Hernias! What is your thoughts?

[BAK]

I am 6'1 205. I am coming off a triple hernia a year ago. Not sure if it was hereditary. Fucking weird but I had a femoral, inguinial, and umbilical hernias. I feel good now, just have to breathe correctly, wear a belt and use slow controlled motion on lifts and abs. Feel good though and now lifting for about 2 months. What are your thoughts and opinion on lifting and ab exercises. i have developed some small love handles because i have not been doing abs. please assist me if you can...

bak

[JOEYZ]

Originally Posted by BAK

I am 6'1 205. I am coming off a triple hernia a year ago. Not sure if it was hereditary. Fucking weird but I had a femoral, inguinial, and umbilical hernias. I feel good now, just have to breathe correctly, wear a belt and use slow controlled motion on lifts and abs. Feel good though and now lifting for about 2 months. What are your thoughts and opinion on lifting and ab exercises. i have developed some small love handles because i have not been doing abs. please assist me if you can...

bak

Damn bro...............Femoral, Inguinaial and Umbilical hernias? That sucks! How did you end up with all of these? Umbilical hernais usually occur in kids most commonly. I dont know that I would do a bunch of abs if I were you. If you had only had an Inguinaial hernia then I would maybe consider it due to it being more around the pelvic region, but the others are more in line with what area you are going to be stressing. Im not going to act like a hernia expert becasue Im not,lol................I have mainly just delt with Hiatal Hernias in my field. What did your doc say aside from what you have already told us? Did they say anything about putting stress on abdominal muscles or precations? Did all of this come from weightlifting or other things? I will dig up some info and post in in the articles section if I can find anything good.

[JOEYZ]

I found a few decent sites with info..........here is one: How long does... Im sure that you have all of this memorized by now, but others might find some of it interesting. As for the ab workouts, most of the info that I could find didnt go one way or the other. A lot of the doctors said that by strengthening the three layers of abdominal muslces the changes of re-injury might decrease and then again they might increase. They suggested to try it for a few weeks at a slow pace and see how you feel.

[BAK]

they just say what all docs would say. don't lift so heavy, etc... the hernias in the groins where in early early stages, but the umbilical was from stress i think. the others they said i should have fixed seeing i was going under and keep it to one surgery. i waited a year to touch any weights, and now been lifting for about 2 months. i will keep the ab exercises to bare minimum. maybe start with just like 3 set of 20-25 depedning on the exercise. let me know what you find out.

bak

[Nemo9]

I had my third inguinal hernia operated on about two years ago. They used the mesh and I was back playing hockey (which uses abs a lot) in 3 weeks. Unless your surgery was messed up, you should be back to at least as good as normal (after all, you were exercising all those years with weaknesses in the muscles you didn't know about).

Still, if you're worried, take it slow.

[BAK]

yes i still haven't incorporated abs in the program yet. i figure the intense workouts i do will keep the gut in check and somewhat flat. i will start the slow routine of abs here soon with about 3 sets all different exercises and see how it goes for a month or so.

thanks

bak

[Naughty Nurse]

What more is there to say? Just take it slow and see how you feel.