This is a character inside everyone and it’s like a level boss … the more years pass, the bigger the pain level boss … you can easily beat the early bosses but eventually they get harder and harder to fight until eventually the pain boss kills you.
I’m almost 50 and even with regular exercise … things are still not easy. You have to maintain a certain level of activity and if you just get off one or two days, it will take you a week to jump back to the same level again. A year ago, I got excited and went running around with my little nieces and nephews for a game of lazer tag. I did shuttle running without thinking for about an hour. I thought I did great, everyone thought I was in great shape and an athlete … I felt like I was 18 again. I couldn’t move out of bed the next morning and my muscles cramped up for two or three days after … it took me a couple of weeks to get back to normal. Enjoy what you have … the end, beginning of the end or the ending is closer than you think.
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.
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.
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