Weight Gain due to stress after a injury.

Last Sept I was injured during the taping of the TV program Pro's vs Joe's. I blocked a basketball shot and came down sideways on my knee. I heard a crunch and I felt like my leg came apart at the knee. Which it basically did. I knew instantly something was wrong, bad wrong. I jumped on a plane and flew back to my home town of Phoenix AZ. Where my doctors confirmed that I had torn my ACL, MCL, Meniscus, and damaged the cartilage at the ends of my bones. That is about as bad as you can you injury a knee.

I waited a few months to have the surgery so that the swelling could go down. The surgery was hell. The pain medicine made me sick so I could not take it. Rehab starts 48 hours after surgery and your leg feels like a block of wood. Because your mobility is limited you get very little exercise and your cortisol levels are so high that you start to gain weight due to metabolic stress.

Well now it is 6 months after surgery and summer time and I have started to make my comeback to get in shape. I can exercise fully now but my midsection has put on some pounds.

I have always relied on Beverly International for my nutritional supplements, so now will be no different. One of my first supplements of choice is Muscle Provider by Beverly Nutrition. I will need the best protein made to recover from workouts and the muscle damage that will occur.

I also use Mass 500 and Ultra 40's for extra protein and minerals with my meals. I will go into more specific details on the benefits and make up of these supplements in later blogs so check back daily. I will also break down my work outs in detail as time goes on.

It was great to be back in the gym and not doing rehab workouts but real muscle building fat burning workouts. My fitness level had definitely suffered from my 6 month lay off. One of the first exercises I got back to was the StairMaster. This is the one that looks like a escalator. It is the only one I use for real cardio. DO 40 floors on this and you have worked out. More tomorrow.