The doc prescribed 42 oxy pills, she took one of them and quit. She was in a lot of pain pre-op, and tells me her pain level post-op has been largely zero. She has some quad soreness at times, no doubt because the surgeon moved it around to inspect her hip and femur. (This was a hip revision, nor replacement, he swapped out the ball with a new ceramic one).
I think interval training is very good, I usually run a mile at a slow jog and then walk and start 100 m "sprints" and walks. I'm amazed at two things really, first is how much has changed in 30 years, most of which was sitting, and second, how much I have improved trying to get into shape (a bit). It is MUCH tougher mid-60s.
I play baseball each January in Florida and my legs give out too soon. My shoulder is a total mess of torn meniscus so I can't throw hard enough to really have additional arm soreness. I am thinking about getting it scoped, it's starting to bother me in routine activities. I tore it as a junior in HS first game of the year. It was cold and I tried to over throw.