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10 Mar
8:13pm, 10 Mar 2025
23 posts
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MikeJ
Joined a new gym today. Good conversation about how to build back and have been given a leg and an upper body routine. The leg is mostly a core builder but I've added some Swiss ball and plank to reinforce that. Not planning to add cardio for 6ish weeks until I am sure I am not aggrevating anything. Although I will try a bit of pool running to see if no weight bearing allows me to take that step. I will keep my daily walk going between 30 mins 5 times a week and 90 mins at weekends. The gym runs a running group so hopefully............
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10 Mar
8:57pm, 10 Mar 2025
17,986 posts
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jennywren
All sounds good Mike. I went back to running about 6 months after my THR but we’re all different. I did walk/jog at first (what I do now come to think of it!) and made rapid progress that first year. I’m 74 now though and a bit too creaky for proper running 
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10 Mar
9:16pm, 10 Mar 2025
48,914 posts
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Ness
Sounds like a good plan, MikeJ.
I was 35 when I had my hip resurfacing but my progress post was similar to jennywren. I had the op at the beginning of February 2003 and started running again in July of that year. Initially it was 5k, 5 mile and 10k races until 2008 when I moved on to half marathons. I ran my 50th half marathon in 2023 to celebrate my new hip's 20th anniversary.
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10 Mar
9:44pm, 10 Mar 2025
24 posts
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MikeJ
It's good to hear that has lasted so long for you.. I need to check what resurfacing entails. A total hip replacement means they slice through the glute max then lever apart the medius and minimus so there is some recovery, on top of the effects of two years degrading while waiting for surgery.
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10 Mar
9:45pm, 10 Mar 2025
25 posts
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MikeJ
Jenny so good to hear your story
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10 Mar
9:46pm, 10 Mar 2025
26 posts
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MikeJ
And so glad you are running
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10 Mar
10:06pm, 10 Mar 2025
48,916 posts
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Ness
I'm not sure what the standard incision is for a hip resurfacing, Mike, but I think it might be incision into the glute. My op was done differently because I'd already had two other surgical procedures (in my late teens) on that hip. It got damaged through complications after a hip fracture I had then. So the consultant who did my hip resurfacing decided to use the same entry site that had been used in the previous ops on the side of my hip rather than cutting into the glute.
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10 Mar
10:25pm, 10 Mar 2025
27 posts
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MikeJ
It seems we are all unique. hopefully there are good lessons to be learnt
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29 Mar
10:12pm, 29 Mar 2025
28 posts
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MikeJ
So for the last 30 weeks I have been for a walk every day missing just 4 days. My short day has gone from 15 to 25 mins and my long from 30 to 120 mins.
For the last 3 weeks I've been to the gym 3 times a week slowly adding weight reps and aerobic cross training so tonight was 90 minutes. Also all lower body exercises are single leg to try to make them equal in strength.
I've also lost over a stone and am targeting 3 stone in total which will leave me slightly heavier than my half marathon pb, 13 years ago.
So the last question is "when do I start running again?* I'd originally planned to start once I have lost 2 stone but the strengthening is going so well. We go on holiday to Greece in 6 weeks and am thinking I might start before then so I can run walk on holiday.
Thoughts anyone?
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30 Mar
7:12am, 30 Mar 2025
18,004 posts
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jennywren
I’m not really qualified to give you advice but all the advice I got was to just try it! Do a little jog/walk and see how it feels. It might feel very strange at first or it might be fine, just persevere until it starts to feel natural again. What’s the worst that can happen?
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