Even today, 15 years later, looking at these pictures is still very difficult and leaves us feeling anxious: Miklos Feher from Benfica Lisbon was a Hungarian international player and a gifted soccer player. In a league game, he first smiles at his yellow card due to the time game, and a few seconds later he falls over in front of running TV cameras — cardiac death.
At 24 years old. According to an autopsy, his heart was pre-damaged — an unhealed cold could have been too much.
The fact is: If you play soccer with a cold, you risk a lot.
Because if the viruses spread in the body, there is a risk of heart muscle inflammation. During the wet and cold season, when your noses have to run more than the central midfield again, we want to tell you when you should play soccer with a cold from a health point of view.
We are now taking big steps out of the winter break - and straight into a successful second half. Now it's time to join forces once again to achieve the ambitious goals. But before that comes March. A month in which flu and colds are the order of the day and training participation is as manageable as the audience cut from VfL Wolfsburg.
Specialists describe it as follows:
“If you exercise with the flu or a cold, you're playing roulette with your life. This is because the viruses can infect the heart muscles.”
In plain language, this means that playing intensively during a cold increases the likelihood that a delayed cold will result in heart muscle inflammation. In the worst case, this can result in heart rhythm disturbances. Although most cases of heart muscle inflammation are mild, anyone who does not cure the inflammation and continues to exercise risks their life. Around 5 percent of cases of sudden cardiac death are the result of delayed myocarditis.
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Of course, that doesn't mean that you should take a break with every small cough or that soccer cleats Leave it in the cellar as soon as you sneeze. If you have a harmless cold, continuing to train may have no serious consequences if you feel fit.
However, there are also symptoms that you shouldn't kick the ball under any circumstances: swollen lymph nodes, sore throat and limbs, purulent sputum, elevated temperature, or fever. For example, anyone who wants to play soccer with these symptoms has two stress factors acting on their body — the infection itself and the additional effort from sport.
We too have already played soccer in a physical situation in which we would have had to sit out. In doing so, we certainly do not want to trivialize; rather, we want to express our lack of understanding of our former “I”. It was stupid and lucky. But why is that so?
Football is a team sport and, of course, you fight with your conscience, especially in the threshold situation of an illness. You don't want to let the team down, after all, everyone in the team is important. This leads us directly to social pressure, which applies across the board and not only in soccer.
Whether at work or in sport — we must function. Anyone who shows weakness through illness is stigmatized as indestructible. This is another reason why we use medication and try to get “fit” for the working day or the district league game. Hopeless.
However, you are by no means strong if you bring yourself into the game full of drugs for your team and want to help. You are strong when you pay attention to your body, take the warning signs seriously and prefer to suspend training so that you can play full throttle soccer for the rest of the season. “Miki” Fehér should be a cautionary example for all of us.
We recommend clearly and clearly: As soon as you don't feel well and sickly, you are banned from hard workouts!
During this time, you can either use one of our yoga flows, start a mobility workout, try out our breathing routine, or simply take a complete break.
BY THE WAY: You can find all exercises in the B42 training app — so you can work on the best season of your life for free.
EVEN MORE: In the appointment function, you can simply, quickly and easily tell your trainer that you are ill and need to suspend training. Compared to the risks, this is clearly a more responsible choice.
We wish you a great start to the new week.
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