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Fitness and Exercise
When you can move again after surgery, how to protect lean mass while you lose weight, and how to start when exercise has never been part of your life.
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- Exercise After Bariatric Surgery: What You Can Do and When Walking starts the night of surgery. Lifting limits run 4 to 6 weeks, and programs disagree on the weight. Here is the real post-op activity timeline, why the restrictions exist, and what the evidence says exercise does for your results.
- Building Muscle After Weight Loss Surgery: Protein, Resistance Training and Lean Mass Pooled data show roughly 8 kg of lean body mass lost in the first year, over half of it in the first 3 months. Here is what resistance training and guideline protein targets can and cannot do about it.
- Exercise When You Are Starting From a Low Baseline For readers with joint pain, limited mobility or no exercise history. What the guidelines say when you cannot meet the guidelines, what the water evidence shows, chair-based options, and how to progress.