Workout plus LL?

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Planning to get LON this year - either tibia or femur (yes i know femur is painful, but proportion wise and money wise would suit me so much better).

I also don't want to stop working out, i know that i'd be able to do a few weight training exercises as it involves laying down however with legs ... i don't want to be the guy that's all upper body strength and no legs although in my mind i know this is likely going to happen.

Has any body here done light training on their legs that isn't stretching so that overall you only lose a little muscle as opposed to a lot?

or do i have to suck it up and accept ill lose all my muscle in my legs.

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have you done LL though - can you actually vouch why?

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I read on the old forums though  of some guy taking dumbbells to work out - not necessary legs more of do you think there is a way to minimize muscle loss?

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Well I already have chicken legs so, I guess I'll just focus on legs more these upcoming months before I start my journey - as for upper body I have a bench and Dumb bells at home so aspect I can atleast keep up some maintenance - I wonder if the guy named "bodybuilder" on this forum has any input since he is quite open about being well built.

So if I did gain muscle and then lose it - is it easier to gain back due to being conditioned in training? I've heard that it's easier to gain back muscle after loss if you were muscular in the past. Any truth to this?

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I understand that it will be a long time before you can train hard - in not speaking in terms of carrying on gaining muscle while doing LL. I'm more looking into minimizing the effects or exploring options - such as walking with a walker/crutches to keep legs active, resistant bands - stretching etc. So if someone said "I noticed that if I walked 20 mins a day assisted this helped slow down muscle loss". Workout is a lose term in this circumstance.

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Why would conservative lengthening help? I assumed if you could say lengthening at 2mm a day (just theroy) that you could theoretically finish sooner so lose less? I don't mind if I'm wrong, I just like preparing.

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Makes sense, also I wasn't saying I was going to - I was just using it as example for fast lengthening over conservative lengthening.

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Again - I never said that was my goal ... I said I was using it as an example for fast vs slow lengthening and which if supported would help with muscle loss ... I not once suggested or hinted this is what I plan to do?

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I think I will be doing what you are doing, I was wishing to purchase a exercise bike as once I go through with this I will be at home alot and in that time I may aswell try my best to do everything physically to the limit to improve myself - have you been doing upper body training? Does this in anyway translate into hurting below the waist? Eg bench press - you still have to position and balance yourself so there must be some transfer of weight - alongside seated upper body training - does the weighing down on the pelvic bone hurt more due to the tension of the muscle in the legs etc

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In no way am I a bodybuilder - i weight 54.2kg I'm super skinny, so the weight in training with is already light to begin with - its that I know in skinny and don't want to ideally become skinner, I'm planning to digest around 2500-3000 calories a day and increase this during lengthening as needed while doing light weight upper body training and when possible, walking and cycling with light weight resistant bands - seem reasonable?