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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm half joking. But as a 30-something who used to be very active, I recognize I'm over the hill and my joints sound like pop rocks

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[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Wtf is wrong with all your bodies if they're that shit during your 30's lol

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 6 points 2 months ago

I'm 40 and i think i'm stronger and fitter than when i was 30. The downside is when i get hurt. I used to fall off my skateboard countless times and just got up and kept going. Two weeks ago i fell down some stairs on my ass/back and it still hurts.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I had a thread on here where multiple people were telling me I should expect to be in a little pain all the time in my 30's. I asked older people IRL about that, and the answer was lol no.

High probability it was dudes who barely get up from their chair, and seized up like corpses as a result. TBF it might have been a programming community.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

People are seditaty now more than ever. Like 40+% of the US is obese. Fat and joints and health do not go together.

Even Europe is catching up.

Edit: new study is showing 70% for the non-bmi definition.

https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/dramatic-increase-in-adults-who-meet-new-definition-of-obesity

People don't move, eat more food than they need...so yea that's how.

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Years of manual labour jobs for me, personally.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

It's not moving at all or moving way too much (and in the wrong ways) that causes the problems, per physio people I've heard from.

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Turns out I have extra bendy joints and it was only a matter of time before I injured myself.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I dislocated my knee in high school, couldn't afford to go to a doctor, haven't been able to walk right since.

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Thankfully I was injured at work and everything was paid for, because even in Canada, I'm not getting that physiotherapy for free.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Never mind! Hypermobility is a whole other thing. I'm sorry that you have to deal with that.

[-] Mangoguana@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Right? It's like they either been living in cramped farm factories staring at a screen or been working in a soviet gulag since age 8 from what you read online

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

I'm going to guess mostly the former, with a sprinkling of the latter, since the battery cage people are definitely online a lot.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 2 months ago

Children. Once there’s children you have 0 hours to look after yourself. It requires a Herculean effort for both your partner and you to carve out 30 minutes per person per two days

[-] burrito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

So exercise with your kids. I got in great shape doing just that. And my kid is in such good shape he has broken longstanding fitness records at his school.

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