Does anyone have any solid information on post surgery strength training exercise?....What I want to know is how many weeks after surgery can you begin strength training exercise?

Good post, I'd like to know the same. I'm sure every surgeon is different. I plan to start at 6 weeks out and just start slow. Anyone else to chime in?

I guess it all depends on your general well-being. I had more or less no pain post surgery and was able to get all my Protein and liquids in.

You can't strength train without proper nutrition, right?

If all the above, I'd say 6 weeks sounds right, maybe even earlier because the lap VSG never had a restriction /wrt lifting or so.

My exercise guy said that you should be careful to not excert yourself during the early few weeks where you have a hard time getting the nutrition you need --- so you really wouldn't want to burn any extra :-)

Thank you, it seems the magic number is six to eight weeks.

Does anyone have any solid information on post surgery strength training exercise?....What I want to know is how many weeks after surgery can you begin strength training exercise?

I am doing strength training. I went to my local gym (Lifetime Fitness) and I got me a metabolic personal trainer to help me build strength and endurance.

This is my current training schedule. All the lbs i have below I started at 25 and we been going up 5-10 lbs a week. I train 4 times a week and the days I am not at the gym I walk 30 minutes at 2.8.

Shoulder press 2 rounds/50lbs at 15 reps

Chest press 2 rounds/35lbs at 15 reps

Lat pull down 2 rounds/50lbs at 15 reps

Row 2 rounds/50lbs at 15 reps

Leg press 2 rounds/140lbs at 15 reps

I do a ten minute warm up walk and 10 minute cool down.

the leg press is my strongest one, and my chest press is my hardest.

I started exercising one month after surgery and I am doing great. I average a 5-7lb weight loss a week and I am building muscle.

I hope this helps.

Wow - I am very impressed with the 50 lbs shoulder press. The shoulder press is by far my weakest, embarrassingly so

I just started to go back to Snap Fitness over the holidays (well, I went twice), and I hope I can keep it up even though it is a pain to try and fit the gym in with a busy work day. I know I need the strength training in addition to cardio, but we have a treadmill and a bike at home and it is so much easier to do that while watching a DVD at home.

Snap offers personal training too, and I was considering just doing a few sessions to learn some safe weight moves I can do at home. Somehow, I am always freaked out that I am going to hurt myself with free weights - and in the past, I did hurt my elbow and my shoulder just from doing a wrong move or using too much weight. I love the Snap Fitness machines, because they naturally restrict the motion to a safe range so that the chance of hurting yourself is lower.

Yup, it is 6-8 weeks to let your internal incisions completely heal. I am awaiting this as we speak....I am 36 days out and I can't wait to get this started! I am not going to push it though....trust me, I almost did and then I thought to myself....do you really want to go through MORE surgery??? NOPE...I don't. I can wait...it will be here soon enough.