I did not try any exercise but walking. I was pretty much back also two weeks after surgery but certainly no lifting. I just avoided anything that was mildly considered more than light lifting. The walking is really not restricted to what you are able and comfortable with excluding any overdoing the first couple days. If you normally walk you will gauge yourself building back up. I had surgery and went home the same day. The next day felt fine and maybe started with two blocks walking slowly. The next day was probably 1/2 mile again slowly, by the third went for a mile and could tell my pace was quicker not by doing it on purpose, but just by my walking more normal steps and not as deliberate in smaller steps. I still did not try to get any faster while my catheter was in. It was easy to get up to two miles. My catheter was in for 11 days due to a holiday weekend but the day after it came out I was driving. I felt I could have driven after a week with my catheter in, but my wife nixed that. Do you have surgery scheduled?