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I hope yβall are 80 cause Iβm 40βs and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days itβs so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
It is good to see this comment. Seeing the same joke of "I'm 30 and basically invalid" repackaged over and over on the internet and so many people finding it relatable is worrying.
It only takes a few years of inactivity and overeating for your body to become a total wreck. There's nothing stopping 30-year-olds from doing it.
I'm still active in my 40's and I have a bunch of nagging sports injuries, some of which trace back 20+ years. Overuse injuries are common, too. Ask pretty much any serious runner or lifter or full time athlete, and they'll all have things that they just live with.
48yo alpinist who climbs 5.12+ here. I'm constantly injured. If you're not doing regular training for injury prevention it will come back to bite you in your 50's or 60's and you will not have the framework to navigate the injury without further fitness loss and a downward spiral of capabilities.
The rock gym is where I fucked up my shoulders. That was the beginning of the end. That, then office job, then kids, then pandemic. I'm working on regaining some movement, though.
You got this bro.
...fourties are when the little injuries start; nothing debilitating, just minor tweaks from time to time which surprise that your resilience isn't quite what it was twenty years ago...
...fifties are when they sneak up to get their revenge...
As someone in my 30s I've been told that by folks in their 40s and 50s about hitting the 30s and so far besides a reduction in the ability to not get a hangover I'm not really seeing it.. I can't speak from experience so far but part of me wonders if that's not just folks projecting their own specific issues onto those younger than them.
I'm not casting shade on you specifically, I don't know your specific circumstances, it just makes me wonder how much of this is age vs how long folks have gone without exercise and have begun to atrophy. Kids play and run a lot so one could assume they're probably more fi than we are even if they're weaker and slower than us due to their size.
...hey, you do you: the only thing i noticed by my late thirties was that working all-nighters hit me a little harder than it used to...
That's why I said I wasn't casting shade on your specific circumstances, since I don't know them. There definitely is a tangible difference as we age, so far I find it to be recovery times that are affected, I just find a lot of folks use that as a crutch to justify getting more and more out of shape. Not trying to project onto you or any one in particular.
...no offense taken at all, we share the same point that individual mileage may vary; as i've aged, though, i've noticed fourties and fifties sneak up on pretty much everyone across the spectrum...
...depsite my resolve that general fitness and activity prove a differentiator, i've come to accept that nobody escapes senescence...
Yep, same age here. I have a herniated disk. I stretch in the AM and before bed. Probably once a year I'll do something stupid like lift something way to heavy and aggravate it, and then I just take it easy for a day or two and I'm fine again. People just don't move around anymore, everyone is sedentary now. Just getting you 10k steps in helps a ton.
Hell if you're a gamer like me, get walkscape and play a game with the amount of steps you do in a day.
Just move around.