So what are your opinions and do you or don't you do it?

 

Personally, if I'm hungover I often go and play 5-aside football or hit the gym.

I find that sweating (exercise) & drinking a lot of water on days when I'm hungover makes me feel much better, a lot quicker than if I just do nothing.

 

As for when I'm sick I don't exercise. I just find that it makes you cough your lungs out and you end up feeling far worse the next day. Rest is the best option.

 

Am interested if anyone else finds it useful for when hangover or sick?

It's actually the water that makes you feel better. When I go out drinking, I make sure to drink water during the night as well, since you get dehydrated while drinking (you go to the bathroom 1,000 times per night, and alcohol doesn't rehydrate you). I have only had one hangover in my life, and that was the night I didn't drink water.

The hardest part on hitting the gym while hungover is getting there. Both your brain and body ache to just lie down and sleep, try to not throw up, and cry. But once I get out of there I feel like a million bucks, as if the day had just started :thumbsup:

Sometimes I will do cardio when I'm sick, to get the juices flowing but nothing too straining on the body.

It's actually the water that makes you feel better. When I go out drinking, I make sure to drink water during the night as well, since you get dehydrated while drinking (you go to the bathroom 1,000 times per night, and alcohol doesn't rehydrate you). I have only had one hangover in my life, and that was the night I didn't drink water.

 

I think exercise helps too.. I'm not an expert, but I view it as an "out with the old, in with the new" kind of process.

I've done my fair share of early morning rowing outings with not much sleep and a hangover, and I can assure you that any sustained race pieces are GRIM hungover. The fresh air can help though, and I find just doing weights is normally okay. It depends on the severity of the hangover though, a dull headache and feeling groggy is manageable. Struggling to put your shoes on because you bending over makes you still feel nauseous and dizzy 12 hours after you stopped drinking is less so.

I've done my fair share of early morning rowing outings with not much sleep and a hangover, and I can assure you that any sustained race pieces are GRIM hungover. The fresh air can help though, and I find just doing weights is normally okay. It depends on the severity of the hangover though, a dull headache and feeling groggy is manageable. Struggling to put your shoes on because you bending over makes you still feel nauseous and dizzy 12 hours after you stopped drinking is less so.

 

Hmm... Might have to sacrifice myself in the name of science this weekend... Any body else?

I don't drink much anymore, but when I did I'd never go when I was puking hungover. Obvious reasons

 

If I'm sick I won't go if it's something I can spread to other people easily

I'd hit the gym or calisthenics, but no running: as my head typically feels like a few litres of cement are sloshing around in there. Once you get a sweat worked up, it's fine: just getting out of bed is the issue.