• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know what you youngsters are doing but my everything didn’t start to hurt until I passed 50.

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      8 months ago

      I’m 43 and rarely have aches (certainly nothing that would qualify as chronic), but I also regularly walk to and from the gym to weightlift. There’s a saying “Movement is Medicine” and so far it seems to be proving true for me. Maybe if you don’t use it you lose it.

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    8 months ago

    I’m well past 30 and do not have this problem.

    Either people have old injuries that are coming back to haunt them, bad genes, or they need to get their asses some exercise.

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      8 months ago

      Yea I’m just about 40 and have no more aches than I did when I was 20. If you are fit and not overweight you likely won’t have pains into your 50s.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, over 30 is when your shit diet and lack of exercise catches up with you more and more. Exercise starts to not be optional if you don’t want to feel like shit.

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        Yep.

        Quit going to the gym thanks to covid and just started back up a couple months ago. I thought I felt fine before. After a month at the gym just doing super-basic, non-stressful cardio to just improve overall health and I realized that nope, I was not fine. Way better now even after just a month with 4 days a week at the gym and low-impact exercise.

        Getting off your ass is highly valuable.

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      8 months ago

      I assumed the joke was that as you get older things are just more stiff and you don’t recover as fast. Yeah, it can be reduced with more exercise/activity but you’re still getting older.

      There was an event where this became apparent for me. I played softball for years in my 20s. Stopped for a bit and returned in my 30s. I was actually in better shape when I returned. One day mid-season, I was rounding first base, not even particularly fast, and I felt something tweek. By the end of the day I was stuck on the couch and could barely move. I had to take the next day off.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t think that’s what the meme is saying, it really shouldn’t need interpretation. However, I agree with the rest of what you said. Youth gets strength, endurance, and faster recovery. If you’re older, you can still hold on to strength, but endurance and recovery take hits with time.

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    8 months ago

    Turning 50 this month, and I feel pretty good. I have a few niggles here and there, but I stay active and that helps a lot.

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    8 months ago

    I’m 22 and everything already hurts all the time, I usually need help with basic house chores at this point cause i need so much time to rest

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    My whole body started hurting when I turned 21 and started working at factories and warehouses, and it still hurts because I work on a farm but it’s what I like to do so I take the good with the bad.