How do you have the stamina?
If you work out moderately within the limits of your energy, you won't lose all your fitness. It takes less work to maintain fitness than to gain it so just doing what you can do without pushing it should be fine.
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As other posters have said, 7 weeks is still very early. You are probably still carrying a lot of weight. As the weight comes off, it will take less energy to move your body, which will help. As time goes by, you will be able to take in more calories too.
I didn't "combat" it at 7 weeks. At 7 weeks, I was still just walking and doing some weight lifting and some time on an exercise bike. I was so worried about dehydration that I felt it was better to take it a little too easy than risk winding up back in the hospital. There is always time to rebuild some of your lost stamina and fitness levels later, but a stay in the hospital for dehydration will definitely set you back.
It wasn't until about 3 or 4 months out and 50 pounds lighter that I started having the energy to run.
At this stage, you are probably seeing your surgeon or nurse practioner very often, and I would ask them what you can do to increase your energy levels.
I didn't "combat" it at 7 weeks. At 7 weeks, I was still just walking and doing some weight lifting and some time on an exercise bike. I was so worried about dehydration that I felt it was better to take it a little too easy than risk winding up back in the hospital. There is always time to rebuild some of your lost stamina and fitness levels later, but a stay in the hospital for dehydration will definitely set you back.
It wasn't until about 3 or 4 months out and 50 pounds lighter that I started having the energy to run.
At this stage, you are probably seeing your surgeon or nurse practioner very often, and I would ask them what you can do to increase your energy levels.
I have a two month checkup with them next week, looking forward to it.
My problem is that I have to run a ten minute mile by June 4th to qualify for black belt candidacy - something I have been working towards for three years. I need to make that time just to be considered, then I have a whole nine months of other physical obstacles to get through before the actual black belt test.
I have already accepted that it may not happen this year and I just need to focus on losing the weight.
My best time since I started trying to run again was 11:12. I still hold out hope I could shave that 72 seconds off and get in under the wire to be considered.
I did lay off exercising completely (except for walking) for the first four weeks because I had a considerable amount of pain in my left belly, and I am still not cleared for pushups, situps, or ab work per my doctor. Also not cleared for sparring and getting "thrown" in karate class which makes perfect sense to me.
I'll just keep on trucking. I really hope to be where you guys at at someday.
My problem is that I have to run a ten minute mile by June 4th to qualify for black belt candidacy - something I have been working towards for three years. I need to make that time just to be considered, then I have a whole nine months of other physical obstacles to get through before the actual black belt test.
I have already accepted that it may not happen this year and I just need to focus on losing the weight.
My best time since I started trying to run again was 11:12. I still hold out hope I could shave that 72 seconds off and get in under the wire to be considered.
I did lay off exercising completely (except for walking) for the first four weeks because I had a considerable amount of pain in my left belly, and I am still not cleared for pushups, situps, or ab work per my doctor. Also not cleared for sparring and getting "thrown" in karate class which makes perfect sense to me.
I'll just keep on trucking. I really hope to be where you guys at at someday.
I know for me my doctor had me restricted to walking ONLY for 8 weeks. It was after this period that I was cleared for other activity. Big Kudos for staying with your Karate during this period but remember that you MUST heal, and sometimes that means we have to take it easy in other areas.
Like most everyone else at 7 weeks I was walking and it has taken me a lot of work and training to get to where I am which is still pretty far from where I would like to be, but this is a slow process and one that is worth taking the time and doing it right. THe last thing you want to happen is to over exert yourself and possibly hurt yourself, be it a physical injury or dehydration or something else.
Having 2 boys in Karate (ATA TaeKwonDo) I know what it means to test for black belt, my 9 year old is 3 tests away (6 months) from recommended black belt, but I know for my sons school while the focus is black belt they also stress that it isn't the end of the journey and it only gets harder as you move through the degrees of Black Belt. It may be worth considering that maybe you take this time and focus on your health. The start you are on there is no doubt that you won't make black belt when your body is ready. You have spent years training in your martial art to get to the stage you are at, the same is true with your overall health and fitness.
To answer your question about my Karata, again I go to the same ATA school as my sons and well I originally committed to starting classes when I reached 220. Needless to say that didn't happen and ended up starting at around the 250 mark. My uniform used to be tight and now it is like a tent.
Just an FYI Thursday I test for my Camo decided (which will be my 5th belt including white)
Like most everyone else at 7 weeks I was walking and it has taken me a lot of work and training to get to where I am which is still pretty far from where I would like to be, but this is a slow process and one that is worth taking the time and doing it right. THe last thing you want to happen is to over exert yourself and possibly hurt yourself, be it a physical injury or dehydration or something else.
Having 2 boys in Karate (ATA TaeKwonDo) I know what it means to test for black belt, my 9 year old is 3 tests away (6 months) from recommended black belt, but I know for my sons school while the focus is black belt they also stress that it isn't the end of the journey and it only gets harder as you move through the degrees of Black Belt. It may be worth considering that maybe you take this time and focus on your health. The start you are on there is no doubt that you won't make black belt when your body is ready. You have spent years training in your martial art to get to the stage you are at, the same is true with your overall health and fitness.
To answer your question about my Karata, again I go to the same ATA school as my sons and well I originally committed to starting classes when I reached 220. Needless to say that didn't happen and ended up starting at around the 250 mark. My uniform used to be tight and now it is like a tent.
Just an FYI Thursday I test for my Camo decided (which will be my 5th belt including white)
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First 5K 9/27/20 46:32 - 11 weeks post op (PR 28:55 8/15/11)
First 10K 7/04/2011 1:03 First 15K 9/18/2011 1:37
First Half Marathon 10/02/2011 2:27:44 (PR 2:24:35)
First Half Ironman 9/30/12 7:32:04
I also got into karate because my children were in it, and my husband got his black belt in 2007. Since he is an instructor, I get to go to classes, tournaments and camps for free while working on it, so its kind of an extra incentive to train.
I do hope I can make 2011-2012 the year I get my black belt; but if I can't, I can't. I am at 217 now and I am 5'10. I'd say I have about 60 more pounds to lose easily, and I hope that makes the running easier. There is a whole lot of other things I have to be able to do prior to the week of testing, but I basically have from now until September to prep myself for that. In September I'll be six months out from surgery. When I started karate I was 260 pounds; so I can only hope it will be easier. We'll see. If I don't make it this year, there is always 2013!
I do hope I can make 2011-2012 the year I get my black belt; but if I can't, I can't. I am at 217 now and I am 5'10. I'd say I have about 60 more pounds to lose easily, and I hope that makes the running easier. There is a whole lot of other things I have to be able to do prior to the week of testing, but I basically have from now until September to prep myself for that. In September I'll be six months out from surgery. When I started karate I was 260 pounds; so I can only hope it will be easier. We'll see. If I don't make it this year, there is always 2013!
It is just amazing how different the instructions are from the doctors and how people feel. My doctor gave me the okay for full exercise at my 6 week check-up and I got the okay to go back to karate just after 2 weeks although I took it easy the first couple of weeks back. The only thing the doctor didn't want me to do was start running. She told me that it would be to hard on my joints until I lost more weight. So I don't run but walk 3 miles at least 4 days a week. I seem to have a lot of energy most days and can handle working all day and 2 hours of karate most nights. I am eating about 850 calories a day, 80 grams of protein and drink a ton of water. I am also looking at candidate training starting in a couple of weeks and am scheduled for my black belt test in October of this year. Just keep up the good work, train hard and everything will fall into place.
You are at about the same calories and protein as I am. I just don't have the energy you do, lol. Karate class generally starts and 6 and by about 7:15 I am DONE - can't focus and so tired. To be considered for voting for black belt candidacy; I have to run the ten minute or less mile and do five minutes of jump rope and 100 pushups and 100 situps by June 4th. I don't know if that will be this year for me or not. I had hoped so; but seeing as how its less than five weeks away I am just not sure.
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