{"id":25,"date":"2022-07-02T01:41:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T22:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/?p=25"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:52:20","slug":"working-out-post-cov-any-advice-getting-back-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/working-out-post-cov-any-advice-getting-back-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Working out post-cov, any advice getting back to it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-30s powerlifter here. I caught the cov a month ago and it was rough. Did a workout a week after symptoms cleared and I was hella outta breath real quick! Did an easy session \u2014 squatted half my usual weights, slightly higher volume and I was huffing like crazy mid-set. Anyone else experienced this post-cov? Any advice on how to get back to lifting? I\u2019m sitting here anxious af that I\u2019ve lost most of my gains lol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-30s powerlifter here. I caught the cov a month ago and it was rough. Did a workout a week after symptoms cleared and I was hella outta breath real quick! Did an easy session \u2014 squatted half my usual weights, slightly higher volume and I was huffing like crazy mid-set. Anyone else experienced this post-cov? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fitnessbites.org\/diy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}