I used to be 1am to 6am but I had to start taking Trazadone to sleep at all!
General Oldtimers: When did you really start feeling it?
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I felt pretty much like a teenager until my early 40’s. I was training BJJ/MMA at least once a day and lifting as well.
Mid-40’s: competing started getting harder, and rolling hard with the young bucks was getting less fun.
Late 40’s: started getting injured increasingly frequently even when training lighter
50 now: have not been able to train in nearly a year, and for about the past 5 months I have been so tired I have trouble making it through a normal workday. The recent fatigue is likely due to a medical issue- but we have not identified exactly what the issue is as of yet
Mid-40’s: competing started getting harder, and rolling hard with the young bucks was getting less fun.
Late 40’s: started getting injured increasingly frequently even when training lighter
50 now: have not been able to train in nearly a year, and for about the past 5 months I have been so tired I have trouble making it through a normal workday. The recent fatigue is likely due to a medical issue- but we have not identified exactly what the issue is as of yet
Like others, 46 was the age where I started feeling older.
54 now and pain is a constant companion, but nothing that prevents me from sleeping or working out.
At the gym I have to do a couple of sets with light weights to work the pain out of my joints before I can lift anything heavy.,
54 now and pain is a constant companion, but nothing that prevents me from sleeping or working out.
At the gym I have to do a couple of sets with light weights to work the pain out of my joints before I can lift anything heavy.,
Some good advice I got several years ago.
As you get older more of your workout needs to focus on warming up and colling down. At 20 a 60 minute workout would be 5 minute warm up, 50 minutes workout, 5 minute cool down.
Add 5 minutes to warm up and cool down at 30.
Add 5 minutes at 40.
Add 5 minutes at 50.
So now my 1 hour work out is a 20 minute warm up, 20 minutes of work out, 20 minutes of cool down.
At 50 I also added a mobility routine that I do every morning. I can and will skip workouts, but if I skip the mobility work I am going to have a day filled with little bursts of "what the hell was that" from my hips, knees and back.
As you get older more of your workout needs to focus on warming up and colling down. At 20 a 60 minute workout would be 5 minute warm up, 50 minutes workout, 5 minute cool down.
Add 5 minutes to warm up and cool down at 30.
Add 5 minutes at 40.
Add 5 minutes at 50.
So now my 1 hour work out is a 20 minute warm up, 20 minutes of work out, 20 minutes of cool down.
At 50 I also added a mobility routine that I do every morning. I can and will skip workouts, but if I skip the mobility work I am going to have a day filled with little bursts of "what the hell was that" from my hips, knees and back.
54. If I don't stay on my mobility routine I backslide significantly and set myself up for injury doing simple shit.
It's frustrating as hell, I'm still abnormally strong. But all that means is that I can tear myself apart easily doing simple minor tasks.
This reality honestly never occurred to me and probably why I kept getting hurt in my 40s.
After an otj injury, about 10 years later I went back to college for retraining.
There were cane days & I had to wear a back brace under my clothes & often arm and knee braces.
I was getting hit on my Japanese hotties & turned them down, and for that felt old.
Looked good enough on the outside, but you can't hide tattoos that are older than they are, or the fact i'm not convinced stay strong pills wouldn't kill me.
There were cane days & I had to wear a back brace under my clothes & often arm and knee braces.
I was getting hit on my Japanese hotties & turned them down, and for that felt old.
Looked good enough on the outside, but you can't hide tattoos that are older than they are, or the fact i'm not convinced stay strong pills wouldn't kill me.
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My posting history tells the story.
I call my bedroom "The War Room"
If there's one thing I can't stand it's the pharmacist telling me to be careful with my meds monthly, as if I haven't been in this trench for 20 years.
Yep. This year has felt like a reality check for recovery. Used to be much easier to repair and get back on track. It’s taking longer but I am making the adjustments needed to fix diet and training.
50 for sure. Hit that milestone 11 months ago. My dad died three weeks later, had a colonoscopy three weeks after that (piece of cake, no homo), then had a vitreous fluid detachment in my left eye this past spring that resulted in a constant floater in my vision. This past summer brought a lot of anxiety and near panic attacks. Maybe it's a testosterone thing. Fuck getting old, but it beats the alternative.
you can have the floater removed with a vitrectomy if it becomes too bothersome to avoid. Not a difficult procedure.
Sheepishly gonna say I’m 54
I probably felt it a few years ago and particularly tied to a car accident I was in earlier this year that I’m still getting work done on. My body is just tired and when I’m off work I just sleep the entire weekend.
I probably felt it a few years ago and particularly tied to a car accident I was in earlier this year that I’m still getting work done on. My body is just tired and when I’m off work I just sleep the entire weekend.
I felt old when I no longer wanted to build shit, between the house in 2009 and everything else we have done since then up to the cabin, I'm just done. I want to build a garage and have several quotes coming in because I just don't want to do it. 35 I would be like fuck yeah, let's start digging.
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Same. It's work now, not fun. That shit used to be the most fun I could have.
Now when I finish a project I'm not even proud of it, I'm just glad that fuckin thing is behind me.
What the hell?
That‘s more personal stuff/emotional than age, though. You’ve had a rough season. It will return.
Hang tough.
Sitting watching football I just want to make pizza and wings, pull out some chips. Instead I’m sitting here with some water with lemon in it. I’ve got to work a little tonight after I’ll have some whiskey, but only one (maybe 2). Ten years ago I’d have finished my first 6 pack by now