I’m 41yo male/6’3"/210 and have been on the SS NLP for about 9 weeks.
I have to have MOHS surgery on my forehead for a basal cell carcinoma next month. My doctor said i shouldn’t touch the weights for two weeks. His fear is that the wound may open back up or bleeding may occur.
So…I was wondering what you guys would advise as I would hate to lose a ton of the progress I’ve made over the past two months or so.
My follow up question would be one of how to handle my nutrition during that time.
So your doctor said you won’t be able to train for 2 weeks after the surgery because of a wound and repair? Are you going to get sutures placed after the excision?
I wouldn’t change nutrition at all in either case, however.
Yes, that’s what he told me. Also yes there will be sutures. So, even if I don’t train for two weeks I should continue eating 3500ish calories a day?
As another follow up, if I don’t train for two weeks. How would you recommend I pick it back up? Maybe drop my weights a set percentage and continue my LP from there?
I’m not sure what the risk of wound dehiscence post MOHS surgery, but it sounds reasonable to me. As far as the dietary intake, yes since you’ll be healing from surgery and are not overweight, I wouldn’t decrease calories.
As far as what to do on the weights, when you come back you’ll workup to a weight where the bar speed slows down for a set of 5, then restart LP there.