Long covid can partly be caused simply by the brain thinking it still actually has it.
Re-training the brain so that it understands that it is actually fine to get back into work / exercising is not at all easy.
I can say this as fact as I have a close friend now (thankfully) getting to the other side of this, having undergone an age of getting themselves on the road to full fitness / recovery.
So you can feel like you are doing really well, then get it like a ton of bricks and literally go backwards by weeks.
Managing 'fitness levels' is part of it, but getting (literally) your head around the fact you are pysically fine is / can be very difficult.
I did post some links to this many pages ago (re-training the brain), It can, and obviously does work.
Dont think you can just go back to normal though if you do have long Covid. It can be and is very debilitating.
Re-training the brain so that it understands that it is actually fine to get back into work / exercising is not at all easy.
I can say this as fact as I have a close friend now (thankfully) getting to the other side of this, having undergone an age of getting themselves on the road to full fitness / recovery.
So you can feel like you are doing really well, then get it like a ton of bricks and literally go backwards by weeks.
Managing 'fitness levels' is part of it, but getting (literally) your head around the fact you are pysically fine is / can be very difficult.
I did post some links to this many pages ago (re-training the brain), It can, and obviously does work.
Dont think you can just go back to normal though if you do have long Covid. It can be and is very debilitating.