I went to see the knee surgeon Mr John Hardy yesterday for the two week post op consultation. He removed the stitches and we were both extremely happy with the results considering only two weeks had passed.

I have excellent range of motion and great quad tone. I have a little swelling in the knee still but that’s to be expected since I have been trying to stay active and doing as much rehab as possible.

I warmed up with a cross train for five minutes in my Fat Burn In 30 workout.

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Well things have been up and down with the knee over the last week. Things were looking really good up until I returned to work on Friday last week but it hasn’t stopped me working towards my goal of a full, fast recovery and full knee rehabilitation.

I had been able to keep the swelling down to a minimum and then on Saturday I woke up with my knee looking a little like a balloon. I had had my first physio session on the Friday (which didn’t cause the problem) and the phys was extremely impressed with how much range of motion I had.

The problem stemmed from the fact that for 2 days after the knee operation, I was sat on my back side with my knee in the air with an ice pack being administered every hour.

On Friday I spent much more time on my feet than I had done since the op and the knee really didn’t like this.

So the last couple of days have really been about getting the swelling under control as much as possible.

Obviously my training has taken a bit of a battering because of my situation, but I should be able to resume some level of interval conditioning and start to train the legs.

Earlier this week I completed a purely upper body and abs program, which I shall repeat today. Hopefully I’ll get it recorded for you so you can see exactly what I did.

Until then remember, train hard, train smart, and make every rep count.

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So yesterday I had my keyhole surgery to remove a number of things that were going on in my right knee. I had a small tear in in the meniscus of the knee, a cyst at the bottom of my ACL and a few other small things associated with wear and tear.

It was a day case so I entered hospital at 7am and walked out (yep, it’s amazing with today’s surgery) at 5.30pm.

I have two days off work to rest and try and get the swelling under as much control as possible.

I’ve actually changed this post since I started writing it as I spoke to a friend, and ex business partner, who is an amazing physio. He was telling me some really interesting things about how a small amount of fluid can really mess the rehab process up.

So I re-recorded my video clip to incorporate his thoughts on fluid inhibition as well as showing you the stage my knee is at at day 1 post operation, and the preliminary exercises I’m doing.

I’ll keep you updated on my progress.

Until then remember, train hard, train smart, make every rep count.

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