What is a hernia and how do you repair it?

Lifting heavy weights, as seen in this filepic, in continuous gym sessions is a risk factor for a hernia.

I go to the gym quite often, and lately, I engaged a personal trainer. I am trying to bulk my muscles up to have a six-pack. Unfortunately, the other day, after I lifted a particularly new set of weights, I felt something ‘let go’ in the lower part of my abdomen. Looking down at myself in the shower afterwards, I noticed a bulge on my right side.

You probably have a hernia, which is a part of a body organ or fatty tissue that squeezes out through a weak spot in the surrounding or encapsulating muscles or connective tissues.