Parts start failing at 40

    • Vardøgor@mander.xyz
      1·
      26 minutes ago

      you think so? a little cheesy but i thought it went well with the theme. n was cool to reveal that ability

  • Wanderer@lemm.ee
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Fucking hell this is true.

    So is the two day hangovers, you just don’t get better. You wake up with a hangover where you think if I eat and nap it will be gone. 10pm rolls around and you feel exactly the same as you did at 10am. Then you feel tired and run down on the second day. People tell me it gets even worse and I believe them now. Can’t drink hazy IPA without living to regret it, but I do that all the time.

    I have never been overweight and largely been in shape but on and off. Now I feel it so bad getting back into it. It isn’t about pushing yourself as hard as you can without pulling a muscle. It is about carefully listening to your body and when your joints start feeling weird it’s time to stop.

    Don’t fuck about with your knees people. Wish I didn’t jump off shit as a kid, also wish I ate more for recovery.

    Where the fuck is my stem cell injections we were promised 10 years ago!

    • FlaminGoku@reddthat.com
      5·
      2 hours ago

      You sound like you’re either in your late 50’s and/or haven’t made your health a priority.

      This isn’t my experience and I’m almost 40.

      • Wanderer@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Not the case.

        Use to do a lot of sport had knee surgery at 21. As mentioned probably didn’t eat enough, done a lot of on, off stop start stuff. Travelled the world. Switched activities. Was never overweight.

        While I could have done more to improve my knees some people are just born with better knees than others and I’ve come to accept that. I don’t have issues with my back or shoulders or neck or hands. I know people my age that do. It’s just how it goes.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    37·
    10 hours ago

    I’m way past 30 now. I’m no gym rat but do go a few times a month. This year is when I noticed that my ability to lift a heavy weight isn’t lack of muscle but instead strain on knees (and other joints). Its such an odd notion that I can feel my muscles extra unused capacity to lift, but I feel the risk of injury to the joint if I were to use that strength. I had never experienced that before this year. Before it was always the limits of my muscles. Not anymore.

    Nobody told me this is how it goes when you get old. They say things like “my knees ‘gave out’ when I got old” but didn’t explain what that meant.

    It’ll happen to you…

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      12·
      10 hours ago

      I absolutely love this reference, and I use it all the time. Hell, I’m a walking simpsons encyclopedia.

      I’m 40 next year… So far, I’m lucky. I’ve gone from a extremely physically demanding job (hike through back country bush, dig to 120 cm when you get there) to sitting at a desk. Where I used to not even think about the gym, I now find myself in one 5 days a week, just for preventive measures. I’m never gonna be a freakbeast muscle man, but I’ll settle for not having a stroke at 60, like my dad did.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      51·
      9 hours ago

      I felt that about many joints when I slacked off on working out for a few months in my 20s. I was still lifting enough to keep my muscles from too much atrophy, but my joints got… lazy? Dynamic motion and heavier weights suddenly felt (as suddenly as me taking exercise more serious again) like my joints were the limiting factor.

      and then I overworked my arms and got something like tennis elbow and basically had to rehab myself back to being able to exercise, all without my muscles being the limiting factor!

      Take care of your body, folks. You can go over 100% when you’re young, but your body makes you pay when you’re older!

      Reminds me of the stories of the people who do crazy stuff on adrenalin rushes, like lift a car off their dying child, and then end up potentially hospitalized or otherwise extremely sore for months. I think I get it now…

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    8 hours ago

    Yeah, but at 50 you become an antique, which means people want you just as beat up and scarred as you happen to be, but they’ll pay less for you depending on how much scarring and beating you have.