Mike,
After major surgery, my advice to my clients was to stay off powered machinery for 3-4 weeks - in other words, you want it to be self-powered at this stage... ellipticals are great as tolerated, recumbent bikes are great as tolerated, walking under your own power is great, but I'd give the treadmills a little bit longer.
The point is, if you stop on a treadmill, the treadmill keeps going. If you stop on an elliptical or the bike because they're under your power, it's not a problem. You just don't want something that can tweak your newly healed stitches for a while. I've seen people who walk and run on treadmills and have for years take one wrong step and have to scramble... and had one very experienced gal take all the skin off her face because she got distracted for a second, and took a bad step...fell on her face on the tread.
NO lifting over ten pounds, which you obviously know. It takes six weeks for those inner stitches to heal, so pay attention...
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Lisa M
Lap RNY - 9/26/05
surgery/
lowest/
goal
Weight:
303/
137/
150
BMI:
56/
25.1/
27.4
Now in maintenance stage, with desired weight range: 150-153 pounds
Current weight: 139 Updated 10/21/08
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