Seeking Workout Advice

Greetings all, I've been working out at my local Golds Gym for 6 years now. I've done a full range of cardio and lifting but currently I tend to stay with cardio. Last time I was into the lifting my appitite became enormous and I blew out a shoulder that required surgery. I am pre-op lap band. I want to do what ever I can to tighten up to avoid that shriveled up look that many male wls patients seem to have. Currently I spend about and hour on the tread mill and then hang in the steam, shower up and thats it. Yes I have gotten lazy considering I use to lift and do laps in the pool. Since my knees started to bother I stick to low impact like the treadmill. Thanks for any suggestions! Kenny Surgery Scheduled 1/25/06 Waiting for ins approval

Hey Kenny - Earl pretty much said what I would say. Not sure what the recovery is like with Lap since I had the RNY but I would just caution you to proceed slowly and listen to the advice of your surgeon. With RNY I just started out doing light cardio and then worked myself back up to lifting around 5 weeks after. I didn't have any physical hunger for 6 months. Now that it has come back I just make sure I continue to follow through on all those good behavior change like not drinking when I am eating. Now I also have added back in a pre-workout meal an hour before the gym and a post workout shake immediately after. That with following sound healthy eating the rest of the day doesn't leave me phsysically hungry often. Physical hunger was never my big issue anyway.. it was the emotional eating that got me. I'm doing great with that too now though. This really has been both a mental and physical victory for me. Anyway, get back into that lifting! No time like the present to start that now. I'm sure you will do great. Good Luck on your surgery this month! Keep us posted on how it goes.

Thanks for the great feed back Stayce! Tomorrow I will hit the weights. thanks Kenny