Exercise After Bariatric Surgery in (2023) - To Do or Not To Do?

Why is exercise important after bariatric surgery?

Exercise is vital for every individual whether operated or not, to keep oneself active as well as avoid comorbidities.

With regards to importance post surgery, exercise becomes the most associated treatment after bariatric surgery.

Exercise is one of the tools that will help you reach and maintain your best health after surgery. Being active helps to:

Preserve lean muscle mass and muscle strength
Promote the stability of your joints and enhance the strength of your bones
Improve the elasticity of your skin after bariatric surgery
Continue your weight loss after surgery and most importantly Keeps the weight off
Toning
Prevent from getting loose skin
Another benefit of exercise that is important to so many of my patients is that it helps them further manage some of their co-existing conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, that prompted them to have bariatric surgery in the first place.

What types of exercise are best after bariatric surgery?

Aastha Health Care, a Centre Of Excellence, mainly recommends two kinds of exercises post weight-loss surgery:

Aerobic exercise, such as walking or biking, to get our heart rate up

Strength training, such as lifting weights or doing push-ups, to help us build and maintain muscle and strong bones

Few exercise routines recommended to our patients:

Brisk walking

Walking is a moderate-intensity exercise that can be easily incorporated into our daily life. Brisk walking provides excellent health benefits to pen down.

A few are listed below

Maintain a healthy weight
Burns body fat.
Prevent or manage any heart related ailments
Builds up Bone Mass
Manage Hypertension
Improves Balance
Strengthens Muscles
Improves Endurance

Modified push ups

Push-ups help tone up your entire body and reveal steady and tight arms. Strong, tight arms can be as simple as practising modified push-ups many times. Back exercises can be challenging for some . Hence, Modified push-ups helps in tackling all above when done correctly.

Weight Training:

Weight training not only helps to loose weight, but also helps in toning your body as well as preserving lean body mass.

Swimming:

One of the biggest benefits of swimming is that it truly works on your entire body, right from head to toe. Swimming is an efficient way to burn unwanted calories and lose weight. It also helps to maintain flexibility and act as a stress reliever.

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