Rugby / Fitness training / Weights ?

I think it can affect me personally. But I tend to push everything in my life to extremes (ok I used to). I am now on a mission to figure out what will work.....how far I can push it......do I have to give up endurance sports? I hope not !

I am so sorry I have no concrete answers. In my case, I have come to believe that any extra intense stress is bad for my disease.....and this is a collective situation. It doesn't present immediately......and because of the "time lapse" I don't realize I am screwing myself over until it's too late and my flare develops.

I now see ANY intense stress as a bad idea (for ME personally---not you guys----I have no idea what's best for you ). This includes emotional stress or allowing my work to become overly stressful.....all of it.

My new passion is meditation and talking about what bothers me. I tend to hold things in. This is a big red flag nowadays. No self abuse, even exercise is a form of self abuse when done too excessively (without proper recovery time allowed).

Just my 10 cents. I am super curious about others thoughts on this though.....it's a work in progress and I feel like a detective, lol.

Hey, no.....I wouldn't draw that conclusion at this early stage if I were you. In fact, weight training seems to elicit much less stress than aerobic exercise does for me. It's self-limiting in that I can only do so much before I get too sore or tired to keep at it.

Where as with aerobic exercise I was running like Forest Gump, lol. Not advisable unless a TON of care is put into developing a sound recovery program (i.e. sprinkling in easy weeks here and there--- and even easy days put into each regular week even).

I think failing to exercise at ALL has it's own inherent risks......exercise when done reasonably is way more productive than not.

If I were you, I'd repeat the exact same things you did prior to the symptoms, but eliminate the fruit.....it could very well have been the fruit and not the rugby !

My plan is to do experiments....but keep an open mind and try and recognize I don't live in a vacuum. And some of this may not lend itself to being 'obvious'....may be more complicated than I try and make it. You know?

Edit: as usual tons of typos

I think the running would cause blood before the weights

I don't believe excercise worsens our UC at all. Certain specific excercises (like ab crunches) might be uncomfortable when we're flaring, i know from experience lol. Kinda like laying on my right-side is uncomfortable while flaring but uncomfortable doesn't equal making my UC worse