I don’t know what you youngsters are doing but my everything didn’t start to hurt until I passed 50.
I joked with my mom about how everything started hurting after 25, and she was baffled because for her the aches also only started after 50.
I’m guessing you exercise regularly? I suspect the young pains thing is mostly from living a sedentary lifestyle.
I’m about to turn 50 and nothing hurts on a regular basis
Walking/running/hiking, a light lifting program, a calisthenics program, pick two to defy the reaper of joints.
wait til you reach your 110s, that’s when things really start cramping
Personally, I’ll become a mind in an anthropomorphic machine in the highly unlikely event that the technology gets there in the 25-40 years I have left lol.
Lizards are cool and all, but being cold-blooded only works for capitalists and have you ever tried playing Fallout New Vegas without hands?
Staying active helps mitigate this issue. Not fully, but it helps.
“Oh no I eat garbage and rarely do physical activity why oh why do I hurt when I do even the smallest things?” - Me, before I started getting out and doing things.
I’m well past 30 and do not have this problem.
Either people have old injuries that are coming back to haunt them, bad genes, or they need to get their asses some exercise.
I assumed the joke was that as you get older things are just more stiff and you don’t recover as fast. Yeah, it can be reduced with more exercise/activity but you’re still getting older.
There was an event where this became apparent for me. I played softball for years in my 20s. Stopped for a bit and returned in my 30s. I was actually in better shape when I returned. One day mid-season, I was rounding first base, not even particularly fast, and I felt something tweek. By the end of the day I was stuck on the couch and could barely move. I had to take the next day off.
I don’t think that’s what the meme is saying, it really shouldn’t need interpretation. However, I agree with the rest of what you said. Youth gets strength, endurance, and faster recovery. If you’re older, you can still hold on to strength, but endurance and recovery take hits with time.
To be fair though, the soreness from regular exercise is what you get in the tradeoff. I have both a regular cardio and strength program I run through every week (5 days of exercise) and a pretty active lifestyle (2 days of outdoor activities every week (hiking, mountainbiking, splitboarding,etc)) and I am generally sore at least somewhere in my body.
I’m not sure why this needed to be said. The normal soreness from exercise is expected and in a way desirable because you know it’s “working”. Those muscles are taking damage and being rebuilt in a simple way of saying it. This is part of the process that keeps you healthy and fit. That’s entirely different from hurting for unknown reasons when doing nothing.
I think there’s a non-zero percentage of people that confuse being sore with having unexplained pain. And there’s probably also another group of people that think they can excercise without being sore, given how lots of people exercise tout it as fixing all pain, which might set incorrect expectations.
Anyway, I am just sharing my own experiences.
Yeah, over 30 is when your shit diet and lack of exercise catches up with you more and more. Exercise starts to not be optional if you don’t want to feel like shit.
Yep.
Quit going to the gym thanks to covid and just started back up a couple months ago. I thought I felt fine before. After a month at the gym just doing super-basic, non-stressful cardio to just improve overall health and I realized that nope, I was not fine. Way better now even after just a month with 4 days a week at the gym and low-impact exercise.
Getting off your ass is highly valuable.
Agreed. It’s almost like this comedical graphic/text was made by someone who thinks 30 is like being 60 or something…not even close. Lol
