your body is going to need energy to recover from the lengthening, if you are training like a bodybuilder your body is going to spend a lot of energy and your recovery is going to be more difficult. I recomend you to allow your body to heal ,you have time to get your muscles back after your lengthening is done.
for lower body: if you were training seriously before the surgery, like doing more than 100kg squats for some reps , or press machine with 250kg , there is no way you are going to maintain the same or nearly the same size during lengthening, but muscles have memory and you could recover quickly after the most important thing ends "your lengthening and consolidation".
i personally recomend to do light exercises for your legs, with very low weight or bodyweight when your doctor allows you.
in my personal experience, i started to train the upper body seriously one month after the end of the lengthening.
Quote from: egocentrical on February 23, 2017, 11:48:40 AMI 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
Yes, I train upper body as well. Only thing that you cannot do is use dumbbells while standing, as this would put more weight on your legs.
There is more energy needed for fracture healing. So if you exercise as well you do need more calories, meaning you need to eat more.
I think I must be at around 6% body fat now, because I was not consuming enough calories to replace by body's need.
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?
Seems reasonable!
I weight 30 kg more than you, and that is why I have to pay so much attention not to put all my weight on my legs.
But your weight makes things much easier!
Just a suggestion-forget about working out until after lengthening, perhaps even consolidation.
I have absolutely no medical research to back me up, but it just seems as though your body's energy would be better spent trying to heal itself rather than on muscle gain/maintenance.
During lengthening I was nearly always either in bed or sitting down, ate about 500-1000 calories more a day than I did before surgery, and I actually lost a little bit of weight. What I'm getting at here is that your body is very 'busy' during this process and needs quite a bit of energy.
You can search youtube for advice on fracture healing and the number 1 advice you will find is to exercise.
Workout does not burn many calories, 1 hour of weight training is maximum 400 calories but it does help in producing growth hormone, testoterone and other good stuff to get your bone healed.
Dr. Guichet recommend doing training fo at least 3 hours per day.
Dr. Monegal says around 2 hours per day of muscle workout and stretching is ideal.
When you say promotes healing - is this with upper body training or doing light excercises for the legs?
yes and buy tons of vitamins and stuff for strong bones.
Quote from: egocentrical on March 13, 2017, 02:44:30 PMWhen you say promotes healing - is this with upper body training or doing light excercises for the legs?
Both.
Quote from: egocentrical on March 13, 2017, 02:44:30 PMWhen you say promotes healing - is this with upper body training or doing light excercises for the legs?
Both.
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