Update
So the only thing that I stopped doing while having CV was working out due to quarantining. Last week was my first week back in the gym. I took it easy because there is not enough info on extreme workouts and recovering from having little to no symptoms. My backround is I have 22 years of weight lifting experience. I never take time off just to let the body rest. The only exception is when sick, injury or on vacation. But due to the years of consistent training, I know how my body responds.
When I go on vacation, I often don't workout. With the exception of Taiwan. Due to the time difference, we're at the gym at 7am. Because retail places dont' open till 11am anyways.
So when I come back from vacay, the usual is that I lose strength. About 5-10% is the normal. But also I lose my endurance. Just warming up, I'm huffing and puffing. And it takes about a week to get the lungs conditioned back to b4 I left for vacay and about 3 weeks to get the strength back. This is why I kind of hate going on vacay. Months of work down the drain. The loss of strength is mainly due to lack of eating. As I stated above in my 1st post, I eat less when not working out.
When I get the sick, I typically lose about 10% strength and it takes me about 5-6 weeks to get back to where I was b4 getting sick. Same huffing and puffing when just warming up. Again, strength loss due to not eating and the body healing.
So now on to CV. This time it's out of the normal. I was not huffing and puffing during warm ups, like when coming back from vacay or being sick. Which is good cause my O2 reading was normal anyways. Strength is down 10-15%. But I am taking it very slow. I don't want to hurt myself by going hard too fast,, and the unknown of how CV reacts to working out. Also what is out of the norm, I'm not huffing and puffing during warm ups. And the negatives feel way heavier than normal. So when doing a bench press, when you lower the bar to your chest, that's the negative force. Then pushing the weight off your chest is positive force. Same neg/pos goes with other exercises as well. This is very out of the normal, as in never happened b4. The negs are always easier than the pos. So to feel the negs being way harder and the pos force being explosive and easier is very strange.
I did stop my creatine once I tested pos and took 10 days off before taking it again. When I do cycle off creatine and start up again, it takes about 2 weeks for it to be in my system and working. I can feel the difference on and off of it. 10 days is enough time to lose "creatine saturation" for myself. So last week was my first week back and back on creatine, I felt like it was still in my system. The normal is when off creatine, after the first set of the first exercise, I notice a huge decline in performance. But not this time. So it's like I never stopped taking it. I have done many cycles in the past 20 years, so I know how my body responds to it.
I know that I lost weight, prob due to not eating because all my clothes feel baggier. Appetite is back due to training again.
Other than that, there is no physical difference pre covid and now. What I am struggling with is maintaining my cleanliness. I went thru all this trouble to avoid catching covid, and still caught it. Refer to 1st post. I'm almost at the point of fuck it.
I still feel that I was lucky and it could have been way worst even though I am low risk. Shit happens that's why.