If you are bored with your muscle-strengthening exercises, try doing more gardening instead.

Do you do weight-bearing and muscle-strengthening exercises on most days of the week?

Muscle weakness is common, and muscle-strengthening exercises are started soon after surgery.

Once you can bear weight without increased pain or swelling, begin muscle-strengthening exercises.

Begin muscle-strengthening exercises once you can stand without increased pain or swelling.

Add muscle-strengthening exercises to your routine in order to build more muscle.

Indeed, many exercise tapes or aerobics sessions contain muscle-strengthening exercises of the sort we have just described.

See pictures of basic muscle-strengthening exercises and muscle-strengthening with free weights .

See a picture of muscle-strengthening exercises using weights .