Iguinal Hernia

[isodude]

Hello Everyone!

There are few of you that I remember from my last time on...its been a while. Joe Justice....YOU LOOK FANTASTIC!

Well, here I am...maintaining and doing what I can, mainly because I just had surgery on two inguinal hernias (got them from coughing too hard serveral years ago...). Anyway, what's a good recovery from surgery workout...I have ideas, but was wondering how I should get back on the horse....

[JoeJustice]

I do look pretty fantastic, don't I? :glasses-cool::beauty:

:tongue:

Seriously, thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it! Glad to see you back! John and his team updated to a new software a few months back that wasn't compatible with the old board so all of the old posts where lost :sad:

Can you give us an idea of what kind of limitations you have? Or are you fully recovered now just looking to start training again?

-Joe

[ronseo]

I just had an inguinal hernia surgery a few months ago; I had two on one side. I can give you my opinion- you don't want to do any exercise that pressurizes your abs either directly or indirectly. Believe me there are plenty of BW exercises that you may think that aren't affecting your abs, but they are. I had to stop doing M7 during my 6 week recovery.

What I did, starting about 4 days post surgery was heavyhands. If you're not familiar with it, it's walking and pumping light weights- flyes, laterals, overheads, and pumps to shoulder level or above. I would do that 3-4 times a week for about 30-35 continuous minutes.

My doctor/surgeon limited me to lifting a 5# bag of groceries for 6 weeks.

[isodude]

Well, honestly, my limitations are limited. The only thing I can't physically do is bend backwards. I am pretty mobile and able otherwise....I don't feel any tension doing M7's or Iso's....BUT I'm wondering if I run the risk of doing damage to the work. I had the lathroscopic procedure v. the old incision style of surgery. So, my recovery is WAY faster than it would have been otherwise...

So, Joe, where are you in your goals now? You do look fantastic! Send me a personal and tell me more about your p90x experience...

[JoeJustice]

isodude,

Well, I've never had that kind of an operation, so my advice may not be appropriate. But for me, I'm now a big believer in twice a day training for short periods of time. What I started calling my SOFT principals (short, obstinate, frequent, training). I think 20-30 minutes twice a day at where you stubbornly push yourself, is the way to go.

So I'd say go with the M7 in the morning and powercals in the evening. Focusing on push-ups, pull-ups and squats. Personally I've been doing lowerbody in the morning and upperbody in the evening for the past few weeks and really like it.

Another good thing about frequent training is, if you miss a workout because of work or something, it's not that big of a deal because your next workout isn't too far away. So there's neither guilt nor setbacks.

Goals right now? Good question. My goal right now is to do better in my next workout than I did in my last one :)

-Joe

[Kevin Nickerson]

http://www.cycingforums.com t82618htm/ has some good advice in post

[tom]

DVRish stomach tensing, breathing, etc. might be something to offer your doctor.

I certainly would not take any advice from some virtual, anonymous, distant forum group, no matter how good-looking and genius we are.

Tom

[Kevin Nickerson]

Sorry not good at these things http://www.cyclingforums.comt82618.htm/