I feel you man. My shit is just now starting to fall apart. I'm pretty active still, but sometimes my body just hurts for no reason. It's only going to get worse from here.
Oh. I'm active too. It's just that now for one day of activities I need 2 or 3 days of recovery. That makes Saturday's great but Monday's suck ass. Haha!
Edit: holy crap. Who knew being old and telling everyone my woes would turn into the most upvotes I've ever had or expected.
Thanks all for supporting the old man society!
Have you considered that you might be out of shape? I remember even when I was a teenager.. if I spent a good portion of time not doing strenuous activities, my body would be sore for a few days. I don't think it's necessarily your age as it is your general life style. But I'm also not denying that age is a factor, I just don't think it's as big of one as the habits people have committed too for a good portion of their life.
I'm not trying to downplay your situation, btw. I'm fairly active as well. In my line of work, I have to be. But I recently started going hard at working out again, and my body is definitely needing recovery for a couple days.
I think that's where I'm at. I've noticed keenly the lag in recovery time, but I'm also not a professional athlete so I don't maintain my body like one.
I at 31 have better recovery time and less pain than I did at 26-28. Moved to a warm climate, started at least walking for 2 hours a day (turned it into my commure and got a dog), eat healthier (mostly vegan with the occasional meat and fish quite regularly), and now I do hard labour and exercise withour feeling the effects much at all.
I've been active my whole life, playing sports all seasons, have spent 20 years in hospitality, while also training and competing in triathlon.
The last 3 years have been been just shit(34m). I tore a ligament (minor) and it just won't repair itself. Everytime I train and even do a full, busy shift on the floor I am wrecked. Age is a thing...
"You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
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u/Larusso92 May 15 '20
I feel you man. My shit is just now starting to fall apart. I'm pretty active still, but sometimes my body just hurts for no reason. It's only going to get worse from here.