Update on my knee replacement four years later. Episode 13 of the Knee Replacement Chronicles. Still running, still playing sports, and being active! What do I do to be able to do this and what can you do too.

Partial transcript of video below:

Hi. My name is Tony Armer, and four years ago, I had a total knee

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replacement, before I had this knee replacement surgery.

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I was completely miserable.

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I was in pain.

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I couldn't do all the things that I love to do.

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I have always been someone who played sports and trained

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and went to the gym and was constantly active all the time.

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And because of multiple knee injuries and knee surgeries,

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it got to the point where I couldn't do any of that anymore.

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I couldn't even do the elliptical at the gym.

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The most basic of cardio exercises without being in crazy amounts of pain.

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So my surgeon basically said, just get the knee replacement.

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I didn't want to at first.

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I thought it was an old man grandpa surgery.

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Suppose I'm an old man now.

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And did want to have it done.

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But after not being able to do anything for so long,

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I pulled the trigger, had the knee replacement, and couldn't be happier.

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I'm back to doing all the things that I'd love to do.

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Maybe not to the same speed and level that I used to do.

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I'm not as young as I used to be,

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but just being able to do them was what was really important to me.

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And I was able to do that because of hard work and training, basically.

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That's it.

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Just putting yourself through those paces, enjoying the pain enjoying the process,

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so to speak,

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and really digging into the rehab and the exercises and make it happen.

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I can run now.

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I can play beach volleyball and go snowboarding.

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I can bike, I can do all the things that I've wanted

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to do and used to be able to do, and I'm back to able to do it now.

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52 years old now, had a knee replacement when I was 48,

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and this is just some of the exercises and some of the things that I do in order

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to be able to continue this,

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even though I got back to being able to do these things.

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You don't stop.

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You keep going, you keep training, you keep enjoying the process,

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so to speak.

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You get the dopamine hit from the actual activity

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and the work as opposed to thinking what it's going to be at the end.

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So just wanted to share with you another update in the knee replacement

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chronicles here, where I'm at four years later, what I'm doing,

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what I'm able to do, still have some pain once in a while,

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but I've been able to work in a lot of new exercises and new things

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over the over the last couple of years.

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Continuing to look online and research and find new exercises

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