First off, I have an inguinal hernia that has penetrated my fascia by about 1cm. It is crucial that my deadlift form is spot on to reduce the risk of injury, therefore I’d really appreciate it if you guys could check it out and give me some cues if anything is off.
The first deadlift starts @0:26
I really focus on hip hinge and keeping the spine in a neutral position.
About the hernia… I know I probably shouldn’t go any further… But I really enjoy deadlifting. Just going through the motion makes me happy. It hasn’t gotten any worse so at this point, I think I can safely add very small increments of weight. As long as I don’t go heavy with the valsava, the intra-abdominal pressure should be minimal. Just enough to support the spine, not to compensate for missing muscle strenght.
Looks good to me. Your back is a neutral position throughout the lift and the bar isn’t swinging in or out as you lift. Sometimes it is hard to tell if someone is engaging their lats fully, so just a reminder, tighten your lats by pretending you are trying to squeeze a tennis ball under your arm pits. You may be already doing it, just hard for me to tell.
Well deadlifting is a sure way to make sure it worse. I think its definitely better to find someway to have that addressed first. Regardless end result is the same. Fix it keep deadlifting. Don’t fix it deadlift and risk making it worse then get surgery.
If the doctor said you have a hernia then it must have already broken through the abdominal wall. Thats kinda the definition of a hernia. Maybe its just not that bad.
FYI a bad hernia can become strangled and lose blood supply and die and you would need a resectioning of your intestine. Not likely just giving you a possible complication.
Or you could have intestine in your scrotum and then have some massive looking balls.
It won’t drop into my ballsack lol so there’s that.
I know what risks there are. Sooner or later, It’ll break if I keep bodybuilding. So I might as well make it break now where I’m still young and my recovery is fast.
I’ve had an umbilical hernia for 5 years or so. It doesn’t hurt so I just live with it. I don’t know how much worse an inguinal hernia is though, or if it’s worse at all.
Yes it protrudes. I can push it back in pretty easy. It’s weird but painless so I’m not planning on getting it fixed unless it starts to cause problems.
