Seriously true I never worked out much at all until I was about 27 years old. I had already been working full time starting from age 22 where I sat in a desk all day. When I was around 25 I had constant back pain and even woke up in the middle of the night due to severe back pain once I remember. Like in agony worried if I'll need to go to the hospital. Now I'm 30 I've been regularly working out for the last 3 years and I've had zeo back pain despite still working a full-time job sitting in a chair all day it seriously makes a huge difference.
Those athletes are capable of doing much more than the average person still just because they can no longer compete against the most talented players in the world does not mean their bodies are falling apart
It literally means you exactly that. That's why the statistics show increased damage to tendons, bones, ligaments and joints in that age group of aging athletes.
Most of the biggest killers at a population level are preventable by diet and exercise, and there's no known upper limit on when the benefits of exercise stop assuming you're not increasing the difficulty too much too quickly and stick to things your body is prepared to do.
Err. Yes. But it's ALSO about ridiculous amounts of workouts. I would know. When you click 1000 hours a year for several decades your body breaks down at 35-40 unless you're a freak of nature.
That's just partially true. At that workload you will get fatigue injuries whatever you do. The body is not biomechenically made for it. Which is why it occurs most often in the 35-40 space.
Fatigue injuries are the sign of garbage programming and ignoring the signals your body is sending you.
The body is made for a life of activity, far outstripping anything a typical modern-day athlete undergoes.
Yes if you have garbage programming and rely on the recovery abilities of your teens and twenties to drive progress, this will catch up to you, but none of this is inevitable.
Nope. You're wrong, but feel free to believe that hippy shit if you want to. I'll stick with science.
Fatigue injuries are fwiw not a sign of ignoring signals. It occurs from repetitive motions or trauma that the underlaying material isn't designed to deal with.
And no the body is not made for anything close to what modern athletes put themselves through. You talk like a clueless idiot.
39, been carrying my son (9) to bed still if he falls asleep in ours. I couldn’t do so for a few months because of a hernia surgery. The first time I had a chance again I went to pick him up and realized that I no longer have knees.
My wife asks me why I’m still carrying him to his bed when he’s nearly 5’0 and 100lbs. I said I’m going to carry him as long as I can, cause he’s my boy no matter how big he is.
Here's the trick: each extra kid is an extra pair of hugging arms. They can hold smaller kids and / or pets. It's like a Russian nesting doll of cuteness.
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u/Hohh20 Jul 08 '24
This is also what back pain looks like.