[remarkEon]

What is the fitness level of people suffering from the more extreme cases of "long covid"? As in, are they overweight and unhealthy in other ways? Because if that is the case the issue isn't the virus, it's the general health of that population in the first place. That's my gripe about this discussion, because I can never tell, since all I get is anecdotes, if this is a result that's agnostic to body type/fitness. Does any research control for this?

[francisofascii]

Just anecdotal, but there are many fit, marathon runners that have suffered from this, myself included. I had LC for five agonizing months. I think it was because I tried running through some of the mild symptoms that caused me to get this. I don't think I lost my overall fitness, but rather my muscles/cells, etc. lost its ability process oxygen properly. Once I got "better", my ability to run fast returned quickly, like within one or two months.

[remarkEon]

Again, anecdotal, but your story checks out in that fit people who have described LC symptoms are almost always distance runners or very overweight. I'm really curious if there's something there and if the correlation to body-type exists at the tails for some reason.

[whatamidoingyo]

I had chiseled abs. Trained Jiu-Jitsu 2 times per day 5 days per week as well as lifted weights, etc. My diet consisted heavily of fruits, veggies and lean meats. Nothing artificial. Only water, coffee, and an occasional pre-workout.

I lost my sense of smell and taste for ~6 months. Was in bed for 1 week, sleeping like 18 hours per day. Some foods still don't taste the same (mostly eggs and chicken).

This was about 2 days after I got the second dose of Moderna's vaccine.

[thenerdhead]

https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s128...

[Glench]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44432-3

[remarkEon]

Thanks, but this doesn't really address my question. It looks like they took 25 people, and measured some variables before and after exercise post recovery (why such a small sample size? looks like a really easy test to run). I'm not really talking about how covid affects ones ability to exercise. I'm talking about the likelihood of "long covid" appearing in people who are fit and healthy vs not.