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" You&amp;#x27;ve seen that girl at the gym. Heck, maybe you are that girl at the gym. Red-nosed, sniffly, sneezy...and hunched over the elliptical machine. You can almost see her sweating out the germs. But does working out when you&amp;#x27;ve got a cold make you sicker--or help you recover faster?The New York Times recently posed that question to exercise experts. And while research on the topic is scant, there appears to be little harm--and possibly some good!--in working out when you&amp;#x27;re under the weather. One study from Ball State University in Indiana found that people with head colds had the same exercise capacity and lung function as healthy subjects. &amp;quot;I was surprised their overall exercise performance wasn&amp;#x27;t impaired, even though they were reporting feeling fatigued,&amp;quot; lead study author Leonard Kaminsky told The New York Times. In another study by Kaminsky, 34 volunteers were infected with a cold virus--sniff! Sixteen of the subjects were told to rest; the others exercised with their colds. Surprisingly, the researchers found no differences in symptoms--or recovery time--between the groups. People in the exercise group even told researchers that being active made them feel better! It&amp;#x27;s time to come clean: I&amp;#x27;m that girl who goes to the gym when she&amp;#x27;s sick. (Hey, it takes a lot to shake up my routine!) But I definitely dial back on the intensity when I&amp;#x27;m not feeling well--and I bring plenty of antibacterial wipes so I don&amp;#x27;t leave germs on the equipment! Do you stick to your exercise routine when you&amp;#x27;re sick? If so, does it make you feel better? Photo: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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