How long after LL can you workout upper body?

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Quote from: tilli on September 26, 2024, 12:23:57 PMI had some consultation talks with surgeons and they told me that u can do that as soon as possible - ofc u need to make sure to not affect your legs negatively, for example during travelling to the gym or whatever, but i think that's self explanatory... but working on your chest or shoulders or whatever you can do very soon after surgery, if u can organize it. Maybe u can get some weights and some bench for home.
Can you use leg drive?

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Quote from: jbfjbj4 on September 26, 2024, 03:23:29 PMIn theory you can do it while lengthening.

In practice I did not see a single person at my clinic who continued to workout upper body during the lengthening phase. You're very unlikely to be the exception to that irrespective of what you think you'll be doing now. You'll be too tired, and the actual mechanics of working out makes it borderline impossible unless you have a helper with you, as you won't be able to carry any plates or dumbbells (as you'll need to hold the crutches, and adding more weight to the load the nails have to bear simply isn't a good idea). When you sit down, you'll have to use your hands to take the weight, so forget about using the lat pulldown or any pulling machine for that matter.

All you could really do is machines like the chest press, and have a helper carry dumbbells over to you so you can do seated exercises. You won't be doing it, it's not remotely worth the bother.
can you use leg drive after lengthening?

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Quote from: RandomDude on September 26, 2024, 10:19:41 PMI’m doing precice femur and started working out again on my upper body since 3 weeks post operation. Not an issue at all and actually a great way to keep yourself busy and carries all the health benefits with it as well like cardiovascular health, hormonal health and last but not least, mental health.

I think it’s a great combo while precice femur lengthening as long as you’re careful.
Can you use leg drive?

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Quote from: Manzo56 on September 29, 2024, 09:26:31 AMI don't see why not. I certainly plan to, though as people have pointed out already, you will have to make adjustments. E.g., I usually work with (heavy) dumbells. Obviously, that won't be possible. You would have to use machines mostly, to avoid putting excessive loads onto your legs. Think shoulder press machine, pecs machine. Back should be easier. Lat pull requires your legs for balance, but if you have a weight bearing nail, that should be fine. Maybe the same for cable rows (depending on how heavy you want to go). Pull up bars will be fine and probably the best way to build your back.

What I can say is that you can workout during lengthening, as I am doing it. The best way to do that is using resistance bands. Not only am I allowed, but my doctor and physios even required me to work on my upper body with dumbells, though of course their idea of working out was using very light dumbells (few kgs). That is because you will need upper body strength during lengthening, as you will be relying mostly on it, especially in the beginning. Depending on your fitness level, light dumbells might be enough. But if you want to work out moderately heavily, the bands are the way to go. You can pick a heavy resistance band and work on your chest, shoulders, arms and back. If you search for Youtube videos of wheelchair exercises with resistance bands, you will find plenty.

Now, if you were lifting heavy weights at the gym before, be under no illusion that you won't be able to keep up the same level of intensity (you will lose some muscle mass) but it's still better than doing nothing. Personally, I can tell you the difference between my legs and upper body now, one month into lengthening, is night and day (think Johnny Bravo). My legs have turned into sticks, but thanks to my upper body workouts plus the fact that I have to use my upper body a lot more to compensate for the state of my legs, I am still maintaining a fair degree of upper body muscle mass.

Best of luck with your journey.
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Quote from: jbfjbj4 on October 03, 2024, 06:37:50 PMOnce you take out any free weights and any plates, and keep in mind you can't do any leg work, your options are extremely limited to begin with.

You'll be walking around on crutches if you have a weight bearing nail and you'll be in a wheelchair if not.

Rowing movements will be out as that puts pressure on legs. Lat pulldown is out as you'll need to use your hands to lower yourself into the seated position. Tricep rope - likely not as it's unassisted standing, you'd need someone to hold your crutches while you do it and give them back to you after at the least.  So what exactly is left here? The arm curl machine, the machine you sit-up with to work abs, and chest pressing. That's it. You can do the first one with a dumbbell next to your bed or desk at home and get exactly the same results, you can also do cruches/sit ups at home, so you're really going to the gym just for a chest exercise. Not worth it, and honestly 95% of people aren't even gonna wanna do basic home stuff in a seated position with dumbbells. Everyone SAYS they will but I didn't see a single person actually do it when I was there.
so how long after surgery can i do a full push pull legs workout

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Quote from: tilli on October 08, 2024, 06:29:08 PMI agree with people here saying you can't do a classical bodybuilding workout etc. - that is not what i meant though.. of course you need to find a new way, you are heavily limited and you might need to start doing new exercises that you have never done before. But i hear some people in this thread saying, ah it is not worth any effort, which to me it translates to, "if i can't do 100% i just wont do anything at all" - this makes no sense to me and also highly contradicts what the doctor told me during the consultation. Find your way around ur limitations - sure, perfect hypertrophy might not be what you'll achieve, but just leaning back and losing a big amount of muscles due to that makes zero sense to me. Try to at least keep as many muscles as possible. And even if you can't cover all muscle groups (that will be the case!)... just cover some of them at least
Could i do classic bodybuilding after healing?