out of sheer curiosity, why is that?
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It’ll definitely be 12 months of development work in the gym.
But a lot of that work is just getting back to baseline.
Surgery hits you for 6, and he will take a lot of steps back, before he can start taking steps forward.
Don’t expect he’s gonna be back in 12 months with a heap of additional size.
Prehabilitation. Strengthening surrounding structures, maintenance. He’ll be able to do plenty of stuff in a “straight” back to front plane, but not twisting.
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And isn’t that focused on muscle mass in the injured leg, to counter unavoidable wastage? People seem to think he should take the opportunity to add 10 or so kg of overall muscle and transform into a beast, but isn’t increased body weight a risk factor for re-injury (more stress through the joint with any running, jumping-landing, eventual agility work etc)?
Yes to the first, no to the second.
Yeh he’s gonna lose a bunch of muscle post op. And it takes a lot of time to get the muscle size, strength and power of that leg just back to parity with the other side.
He should come back stronger than before, but it’s not anything like to the extent of what was being suggested.
Increased weight would be a risk factor for re-injury if he was just getting fat definitely, if he was just focussed on upper body size then yeh sure. But if increased weight also comes with increased strength/power in the lower body then no. Power:weight would be the more important number and if he’s improving that then it will be more protective from injury.
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