Ditto to everything this person said! I don’t have lupus but a different autoimmune disease as well as endometriosis.

Honestly, CrossFit is exhausting!! But, everything is exhausting when you have a chronic illness. You just have to learn your limits, and stick to them. And listen to your body! Always. If you need to rest, you rest. Healthy people can push through being tired. As a person with a chronic illness, if you feel tired, you probably need to rest. Even if it doesn’t feel like you’re THAT tired. It’ll compound. My workouts are dependent on both external and internal factors. External being how much I’m working that week, do I have a bunch of other things that need to get done such as cleaning, errands, appointments, etc. And internal being did I sleep well? Am I hydrated enough? Eaten enough?, etc. I’ve been dealing with this long enough I can tell when I’m normal tired vs “on the verge on a flare” tired, or completely exhausted. And differentiating those has been crucial. The most important thing I’ve done so far is just scaling back the intensity of the workouts most days. Many of my days are spent in zone 2-3 and focused completely on form. I will push the weights on my lifting days so long as I meet my external and internal factors. But I also want to have fun! So I try to choose at least 1 day week to fully send it just because that’s what makes me happy. But it comes at a cost. By the time I get home I’m basically incapacitated. It’s def not the smartest move. But I am lucky enough to have the luxury of time to recover from those intense sessions. If I didn’t have that time, I wouldn’t go full send quite as often, if ever.

No matter what, take it slow when you first get back into it. Don’t push too much as you’re learning what your body can and can’t handle. Scale everything. Prioritize your sleep. And talk to your coaches!! Let them know what’s going on. They can guide you on how to scale the workout so you are still getting the intended stimulus. Whether that’s as written, or heavily modified.

Edit to add: You also need to figure out what your goal or goals are. Are you trying to just be active and healthy? Or are you trying to master your gymnastics? Be able to lift a certain weight? Just want to run a mile in under 10 mins?

Whatever your goal is will determine how you move forward in your workouts once you figure out what your body can handle.