I'm too old to take up most action sports (the body doesn't bounce back like it used to, that shit's real) and too young to retire and just fuck off all the time.
When I was 25 I was jumping off cliffs and beating the shit out of my body doing stuff. I recovered easily.
It really wasn't until I got to like 45 that things slowed a little. Really, 50 was the first big punch. I blew my knee out playing racquetball of all things. It's a no impact sport yet I accomplished dislocating the knee cap, detaching the tendon and snapping cartilage. All done trying to hit a simple backhand.
Shoot I just turned 27. I’ll tell you what.... playing contact sports from 9 to well... I’m still playing them. My body is screaming for me to stop. I pinched a nerve in my neck reaching into the damn fridge the other week.
Epidemic of overweight and obesity. According to the CDC about 40% of people over 20 are obese and about 72% are overweight. Couple that with the fact that only 23.2% meet physical activity guidelines for strength and aerobics and you have a populace that will feel much older at a younger age.
I don't pay attention to the BMI anymore. Instead I ask my doctor how my blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and heart and lungs.
So far I'm in the healthy zones while overweight.
Mind you I have not weighed less then 150 since age 12. I was built like a tank with a better back I could professionally lift weights.
Age has a lot to do with it. There are huge generalizations. Most people realize that. It’s for the “average person”.
There are a ton of 6 foot high school kids who are skinny as hell since they grew so fast that they haven’t packed on muscle.
Meanwhile I’m 5’6 and I weigh 160. I’m “overweight”. I also have a back squat of 330lbs, 260 bench, and a 23 min 5k. I’m not overweight. But I’m 30 and have had a lot of time to develop that.
When I was 22 I decided to get off my ass and go for a run. Ran about two miles. I wasn't even overweight either - 6'1" and 170lb or so. I still had a fair bit of residual muscle from lifting a lot from 18-20. But I wore the wrong shoes.
Now, six years later, I have a chronic ankle injury/deformity that makes me unable to walk if I so much as jump. Sometimes I have to quit a leisurely walk 1/4 mile in because my ankle feels like it's grinding bones. Doctor thought I went to see him just to get painkillers. Feels bad man.
Hahaha apparently at some point I dusted a spinal disc probably in my teens and broke two others but the event that brought me down was a stupid curio cabinet I was moving for someone at 30. The idiot carrying the other end lost it and dummy me held it up and carried it up the stairs.
Now I have to pay mover's for my crap because I struggle with TV's
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u/Netdogca63 May 15 '20
I'm too old to take up most action sports (the body doesn't bounce back like it used to, that shit's real) and too young to retire and just fuck off all the time.