Is it possible to do bodybuilding and powerlifting with hemorrhoids?

Inexperienced athletes are frequent patients of the proctologist. Heavy loads cause prolapse of internal hemorrhoids. Is it possible to do bodybuilding with hemorrhoids?

How common are hemorrhoids in bodybuilding? A large number of athletes suffer from vascular and proctological diseases. There are no statistics on this issue. But it has long been known that one of the reasons for the development of proctological diseases is hard work in production and intense physical activity in sports. Doctors often include loaders and athletes who engage in weightlifting (bodybuilding, kettlebell lifting, powerlifting) at risk.

During constant physical activity, blood stagnates in the veins and pressure increases.

Vessels lose their elasticity. All this leads to varicose veins of the rectum.

Causes of hemorrhoids

• First of all, this is poor nutrition (failure to follow a diet, spicy food, alcohol, lack of fiber, etc.)
• Constipation
• Obesity
• Inactivity (absence or low physical activity) and also a sedentary lifestyle (long sitting in place).
• Body-building
• Powerlifting
• Various strength sports
• Exercises such as squats and deadlifts are the same exercises that cause an increase in intra-abdominal pressure.

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What to do

If signs of hemorrhoids appear, and it is difficult to imagine life without training, then you can use the following tips:

1. It is necessary to contact a specialist for examination and clarification of the issue about the disease that has arisen.
2. During an exacerbation of hemorrhoids, it is necessary to exclude heavy exercises - squats for 5-6 repetitions, deadlifts, push, jerk, lunges with dumbbells, as well as all types of aerobic activity (cycling, sprinting, etc.).
3. For hemorrhoids in the initial stage, you can leave only light squats and deadlifts for about 2-3 weeks, followed by a gradual return to the previous regime.
4. In severe and advanced cases of hemorrhoids (bleeding, thrombosis or pinched nodes), exercises are completely excluded until the doctor’s permission.
5. It is necessary to adhere to correct breathing while lifting the barbell - lift as you exhale, lower as you inhale.
6. Consult with your doctor about a course of using special ointments or suppositories for hemorrhoids; medications containing a hormone to quickly relieve pain, or with phenylephrine to constrict blood vessels and stop bleeding, for example, Relief, are suitable.
7. Particular attention should be paid to fluid intake (drink at least 3 liters per day) and nutrition - you should exclude everything spicy and salty.
8. Clothes should be comfortable and not rub the body anywhere.
9. After the acute symptoms of hemorrhoids have been relieved, it is necessary to return to the previous strength rhythm and training regimen gradually, reducing the load in case of any deterioration in well-being.

Prevention of hemorrhoids

General recommendations

1) Try to walk more, you can even run.

Avoid a sedentary lifestyle, do not sit still for more than 2-3 hours at a time, periodically perform deep squats and walks in the fresh air to improve blood flow in the lower pelvis.

2) I recommend swimming for this period of time.

Because there is a harmonious load on all the muscles of the body, in addition there is minimal trauma and a complete absence of pressure in the abdominal cavity and pelvic area, which is essentially the best prevention of an unpleasant illness. I am already silent about the fact that swimming will help to cope not only with the manifestations of hemorrhoids, but also with other diseases.

3) A very useful exercise that you should definitely do. Daily increased retraction of the anus, 10-20 repetitions, 3-4 times a day. This leads to an increase in the tone of the *n*l*ns, which prevents the expansion of veins, and the outflow of blood is facilitated.

If you have a lump, I recommend applying ice to the lump several times a day to relieve pain.

4) I do not recommend wearing thermal underwear or tight underwear.

5) Do not strain on the toilet, as a rule, the intestines should be emptied without any human effort, I also recommend using soft toilet paper, it would be even better to wash yourself after each trip to the toilet, I recommend just washing with cold water.

6) To treat and cure hemorrhoids, I recommend suppositories (for example, Anuzol) and proctosedyl ointment.

Can be purchased at any pharmacy. You also need to take the drug Detralex or its Russian analogue Venarus (see the instructions for dosages and dosage schedule).

Why does bodybuilding affect hemorrhoids?

A person may suspect the appearance of internal problems in the pelvic area - hemorrhoids - by the periodic discomfort that accompanies him when emptying the rectum. In some cases, people learn about the disease by seeing traces of blood from the anus on toilet paper.

Hemorrhoids in bodybuilding are a direct consequence of excessive muscle tension that accompanies weight lifting. Increased intra-abdominal pressure leads to a malfunction in the valve system of veins that drain stagnant blood from the rectum. Its accumulation as a result of stagnation in the pelvis contributes to the further expansion of the venous “sacs”. The longer and more intense the power load, the more severe the pathology will become.

However, formed hemorrhoids do not mean a complete renunciation of bodybuilding. Classes may well continue, but with special precautions, excluding certain groups of exercises. At the same time, you will have to monitor your health especially carefully - regularly examine varicose veins and take medications to prevent thrombosis.

Bodybuilding will be contraindicated for those athletes who have already undergone surgery for severe varicose veins of the rectum - due to the risk of relapse of the disease. After all, the increased blood flow to the small pelvis when lifting weights in the gym contributes to the fact that other, not yet damaged, areas of the veins suffer. In this case, if a person wants to continue to engage in “heavy” sports, experts recommend considering alternative options for strength exercises.

When doing bodybuilding

1) If hemorrhoids appear, you should definitely give up bodybuilding. Remember, one wrong breath while lifting weights and the knots will fall out.

2) If you did not listen to my advice, then it will be worse for you.

But for such concerned fans, first of all, I recommend eliminating squats, deadlifts and other heavy basic exercises that increase intra-abdominal pressure.

During this period of time, it is best to perform isolated exercises. In addition to isolation exercises, you need to reduce the working weights and increase the number of repetitions.

When performing isolation exercises, do not hold your breath under any circumstances.

Can you lift weights or not?

If there is a predisposition to the development of hemorrhoidal disease, then some strength exercises are prohibited. But you can do bodybuilding at the same time. You must adhere to certain rules.

Under the guidance of specialists, you need to correctly calculate the types and intensity of physical exercise. The decision to take up this sport should be supported by a consultation with a proctologist. The specialist will correctly determine the degree and severity of the disease. He will tell the patient individually about all the risks and possible complications.

Uncontrolled strength training can lead straight to the surgeon's operating table

If the doctor makes a positive verdict, then an experienced trainer will develop an individual training system.

Of these, he will most likely exclude deadlift exercises. It will prohibit movements on the abs, as well as any loads that increase intra-abdominal pressure.

Failure to follow these rules usually results in surgery! Constant physical activity during an exacerbation of hemorrhoids in 90% of cases leads to serious proctological complications.

Effective loads and exercises for hemorrhoids

Preventive actions

Sports doctor
Exercises for hemorrhoids are not prohibited, and some are simply necessary, the main thing is that the exercises and loads are announced to the attending physician during the examination. The specialist will adjust the course of permitted activities, as some exercises may worsen the condition. A disease such as hemorrhoids is common among bodybuilders; this is associated with excessive heavy loads to build muscle mass.

Patients with hemorrhological pathology are prohibited from holding their breath. If there are bumps, proctologists recommend applying ice compresses or administering frozen suppositories. The ice remedy eliminates pain and inflammation. It is important that the underwear is made of cotton material; it is better to avoid tight thermal underwear.

If an exacerbation of hemorrhoidal disease occurs, it is necessary to use the drug Proctosedyl (in ointment or suppositories) in combination with the tablet drug Detralex. The duration and course of therapy are prescribed by the doctor individually.

How to eat

Treatment of hemorrhoidal disease is impossible without a diet. First of all, patients should avoid alcohol and spicy foods. Your daily diet should contain many foods containing fiber.

It is very healthy to eat fresh fruits and vegetables every day. You cannot drink strong coffee or tea. Every day a person should drink at least 1.5 liters of ordinary water. Additionally, it is useful to drink rose hips, herbal infusions, and green tea.

Running and walking

Proctologists recommend that patients with hemorrhoids walk. You can't sit for a long time. If the work is sedentary, then it is recommended to get up every hour to do squats, squeezing/unclamping the anus, and walking. Such preventive exercises help improve blood flow in the pelvic organs. Hemorrhoids and preventive training are necessary to improve the condition and speedy recovery of patients. Physical activity is the main component of treatment with medications and dietary nutrition.

Water treatments

Patients with hemorrhoids should take extra care of their hygiene. To maintain tone in muscle tissue, proctologists recommend swimming, since during such activities there is no pressure on the abdominal muscles, the load is distributed evenly throughout the entire muscle tissue of the body. Swimming helps not only to prevent hemorrhoidal disease, but also other pathologies in the body.

Gymnastics and yoga

Among the useful anti-hemorrhoidal activities, proctologists highlight yoga and a special complex for the anus. To maintain the tone of the anorectal muscles, retracting/relaxing movements of the anus are useful, 30 approaches at a time, 4 times a day. With increased sphincter tone, the possibility of venous expansion is excluded. Exercises help facilitate the outflow of plasma. Among the yoga poses to eliminate hemorrhoids, you can perform the birch tree exercise.

Regular bowel movements

Regular bowel movements
Is it possible to rock with acute hemorrhoids? The attending physician will provide extensive information on this question, since a set of exercises for athletes is selected individually, taking into account the severity of the condition. To avoid difficult stools (constipation), you should follow a balanced diet. If there is a problem with the regularity of bowel movements, it is necessary to take a gentle laxative.

Normally, a person should go to the toilet at least once a day. You should defecate without straining; after bowel movements, it is better not to use sanitary paper, but to wash yourself with cool water without using household chemicals. Cold water will cleanse the anus and relieve discomfort.

Why you need to run to the doctor.

And finally, I’ll say, if you’re already reading this material, most likely something has already happened. And you shouldn’t look for answers to all your questions in this topic. Go to the proctologist. It’s okay if you sit alone, among a crowd of real men over fifty. For some reason, young people rarely come to both proctologists and urologists. There are always a crowd of grandfathers in these offices.

Supposedly, it’s not a man if they shoved a finger up your ass or gave you a prostate massage. Not according to the concepts supposedly. Everyone is not a man. But I will be a man! So what about stage 4 hemorrhoids and advanced prostate cancer...

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Physical activity for hemorrhoids

Among the most common causes of hemorrhoids are heredity, unbalanced diet, bad habits, sedentary lifestyle and excessive exercise. And, despite the fact that doctors constantly pay attention to the need to take basic measures to maintain health, a significant number of people become patients of a proctologist precisely because of their negligent attitude towards themselves and their body.

Exacerbation of the disease after heavy lifting

If it was not possible to prevent the symptoms of hemorrhoids or its acute form developed, and the cause was unbalanced sports training or weight lifting, then the person feels severe cutting or throbbing pain, bleeding may occur due to pinching and inflammation of hemorrhoidal cones, in rare cases, thrombosis is observed .

For these symptoms, the same treatment is used as for other provoking factors. Cold helps with bleeding, ointments and gels will relieve inflammation, tablets are used to normalize blood circulation.

In order to prevent and reduce complications of hemorrhoids, as well as receive instructions on how to treat hemorrhoids due to severity in a particular case, you need to contact a proctologist when the first signs of the disease appear.

Categories of the population included in the risk group

The assumption that loaders and weightlifters will necessarily get hemorrhoids is incorrect. If strong and hardy people are needed in production or warehouses, and the applicant is not one of them, but needs employment, then:

• Firstly, nothing prevents a person from bringing his physical form into line with the requirements of the company.
• Secondly, a simple warm-up before and after carrying weights can restore normal blood flow. And this is already half the success in the fight against hemorrhoids.

You can also use small tricks: if possible, divide the load into smaller parts or start working with small items, gradually increasing the tonnage. It is very useful to visit the gym, but first you need to work out with a trainer. Professional athletes will tell you how to strengthen your muscles without harming your health. So when asked whether it is possible to lift weights with hemorrhoids, doctors give an unequivocally positive answer, you just need to approach this more thoughtfully.

A more problematic group of the population is women. Few people pay attention to the symptoms of hemorrhoids when carrying a child. And after giving birth, they concentrate only on the baby, sometimes feeling severe pain, but attributing it to postpartum phenomena. Also, it is already a familiar picture when it is women who purchase provisions for the whole family and, accordingly, deliver them to the house.

Even children are at risk of getting hemorrhoids, often trying to move something, lift it, etc. “on a dare.” Also, in order to save money, older people can carry bags of food, even from a remote area of ​​the city, without thinking that treating hemorrhoids can be more expensive.

Thus, we draw two conclusions:

• Hemorrhoids from heaviness can occur or worsen in almost everyone;
• Completely eliminating physical activity is just as harmful as overworking.

My first trip to the proctologist: signs of hemorrhoids

If I eat soft food, it comes out soft, if I eat hard food, it comes out hard.

True, it happened 8 years after the hemorrhoids first started. I was 20 then, and with other lucky people I was unloading a former warehouse in the basement of the building. The three of us carried heavy columns and loaded them into the car. Later in the evening, I noticed blood in my stool for the first time. This was something new.

The proctologist listened to me and congratulated me on my hemorrhoids. He examined my problem, then took a pen and wrote on the medical card - grade 2 inflammation of the hemorrhoidal sinuses. Before doing this, he asked how long my symptoms lasted. I answered about 8 years. Stability - once every 2-3 months. I also noticed that if I eat soft food, it comes out soft, if I eat hard food, it comes out hard.

Causes of the disease and its symptoms

Hemorrhoids are an abnormal process in the rectal area, which is characterized by expansion and decrease in the functions of the venous system in the problem area.

As a result, there is an abnormal modification of connective and muscle fibers, abnormal blood flow and pathological blood retention in the anus.

Haemorrhoids

At the same time, the elasticity of the vascular membranes decreases, an excess amount of venous blood collects in the vessels of the rectum, which contributes to the occurrence of the disease and its further complications.

Causes of pathology:

1. Inactive lifestyle.
2. Excessive physical activity.
3. Pregnancy and childbirth.
4. Hereditary predisposition.
5. Overweight.
6. Addictions (smoking, alcohol abuse).
7. Spicy foods and poor nutrition in general.
8. Problems with bowel movements (constipation).

The disease is characterized by several stages of development:

1. First: there are practically no symptoms.
2. Second : the appearance of bleeding and internal hemorrhoids, which are reduced on their own.
3. Third : hemorrhoid cones fall out at the time of defecation and can be straightened only with your hands.
4. Fourth : hemorrhoids can no longer be reduced by hand.

In addition, the disease can occur in the following forms:

1. Interior.
2. External.
3. Combined.

The pathology is characterized by the following symptoms:

1. Pain in the lower rectal area.
2. Burning and itching in the anus.
3. Bleeding from the anus.
4. Formation of hemorrhoidal cones.
5. The appearance of anal fissures.
6. Swelling and formation of inflammatory processes.
7. Thrombosis.
8. Development of constipation.

As you can see, one of the factors in the formation of pathology is greater physical activity, which also includes lifting weights. Question: Is it possible to get involved in sports that involve strength training, such as bodybuilding or powerlifting?

Who is contraindicated for strength exercises?

Among athletes who have been diagnosed with hemorrhoids, a group can be distinguished that has absolute contraindications to strength training, including bodybuilding:

• III-IV stages of pathology development;
• bleeding from the rectum;
• prolapse of hemorrhoids.
• strangulation of hemorrhoids.
• regular exacerbations of the disease, including in the first stages of hemorrhoids.

However, if you cannot live without bodybuilding and do not want to stop training and lose your progress, then you will have to follow the rules of strength training for hemorrhoids.

Recommendations from proctologists

Therapeutic physical exercise for hemorrhoids will strengthen the body's defenses and provide tone to the blood vessels.

During the acute stage of the disease, classes must be stopped. When the situation stabilizes, training resumes.

Follow three fundamental points on the road to recovery. Use the following recommendations from proctologists as an addition to the main therapy prescribed by your doctor if:

Gym:

Diet and nutrition:

The price of your health is just 10 minutes a day to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. Walking up the stairs, squats, and walking are useful.

It is easier to prevent a disease than to treat it! Take care of yourself and your health - this is a priceless human gift.

Strength training and hemorrhoids

What to do if bodybuilding and hemorrhoids complement each other? For fans of this sport, it is necessary to organize training so that the disease does not worsen. For this purpose, a correct training regimen with dosed strength loads is developed. A sports medical professional will help develop a plan.

Is it possible to do bodybuilding if you have hemorrhoids? In order to choose the right set of gentle exercises, the athlete needs to undergo a proctological examination to find out at what stage of development the formed hemorrhoids are. The selection of permitted exercises depends on the severity of the disease.

Athletes with hemorrhoidal exacerbation are excluded from a set of exercises that affect the abs, as they cause excess pressure in the pelvic vessels. You should also not do squats with a barbell if you have hemorrhoids; deadlifts are excluded and the weight of the load is reduced.

Sports training is carried out taking into account one’s own feelings, since the coach cannot feel the impact of a particular exercise. If during training an athlete feels discomfort with pain in the lower abdomen, it is necessary to stop training immediately. Such symptoms may be harbingers of mucous and bloody discharge from the anus, which indicates a hemorrhoidal exacerbation.

If you have hemorrhoids, you can do bodybuilding, but take into account the recommendations of your doctor and trainer. Preference in classes can be given to exercises that will not aggravate the situation; regular proctological examination is also necessary.

Exercises that normalize intra-abdominal pressure

After training, as recommended by your doctor, perform exercises that normalize intra-abdominal pressure. They can also be done to prevent the disease:

1. Hang on the horizontal bar. As you exhale, lift your straight legs to the bar. Pause for a second and slowly lower your legs. Perform 10-15 times. In addition to normalizing intravenous pressure, this exercise helps to properly load the lower abs;
2. Lean forward, legs bent, hands resting on your hips, head down, shoulders relaxed. Inhale and exhale, inhale and hold your breath for 30 seconds. Exhale, relax and rise smoothly, straightening your back.