My hip replacement at 40 — how I recovered and easy exercises to try at home

Harry Jameson is one of Britain's best-known personal trainers, a fitness guru who has guided politicians and celebrities to their physical peaks. Yet less than four months ago he was unable to walk unaided, let alone exercise like he did at the top of his game.

In February, after years of intermittent but progressively debilitating pain caused by osteoarthritis (OA) and partly inherited risk factors, Jameson had a hip replacement, an operation mostly associated with much older and certainly less agile people.

A supremely fit father of two toddlers, Jameson was just 40 when he went under the knife to have a new ceramic right hip fitted. Thanks to his age and fitness his recovery was faster than most. But it wasn't by any means