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Originally Posted by erco
hawt.
Are you weight limited by the neck harness/neck strength or dip strength? I'm gonna guess your neck...
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It is still limited by the risk of the cut from the surgery ripping open. I still have to be very cautious with putting pressure on my abs. The 12,5kg hanging from my head and swinging arround didn't affect my abs. So next time I gonna up the weight. But I need to take it step by step. The cut ripping open would throw me back 3 months in my recovery. And I now have only 7 more weeks to go before I can start training my abs again and then start doing DEAdlifts, Squats and all the other funstuff again.
The surgeon says "don't lift more than 3 kg" after the surgery until it is fully healed.
But of course the important thing is which muscles do the work and where the pressure goes.
This is why I can use more than 20 times the allowed weight in the benchpull without affecting my abs at all. But if you push your body to failure with any weight you do what? - You flex every muscle in your body to grind out another rep. And that is something I should avoid for now.
So at the moment my training is very pussified. I focus on relaxing my abs and not pushing myself too far. I have to completelly change those patterns once I start lifting for real again.
But I already notice that I can flex my abs just sitting there without causing any pain at all. 3 months is when the cut of the average patient is fully healed. I am not average in that I am young and do lots of sports and have done lots of sports all my life.
Still I won't lift anything heavy untill the 3 months are over as I can't look inside my body and tell when it is healed. So I better play safe.
27/03/08 
