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ok so let me start off by saying before my surgery i was very active i played football for a good part of my life, was into gym lifting weights and started boxing was introduced to cross fit last year and had a blast!! due to past injuries i had to leave the gym and thats when my weight gaining started! but had my surgery to avoid a possible hernia surgery on my l4 l5 disk so been out of surgery 20 days now and was wondering o pick up my boxing routine atleast the cardio part of it. but not sure if jumping rope is allowed yet but wondered if anyone here has experience with this and if atleast working the heavy bag is ok because im kinda scared about actually being hit in the stomach and dying jeje

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I started back boxing a month after surgery. I to was athletic prior to gaining weight. Ive been boxing after the surgery for almost 10 months now. I spar and compete. No stomach injuries or anything like that. It will blast the weight off i will tell you that!

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I started back boxing a month after surgery. I to was athletic prior to gaining weight. Ive been boxing after the surgery for almost 10 months now. I spar and compete. No stomach injuries or anything like that. It will blast the weight off i will tell you that!

thanks for the info because i was really worried about ever being hit in the stomach again but i guess with time its pretty safe in what ¨safe enough¨is cant wait for my third week check up hopefully doc clears me for rope and bag training

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I do MMA, so both BJJ and boxing/kickboxing. I was concerned about missing practice, so it was a major question before surgery about how long I had to be out. My doctor cleared me for 5-6 weeks post-op and last week at my 2 week follow-up he said going back in 5 weeks was fine. I was also concerned about getting hit in the stomach and he said that the chance for injury is the same as it was before. By 5 weeks our stomachs have healed to a point that a little normal trauma (like a nice punch to the gut) won't hurt us anymore than it would have in the past.

If you want to start slow, do a few bag rounds until you're comfortable. I notice now at three weeks that when I pivot, I can still feel a little bit of a pulling near my biggest scar, so I assume that if I give it the full 5 weeks, there shouldn't be any issues by then. I don't plan to hop into sparring my first day back though, so take it at a pace you're comfortable with. :)

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I do MMA, so both BJJ and boxing/kickboxing. I was concerned about missing practice, so it was a major question before surgery about how long I had to be out. My doctor cleared me for 5-6 weeks post-op and last week at my 2 week follow-up he said going back in 5 weeks was fine. I was also concerned about getting hit in the stomach and he said that the chance for injury is the same as it was before. By 5 weeks our stomachs have healed to a point that a little normal trauma (like a nice punch to the gut) won't hurt us anymore than it would have in the past.

If you want to start slow, do a few bag rounds until you're comfortable. I notice now at three weeks that when I pivot, I can still feel a little bit of a pulling near my biggest scar, so I assume that if I give it the full 5 weeks, there shouldn't be any issues by then. I don't plan to hop into sparring my first day back though, so take it at a pace you're comfortable with. :)

great info and insight thank you very much this was a concern for me but your info was very enlightening thank you so much and good luck with your bjj and mma i might want to jump into that some day looks like fun

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