It sucks being sick, its really hard to gain weight when you have a cold, you have no appetite, and you just want to sleep all day. The longer you feel sick and the longer you stay out of the gym, the slower your weight gain will be. With my most recent cold, one of the biggest things I did to help kick it was use a sinus rinse a few times a day.

I was at a point with my cold where my sinuses were so inflamed and sore that it felt like my teeth were going to fall out. I couldn’t breathe at all, the last thing on my mind was the gym. That night I went out and bought a “Neti Pot” so I could rinse my sinuses… A co-worker of mine recommended it, and as weird a concept as it seemed I was desperate. (Yes I went to work when i was horribly sick, I need the money haha).

So with this neti pot, you basically pour warm saline solution into one nostril and it comes out the other. Opening up your sinuses and letting them drain in the process. It worked miracles. I used it once at around 7:00pm, and once right before I went to sleep and by the next day I actually felt good enough to get into the gym. IMHO I think if I hadn’t used the neti pot, my sinuses would have gotten worse (or not improved much at all) and I would have been in no mood to get to the gym as fast as I was able too… It probably would have been at least another 24-48 hours before I would have been up to getting into the gym again.

Below is a video of me showing you how to use it. It doesn’t hurt at all, it just feels warm and strange.

This is definitely something I recommend to anyone with blocked up sinuses.

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