Can FUE scars stretch?

[SoSoz]

After HT I want to come back to training ASAP. When is it safe to do bench press for example and other exercises where you put your head on the bench? I don't wanna risk having bigger scars on back of the head.

[Ake]

1 week for light exercise (walking) and 2 weeks for normal exercise. Your body will let you know what you can and can’t do. 

[BackFromTheBrink]

55 minutes ago, Ake said:

1 week for light exercise (walking) and 2 weeks for normal exercise. Your body will let you know what you can and can’t do. 

Heavy bench press is probably the exercise you don’t want to do.

It’ll mean pressure on your grafts against the bench (which probably isn’t the most sterile of objects) and high blood pressure to your scalp. 

Your body will be recovering from several thousand small ‘injuries’ - I would give it the chance to do that rather than repairing muscle damage from training.

i would personally leave heavy weights until 4 weeks afterwards and resume light training (cardio or training with lighter weights / no heavy compound movements)  at 2 weeks. 

Your grafts are anchored in the 1 to 2 week period, but given that you won’t lose any significant muscle mass, is it worth it?