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Hi. I had my gastric sleeve 4 days ago and have been walking and am anxious to get into the gym. My surgeon told me when I left the hospital no sit ups for 1 year. That blew my mind and I’m working how to get my jiggly belly under control with no sit ups. Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Planks will tighten your core up and don’t have the crunching movement.

Low planks (on your elbows) will engage the core. They seem hard, but just try to hold it for 20 or 30 seconds at a time and then add on time each week until you’re holding them for up to 2 minutes.

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19 minutes ago, tmrtyty2018 said:

That’s great advice. Thanks so much. I will try that!

Never heard that honestly, but any exercise then involving your abs needs to be specifically cleared by your surgeon.

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On 10/06/2018 at 09:26, tmrtyty2018 said:



That’s great advice. Thanks so much. I will try that!


As an aside, you probably should wait until you’re at least a month post-op, or cleared by your surgeon) to do them.

And once you can hold for 2 minutes, you can start modifying them (side planks, up downs from high to low plank etc.) to get more out of them. 😀

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My team says they usually clear people for whatever exercise they want to do after a month. So. Seconding that "don't do planks until you're a month post-op" suggestion.

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Okay makes sense. I wouldn’t want to do anything close to a plank right now anyway. LOL

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I remember when everyone was planking all over YouTube...LOL!

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On 10/6/2018 at 7:56 AM, tmrtyty2018 said:

Hi. I had my gastric sleeve 4 days ago and have been walking and am anxious to get into the gym. My surgeon told me when I left the hospital no sit ups for 1 year. That blew my mind and I’m working how to get my jiggly belly under control with no sit ups. Any suggestions? Thanks!

This is absurd... I was cleared for *ALL* exercises before the 2 month mark... sit ups included. I've also done plenty of weighted crunches, suspended leg lifts etc etc etc. Did you have full open surgery or laparoscopic?

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On 10/6/2018 at 3:36 PM, Ed_NW said:

I remember when everyone was planking all over YouTube...LOL!

You can thank Tom Green for that one LOL

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2 hours ago, Matt Z said:

This is absurd... I was cleared for *ALL* exercises before the 2 month mark... sit ups included. I've also done plenty of weighted crunches, suspended leg lifts etc etc etc. Did you have full open surgery or laparoscopic?

Hey I had laparoscopic surgery. I thought I would be cleared for all exercise after 4 weeks. It’s weird.

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1 hour ago, tmrtyty2018 said:

Hey I had laparoscopic surgery. I thought I would be cleared for all exercise after 4 weeks. It’s weird.

Very weird, did they give you a specific reason? I'm curious if your situation is different in some way, shape or form that would support that very bizarre timeline for sit ups.

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1 hour ago, Matt Z said:

Very weird, did they give you a specific reason? I'm curious if your situation is different in some way, shape or form that would support that very bizarre timeline for sit ups.

Nope no reason. Just part of my discharge instructions when I asked about exercise.

On 10/6/2018 at 9:47 AM, insta_adventurer said:

As an aside, you probably should wait until you’re at least a month post-op, or cleared by your surgeon) to do them.

And once you can hold for 2 minutes, you can start modifying them (side planks, up downs from high to low plank etc.) to get more out of them. 😀

Got it. Thanks!

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Just now, tmrtyty2018 said:

Nope no reason. Just part of my discharge instructions when I asked about exercise.

Got it. Thanks!

SOOOO Weird! I won't tell you to no follow your doctors orders... but pretty much EVERYONE ELSE was cleared for full exercise, zero restrictions, at or around the 2 month Post Op point. If you chose to ignore your doctors advice, just take things slow and stop if it starts to hurt.

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3 minutes ago, Matt Z said:

SOOOO Weird! I won't tell you to no follow your doctors orders... but pretty much EVERYONE ELSE was cleared for full exercise, zero restrictions, at or around the 2 month Post Op point. If you chose to ignore your doctors advice, just take things slow and stop if it starts to hurt.

LOL. I think it may just be my surgeon. He seems to be overly cautious. I’ll go about it at a slow pace. He said my surgery was routine and had no issues so I see no reason why I can’t exercise like everyone else. Thanks!

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