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After Being Sick

A two-to-three-week return plan after flu, a virus, a lingering cold, or time in bed. It starts with basic recovery, adds short walks in week two, then brings back the previous plan at half its former size when walking feels easy.

or get coached through it

Give yourself two to three weeks to return in order and notice when the pace is too fast.

Return Schedule

Move forward only when the current step feels steady.

How It Works

BodyBuddy follows your recovery signals instead of asking you to push through.

Steady Basics

Do not add movement until sleep, water, and three real meals have been steady for three days.

Morning Check

The morning after each walk, tell BodyBuddy whether you feel better, the same, or worse.

Shorten If Worse

If you feel worse after a walk, make the next walk shorter rather than skipping it.

Build Slowly

When walks feel like nothing, restart your old plan at half size and grow it one notch every few days.

Recovery Basics

These are the practices that carry the first two weeks.

Week 1

Week 2

How BodyBuddy works

  1. 1Start the plan.
  2. 2BodyBuddy texts you every day to keep you on track.
  3. 3Actually finish what you started.

What the texts feel like

Week 1 · getting steady

Today 7:42 AM

Week 2 · the slip

Today 7:42 AM
week 2 morning check, how do you feel after yesterday's walk?
Pretty wiped out, like I got ahead of myself.
heard, the next walk is shorter and tomorrow we check again
Later
did the tired feeling ease at all today?

Old plan · the return

Today 7:42 AM
last stop, do walks feel easy enough to restart at half?
Yeah, finally, though I'm a little nervous about overdoing it.
fair, half is plenty and tomorrow we see how it landed
Later
how did that first half-size return actually feel?

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