We just finished changing one of our basement rooms into a home gym. I'm so excited to use it! The pics attached show it is still a little messy but totally accessible. What is you favorite piece of equipment - the one that you couldn't live without? For all of you post- op folk how long was it before you felt truly comfortable working out?

I am only three weeks post op... I walk the treadmill for 30 min daily, but at this point, really don't consider myself working out...

Way to go...looks good!!

We just finished changing one of our basement rooms into a home gym. I'm so excited to use it! The pics attached show it is still a little messy but totally accessible. What is you favorite piece of equipment - the one that you couldn't live without? For all of you post- op folk how long was it before you felt truly comfortable working out?

That looks like a good setup. To answer your question, I lots of walking right after surgery. At 3 weeks, I did a tough hike. Bad mistake. I was literally considering the ER after that one because of extreme dehydration. I continued to walk a lot for another month. After about 2 months, I started to work out in my home gym. I was not really consistent with that over the next couple months, but still continued to walk miles every day with my dog. Finally after 4 months, I am finally on a daily workout routine in my home gym. I think it took that long to have the endurance and also the motivation. Now I love working out hard for 45 minutes to an hour, being sure to mix things up to prevent muscle memory and boredom from forming. The best piece of advice I can give you is to find a time and program that will work for you. My biggest problem for the longest time was finding a time that works. I start work at 5:30 am and work on Eastern US time and then often late into the afternoon. If I have time in the afternoon, I tend to forget or not find the motivation. I am not going to get up any earlier to workout in the morning before work. It turns out an ideal time for me is between 9am and 10am, when my work colleagues on the east coast are at lunch.