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i was wondering if any of you have lifted weight while undergoing lengthening/consolidation. Of course leg workouts aren't doable. But what of arm and upper body work outs? I'd like to be able to maintain my strength there even while lengthening.

[LLprime3]

If you can do that it's beneficial because of the blood circulation.

Just keep one thing in mind. If you do something like push ups, even though it's not a leg exercise, there will be pressure weighing on the legs horizontally, and that can be dangerous, if your legs have not fully consolidated, or you don't have weight bearing nails.

[Legs890]

It's theoretically possible but in reality it's impossible unless you have a carer/PT with you.

Your main problem is, how are you going to load the bars with weights when you need to use both your arms for crutches? You can't standing lift dumbells from the rack as that'll add more weightbearing on your nails, and if you want to lift them sat down you have the same issue as how you get the dumbbells over to your seated position anyway.

Pull ups/chin ups are totally out as you can't be 'crashing' back to the floor on the nails so no commercial gym pull up bar will be suitable as it'll be too high up. Lat pulldowns, well the issue is you need to use your arms to lower yourself onto the bench, but you also need your arms to grab the pulldown bar as you descent - so in reality that's impossible too.

Long story short: unless you hire someone to load the weights for you and bring dumbbells to your seating area, you won't be doing any weightlifting whatsoever unless you can bring your wheelchair to the gym (because then you can carry the plates on your lap, although personally I still wouldn't bother). Doing anything on crutches is totally out and the amount of effort it takes to get a wheelchair to a commercial gym...yeah trust me, you won't be doing it, no matter how 'driven' and a special snowflake with massive willpower you think you are, it just simply won't be happening.

[harsismobi]

It's theoretically possible but in reality it's impossible unless you have a carer/PT with you.

Your main problem is, how are you going to load the bars with weights when you need to use both your arms for crutches? You can't standing lift dumbells from the rack as that'll add more weightbearing on your nails, and if you want to lift them sat down you have the same issue as how you get the dumbbells over to your seated position anyway.

Pull ups/chin ups are totally out as you can't be 'crashing' back to the floor on the nails so no commercial gym pull up bar will be suitable as it'll be too high up. Lat pulldowns, well the issue is you need to use your arms to lower yourself onto the bench, but you also need your arms to grab the pulldown bar as you descent - so in reality that's impossible too.

Long story short: unless you hire someone to load the weights for you and bring dumbbells to your seating area, you won't be doing any weightlifting whatsoever unless you can bring your wheelchair to the gym (because then you can carry the plates on your lap, although personally I still wouldn't bother). Doing anything on crutches is totally out and the amount of effort it takes to get a wheelchair to a commercial gym...yeah trust me, you won't be doing it, no matter how 'driven' and a special snowflake with massive willpower you think you are, it just simply won't be happening.

gym copers think that if they dont liftmaxx for a week all their “hard work” will turn into mush

imagine dropping 50k++ for the most important surgery process in their lives and still thinking that they should find a way to liftmaxx besides all the hassle of pt, and all the daily activities which are now 20x harder and more exhausting than before

[Legs890]

gym copers think that if they dont liftmaxx for a week all their “hard work” will turn into mush

imagine dropping 50k++ for the most important surgery process in their lives and still thinking that they should find a way to liftmaxx besides all the hassle of pt, and all the daily activities which are now 20x harder and more exhausting than before

Yep, never met anyone during my lengthening who kept up at the gym during distraction - not one.

Reality is the sheer inconvenience of getting into/out of a taxi using a wheelchair is bad enough to scrap the idea altogether, plus when you're there a lot of stuff can't even be done, and that's if the gym is even appropriate for a wheelchair, most aren't as they either have steps or the machines are just too close together to make navigation with a chair easy.

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It's theoretically possible but in reality it's impossible unless you have a carer/PT with you.

Your main problem is, how are you going to load the bars with weights when you need to use both your arms for crutches? You can't standing lift dumbells from the rack as that'll add more weightbearing on your nails, and if you want to lift them sat down you have the same issue as how you get the dumbbells over to your seated position anyway.

Pull ups/chin ups are totally out as you can't be 'crashing' back to the floor on the nails so no commercial gym pull up bar will be suitable as it'll be too high up. Lat pulldowns, well the issue is you need to use your arms to lower yourself onto the bench, but you also need your arms to grab the pulldown bar as you descent - so in reality that's impossible too.

Long story short: unless you hire someone to load the weights for you and bring dumbbells to your seating area, you won't be doing any weightlifting whatsoever unless you can bring your wheelchair to the gym (because then you can carry the plates on your lap, although personally I still wouldn't bother). Doing anything on crutches is totally out and the amount of effort it takes to get a wheelchair to a commercial gym...yeah trust me, you won't be doing it, no matter how 'driven' and a special snowflake with massive willpower you think you are, it just simply won't be happening.

The place I'm planning on going will have personal assisstants 24/7 so having someone get me dumbells shoudln't be an issue.

[guy_incognito]

I pretty much started lifting on the 3rd day post op. Going to the gym would be mighty difficult, but I have a few sets of dumbbells at home. The workouts are decent, however a lot depends on if the pain allows it.

[GrowGrow123]

I started weight lifting 2 months after surgery. Upper body only of course. By then I was like 6 / 8 cm lengthened