• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    And or being overweight. Took me awhile to figure out why people started talking about pains starting in their 30s.

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        9 months ago

        It’s truer than most realize.

        Decided to start lifting at age 47 because I was depressed with work, expecting to be laid off, and needed something positive in my life. A few months in I realize my back no longer hurts while sleeping. I’m not waking up in the morning aching. Here I thought I was hurting just because I was getting old when the reality was I was hurting because I was weak. I was dealing with back pain for several years unnecessarily.

        I can do nothing and suffer, or I can suffer a little under the bar and feel great. Either way I suffer but the latter suffering is so much better.

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        9 months ago

        Same with me. It was the realization how shitty it would be getting old the way i was living. It’s working out so far, me and the getting older part.

        What still sucks when reaching a certain age, is how fast muscles just vanish, after a few days without working out. Like, if you get sick, you can’t workout and after a week in bed, you’ll probably still be weak from being sick and working out is a tee bit harder to get going again.

        Getting really old, brings more time being sick and i wonder, when the final workout timeout doesn’t let you exercise anymore and that’s it.