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Hi @naturegirl5, I haven't had a hip replacement yet... 🙂 but I'm close to a year out from a total knee replacement and am trying to keep exercising as much as I can because I also think it's important. Sounds like you are doing great with exercising but just trying to figure out how much might be too much. I do all of my exercises at home using an elliptical and a recumbent exercise bike. I also have 10 pound hand weights that I use but not quite as often but then I'm an old guy. I did find a PDF file from Vancouver Health - Exercise Guide for Hip Replacement Surgery that has a section for exercise guidelines 3 months to a year starting on page 33 of the PDF. One thing on the page that I thought might be helpful for you is a chart for hip joint loads during exercise. Page 38 lists a lot of Internet resources that may also be helpful for you.

Exercise Program for Total Hip Replacement - Vancouver Coastal Health
-- https://vch.eduhealth.ca/PDFs/FB/FB.863.Ex37.pdf

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This great and thank you for sharing. This is a very long program but one would need to follow in phases. But the pictures and explanations are easy to follow.

Thank you, John. The Vancouver Coastal Health Guide has far more information than anything I've seen. This will be helpful. And for what it's worth, I'm getting into that old girl age (I'm 68) so I don't lift like I used to.

Thanks John for THR program, l was like naturegirl5. Went back to ward nursing @ 6mths heavy work with manual handling Pt's. Now post op 4wksTKR, it's best my hip has felt with rest it going slow with recovering. Do you have a program for TKR John?