Post prostatectomy physical exercises and when?

It all depends of your personal results and level of fitness before surgery.
It is VERY individual.

General guidelines are (as you probably know) , not to do any heavy lifting for 6-8 weeks. During that period (after catheter is out) one can do all activities that do not cause discomfort or pain. My husband had very fast recovery, he felt almost normal after 2 weeks but some other members had extended recovery period and that is all considered normal ! We are all different.

Try not to compare yourself to anybody - follow your own recovery timeline and listen to your body. BUT, in general walking is VERY encouraged as soon as one can resume it - even while still having catheter in. It promotes healing on many levels.

Wishing you very fast and uneventful recovery 🍀 , and complete eradication of cancer .

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?

I highly recommend the book "My Exercise Medicine For Cancer" by Dr Robert Newton. I bought it on Amazon after listening to him speak on a PCRI YouTube video. Dr Newton has spent 30+ years studying exercise and its relation to cancer. It's rather detailed, and cover all cancers, but plenty of great information about prostate cancer. You don't say if you have already had your surgery, although I suspect you have, but his work covers pre treatment, during treatment and post treatment. There are a lot of guys on this forum who can help, and have a wealth of first hand personal experience, but I think you will find Dr Newton's advice invaluable

I walked at home with catheter bag post surgery. Then after catheter was removed I began walking outside again. It wasn’t until around five weeks that I began some of my normal exercise routine.

For me, walking. That’s because that’s the only structured exercise I do anyway.

I started walking the day after I got home from the hospital (so two days after surgery). At first, it was very slow and uncomfortable walks up and down the length of my house, maybe 10-15 minutes tops, and very gingerly.

I did that for 3-4 days, then moved to the treadmill on a very slow speed after that, and I’d slightly increase it every few days.

It probably took me a month of walking on it every day to get to the 2-mile point at a normal-to-slightly-brisk pace.

Nowadays, nearly 6 months post-surgery, I do my 2 miles at a pace that’s just under a jog, so very brisk walking. I do that 5 days a week.

As to driving, I can’t remember, but I was back to that pretty quickly. I didn’t ride in a car at all with my catheter (except for on the way home from the hospital, then back up 8 days later to have it removed), but I’m pretty sure I drove when we went up for my initial follow-up a month later.

That’s just me, though. I never push my recovery and I follow my doc’s orders as precisely as I can. Some guys, frankly, see it as some sort of challenge to their masculinity to try and beat the doc’s recommendation, which is fine for them, but not me. I’ve always been a very patient person.

@wheel1 thank you and yes September.

@carlsbadguy appreciate that, surgery is scheduled for September and I wanted to stay in shape until then. Will get the book.
Thank you

@turtbean thanks, I agree slow and steady wins the race. Appreciate the tips. I am on the unknown side of things.

My Dr told not to lift anything heavy for 3 months but you want to walk a bit if you have the catheter in so you won’t get blood clots but nothing more it’s already a struggle with the catheter and sitting/laying down is a bit challenging but you’ll adjust and figure what works for your body everyone is different

I would suggest following your surgeons directions and listening to your body. Follow his instructions. Mine told me no aggressive exercise for 5 weeks. The week after RP while cath. was in, I did some gentle walking 5 homes down where my buddies and I hang out. Once cath was out I started walking further and if I noticed blood spotting I would back off. After two weeks I was walking 2-3 miles a day in our state park on good fire roads. At 5 weeks I was riding my mountain bike on easy flow trails and started running and training for my upcoming sports officiating season.