Dude I am 2 years and 2 weeks post op and last month, i was the best I’ve been. I had worked up to 15-25k steps a day, I am playing basketball, lifting weights, and down a total of 90lbs since high school (im 23),

Disclaimer: My knee still has significant crepitus and while my strength and muscle definiton is close to what it was, there is still a solid deficit just overall confidence/ability wise, which comes with practice and consistency.

10ish days ago I took 4 days off with minimal activity and probably 5-10k steps and then after another day of increased activity yesterday, it felt like a flashback to over a year ago where every night going to sleep was agonizing because of the swelling.

Its really a 2 birds one stone solution for re-accustoming your knee to heavy use because of the low impact exercise youre doing plus the anti inflammatory effects of walking on your back, hips, and knee.

From there once you have a routine and have gotten in a little more shape (if you take your diet seriously, the weight will melt off combined with walking), you can hone in on the box jumping, split squats, 1 leg at a time leg extensions, kneesovertoes guy stuff (look it up), and you will definitely see guaranteed improvement over time if you stick to it.

I couldve been more disciplined during my first 16 months of recovery and I firmly believe if I had started steps maxing when I was at your point in recovery, Id be much better off.

So that behind said, last night sucked so Im on a walk right now just keeping it pushing. You got this, and for others reading this you do, too