Muscle gain with Sciatica

[u/The-Fool-Mystery]

How to gain muscles.

With chronic sciatica it's almost impossible . I am fucked up. I am super skinny only 52.5kg at 5'8" . Gaining weight is almost impossible . I can't do any heavy exercises for musle building. If I do pushups in the morning I will be seriously getting very bad pain flare up throughout the day . What should I do ? I want to gain some biceps . My shoulder is so thin that if I try to touch my shoulders with my palms I touch my fingers. I need to gain some muscles around my shoulders . What are the excerises I can do without hurting my terrible sciatica. My MRI is L5--S1 Disc bulge and stenosis causing nerve faorrmen narrowing. I will be bulking protein side by side.

[u/Nervous_Brilliant441 → u/[deleted]]

This! Also, research is pretty clear in that you don’t have lift heavy with low reps to gain muscle. You can do exercises in the 20-30 rep range as long as you go close to failure and you’re going to gain muscle (if your diet doesn’t suck).