Dimitri87
Level 4 Valued Member
Hi Guys, this is my first post on the strong first forum . I trained with a kettlebell for aroud 5 years now, but only known StrongFirst since last summer.
I've read the Simple & Sinister(Revised version) and Enter the Kettlebell books and am reading the Quick and Dead at this moment. For my training I was working my way through Simple & Sinister. I was completing the training at 24kg and planning on increasing the weight within a couple of weeks. After Simple is reached the Simple goal. After that I wasn't quite sure to start RoP of Q&D. I had some time to think this through before reaching Simple .
Sad thing is I hurt my back around 6 couple of weeks ago. The doctor said I was due to long days of sitting. For around 6 weeks I visited a physical therapist and only did some light mobility work. No training with kettlebells. Around the end of the 6th week, I noticed a pain in my belly button. Turns out I also have an umbilical hernia. Only it's not severe enough for surgery. So the advice the doctor has given me is, to be carefull with lifting heavy things. But on the other hand, I got the pain when I wasn't training with kettlebells, so that probably wasn't the cause (great chance I have it since birth but only now got a pain because of something). So I can try if the pain doesn't come back. And if it gets worse, I should call back and then we look if surgery is needed.
I was thinking starting back with S&S at 16kg, because it had already been 8 weeks since I last did a S&S training and I have to get back into it, also with my back. But maybe jump back up a bit faster if my body allows it.
Has any of you got any experience training with an umbilical hernia and are there some point I should be carefull with, or maybe exercises I should avoid?
Thanks for the reactions.
I've read the Simple & Sinister(Revised version) and Enter the Kettlebell books and am reading the Quick and Dead at this moment. For my training I was working my way through Simple & Sinister. I was completing the training at 24kg and planning on increasing the weight within a couple of weeks. After Simple is reached the Simple goal. After that I wasn't quite sure to start RoP of Q&D. I had some time to think this through before reaching Simple .
Sad thing is I hurt my back around 6 couple of weeks ago. The doctor said I was due to long days of sitting. For around 6 weeks I visited a physical therapist and only did some light mobility work. No training with kettlebells. Around the end of the 6th week, I noticed a pain in my belly button. Turns out I also have an umbilical hernia. Only it's not severe enough for surgery. So the advice the doctor has given me is, to be carefull with lifting heavy things. But on the other hand, I got the pain when I wasn't training with kettlebells, so that probably wasn't the cause (great chance I have it since birth but only now got a pain because of something). So I can try if the pain doesn't come back. And if it gets worse, I should call back and then we look if surgery is needed.
I was thinking starting back with S&S at 16kg, because it had already been 8 weeks since I last did a S&S training and I have to get back into it, also with my back. But maybe jump back up a bit faster if my body allows it.
Has any of you got any experience training with an umbilical hernia and are there some point I should be carefull with, or maybe exercises I should avoid?
Thanks for the reactions.