I'm curious to see if anyone who has

Lap Band does any type of martial arts.

If so I have some questions!

What's your martial arts?

Did you train before you had surgery?

How long did you wait until you went back?

Did you feel any different?

I've been training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for about a year now

but can no longer for another two months because I can not

do any adomonal workouts and a lot of the time in BJJ your

adomonals are crunched together. So, I started MMA today

actually. My doctor said I could go back to working out in

three weeks... so I did! Everything went basically well. Just

this one point of streching my port area felt weird so I stopped

for about five minutes just to make sure everything was alright

and it seemed good. I can also tell the difference in my running,

just losing several pounds makes running so much easier!!

If you have been healed for three months, I would advise you

to join a Jiu Jitsu class. In an hour you can roughly burn 900

calories. It's what I like to call an actual "working" work out.

Haha. :blushing:

I would love to train in mma, but I live out in the country and it is a pretty good drive to the closest instructor. I have a heavy bag and a set of focus mitts to work on my boxing skills. I would like to learn more about the ground game though.

hey toofattofight, how is your jiu jitsu coming along? i've trained for a year before my surgey, today is my 8 week anniversary from surgery and i want to get back in the gym but just afraid of the consequences with my port. have you had any complications?