Phil Page Health and Fitness

Phil Page Health and Fitness 1-1 personal and online coaching online behaviour change coaching. Parkinson’s instructor. www.philpagecoaching.co.uk

24/08/2026

🚨 7 months down, 5 to go? Big week ahead…

One thing I’ve been working on, and making progress, is accepting how long this rehab journey is going to last.

Desperate to get back to things like regular walking, more intense exercise and have less discomfort, I’ve accepted that 2026 isn’t the year to be pushing things hard and being in a rush. Looking at others and thinking I need to be where they are, knowing I can’t.

I’m getting better at accepting this won’t be the year for anything major, just rehabbing and taking breaks.

The one thing I am nowhere near accepting is the replacement itself. Right now, I have a lot of anger towards it and my body. That it’s let me down, the things I’ve lost because of it and having a third hip replacement before I turned 40 was something I have struggled to come to terms with.

But I’m doing the work to change that, it’s tough and will continue to be for a while, but won’t give up on making that change and that when I have done the 12 months of rehab, I can finally move forward with life, new hobbies and work.

On Thursday I have a cortisone injection which will target the muscles and tendons that are rubbing against the new implant. All being well and good,
It’ll make me more comfortable day to day and be able to do the rehab more often as well as get some regular walking in through the week.

7 months down, happy with another 5 to go.

Onwards and upwards.

🚨Three years ago, I spent a year preparing my body to climb a 6,200 metre mountain.The summit was the part people saw, b...
07/08/2026

🚨Three years ago, I spent a year preparing my body to climb a 6,200 metre mountain.

The summit was the part people saw, but the real work happened in the 12 months before it, the training sessions, the setbacks, the days when progress felt almost invisible.

I’m finding myself in a similar place now, but for a very different reason.

After my third hip replacement, I’m 6 months into at least a year of rebuilding. This time the goal isn’t reaching a summit , it’s regaining strength, movement and confidence in my own body.

Rehab can be frustrating because the progress is often too small to notice day to day. A few more steps. A little more strength. A movement that feels slightly easier than last week.

But the mountain taught me something I need to remember now:

Big things are built from small things done consistently.

You don’t get to 6,200 metres in one leap. You get there by showing up, trusting the process and accepting that some days will feel harder than others.

Although they’re two totally different challenges, they have a common theme, you have no choice but to do the work.

Keep showing up and never give up.

21/07/2026

🚨I definitely wasn’t thinking this was possible a few weeks ago…

“Storms break us down so that we can build again”

Tomorrow marks 6 months since my third hip replacement…

And I’m not to lie, it’s probably been the hardest 6 months of my life.

Having to rebuild and rehab my leg, re-learn how to walk on that leg aswell as trust and accept the new metal hip as well as fight off a bone infection in the joint.

The hardest part was the months that followed after being on antibiotics for three months, I was in a very dark place which I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Depression, anxiety, extreme fatigue and constantly getting ill after trying to do rehab, left me in one of the lowest places I’ve ever been in my life.

But tough times never last, you’ve got to keep going. Having come out the other side of the after affects of the antibiotics, I’ve been able to consistently do the rehab and definitely feel that corner has finally been turned.

The hip is feeling really good, I have more energy and starting to get back the things in my life that make me happy like walking and hitting golf balls.

To mark 6 months, for the first time in a year, I walked up Butser hill, something I just couldn’t imagine doing a couple of months ago.

Extremely humbling but not comparing myself to the version on me who was training to walk up mountains a few years ago.

It wasn’t about how fast it took, just getting up there. Nice and sensible, just once up then back to the car. But enough to get those good feelings flowing and feel the sense of achievement I haven’t felt in over a year.

If you’ve been in a similar place after surgery, just never ever give up. Keep pushing, be sensible, seek the right help and keep doing the work.

Never ever give up.

Next steps: Awaiting a steroid injection in the hip flexor as it’s rubbing on the new metal cup, keep doing rehab to ease bursitis and don’t push to hard just because it’s feeling better.

Here’s to the next 6 months! 🍻

26/06/2026

🚨 5 months post op and new pb in the bag 💪

160kgs reverse squat🏋️‍♀️

15/06/2026

🚨Hopefully, this will help…

First meaningful rehab session for 3 weeks, hopefully the break to let everything settle down and give my nervous system a rest will help me to start creeping forward again.

After every session I was being left feeling run down and ulcers in my mouth, so decided to take some time off.

Now it’s all about finding the balance between not overdoing it and not doing too little…

Between making my body isn’t being overwhelmed but making sure my hip is getting stronger.

If anything, it’s just so nice to move and not feel completely useless.

Hopefully no big reactions tomorrow 🤞🤞🤞

09/06/2026

🚨Achieving this would mean a lot…

Progress is definitely on hold right now, I have taken a couple of weeks off doing anything other than very light rehab sessions and a few 20 minute walks.

After a very painful MRI scan yesterday, I feel even more in the dark about what’s going to be possible in the future. And with summer arriving, I feel like I’m going to be missing out on a lot this year due to the slow healing and lack of energy that comes with that.

So today I wanted to try an activity that helps me with dealing with stress and that’s hit balls at the range. Armed with a pitching wedge and balls, it was nice to spend an hour enjoying an activity that helps with mental health, especially now with this journey I’m on.

Nothing crazy, just a nice half swing, slow and steady. It actually helped my technique.

I’ve tried and struggled to look to the future and set goals, nothing feels achievable and I’ve had no guidance from consultants about what I’m actually going to be able to do in the future.

But, if I can get to a place where I can play a round of golf by the end of summer, I’d be very happy.

I’m shooting in the dark when it comes to knowing what I can do right now, so can only try these things out but being careful and not going crazy is the theme right now. I’ll expect to feel a bit sore tomorrow, so it’ll mean a couple of days of rest…

And that’s the way I’m expecting it to be for the rest of 2026 and I’m gradually getting there when it comes to accepting that fact.

So, a round of golf (using a biggie) by the end of summer is the target 🤞🤞🤞.

🧠 Brain dump Hitting a 4 month wall…I’ve shared a lot about the physical side of my rehab journey in rebuilding the stre...
28/05/2026

🧠 Brain dump

Hitting a 4 month wall…

I’ve shared a lot about the physical side of my rehab journey in rebuilding the strength and mobility in the leg…

But that’s not the reason my journey has hit a wall.

When I had the operation, I also picked up a post-operative bone infection and was on some serious antibiotics for 3 months to clear it which I only came off of a couple of weeks ago.

What they didn’t tell me in hospital the toll clearing and infection like that would have on my system. Where the antibiotics wiped out the bacteria, they also stripped my gut microbiome which is the core of your immune defence, and takes a heavy toll on your cellular energy levels.

Because of this systemic drain, any exercise whether it be a light upper body workout on machines, a walk or even rehab, would trigger a physiological crash known as Post-Extertional Malaise. Meaning my body just isn’t dealing with the strain of exercise.

When I try and push through, my immune system folds and I’ll wake up the next day exhausted and my mouth covered
In ulcers and has currently manifested itself as tonsillitis so yay, more antibiotics 😂.

Where the antibiotics did their job with the infection, my gut health has some
Catching up to do.

I’m learning that you must listen to your body and not be in such a hurry. You can’t force muscle strength and exercise stress onto a system that is still depleted.

So right now, pushing my body to do anything is on hold, no rehab, walking more than 10 minutes, and definitely no upper body ☹️ for a few weeks, which sounds completely counter productive, but necessary…

Instead it’s radical, uncompromised rest to let my immune system slowly get back to normal.

It’s going to be hard 😩.

I look forward to the day I’ll be back on the mountains and sharing wins again, but right now, this is where I’m at and I want to always be honest.

Gentle reminder to anyone facing an invisible and exhausting rehab journey, sometimes resting is the hardest but most needed work you’ll need to do.

🚨 I’ve just turned 40!! 😱The 30’s, what can I say!They began and finished with surgeries and new hips. Whilst going thro...
18/05/2026

🚨 I’ve just turned 40!! 😱

The 30’s, what can I say!

They began and finished with surgeries and new hips. Whilst going through a challenging rehab and the daunting prospect of turning 40, I’ve definitely not thought about all the challenges, great and not so great, of the last 10 years that shaped the best decade yet.

So, it’s great to have a look back and be proud of everything that came my way despite the physical limits put on me.

Did I push my luck? Yeh probably, but I wasn’t to know what was going on inside my body with a hip that had been eroding for years probably due the complications I had first time round.

But I definitely wouldn’t change a thing. Just maybe not of done the second Hyrox 🙈. But when you love sport and are competitive, it’s tough.

With this new hip, there are things that I won’t be able to do again, and am still coming to terms with it, but if I can get back onto the mountains, then I’ll be a happy man.

30’s, what a decade, probably my favourite. Every experience, good or not so good, I learned from, grew as a person, and didn’t give up, and looking back, i feel very proud.

Let’s see what the 40’s bring.

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