Weight lifting and cardio 1 month after upper Smart Lipo, 2 weeks after lower? (Photo)

Cardio is aimed at fat burning. Guess which fat burns first in the first 3 months after a BBL. That's right. No cardio or dieting for 3 months after a BBL unless you want it to evaporate. Weight training and stretching are OK.

I allow my patients to lift 3-6 weeks after treatment.  Compression, massage and RF treatments help influence the results.  Best, Dr. Emer.

I encourage all of my patients to move and exercise as much as possible after liposuction. In your case, however, you had fat transferred to the buttock area, which you don't want to loose. If you expend calories exercising, make sure that you increase your caloric intake to avoid losing the transferred fat. Stretching and toning will help improve your final result.

Hi and thank you for your question. In my opinion I suggest doing whatever exercise you feel comfortable with doing. If it starts to hurt, don't do it. I encourage my patients to get up and walk the same day of surgery, increasing the walking as much as they can to slowly getting back into exercise, usually cardio is the best option for swelling purposes but as you feel better you may absolutely get back into lifting weights. I would say hold off on the heavy weights and be reasonable but it is great that you are in the mindset of keeping the body you have post surgery. Best regards, Dr. Berger

The great thing about smartlipo is that you can get back to normal very quickly.  We encourage our patients to resume normal activities including exercise as soon as they can tolerate it.  Exercise will help your swelling resolve faster and improve your results.

i don't think weight lifting will cause any problems after Smartlipo provided you wait 5 days. some patients find things like running, where you are bouncing too sore after 5 days and need to wait until they are 10-14 days. however, i don't think they will do any harm. Other patients of mine start running at 5 days - first 3 minutes are sore and then it is fine. weight lifting is fine. good luckdavid berman md