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My whole body started hurting when I turned 21 and started working at factories and warehouses, and it still hurts because I work on a farm but it's what I like to do so I take the good with the bad.
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.
Yea I'm just about 40 and have no more aches than I did when I was 20. If you are fit and not overweight you likely won't have pains into your 50s.
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.
You absolutely can exercise without being sore. If you head over to /fitness on that other social media site there are plenty of people who can vouch for the fact that doing some decent lifting can end up in a spot where soreness doesn’t happen. I’ve been there, and it kinda sucks because that soreness is sort of a mental reward that “heck yeah, I did work today” and when it’s gone you miss it.
I think people are smart enough to know the difference between not working out and still sore/having pains, temporary exertion and hurting oneself causing soreness/pain,and workout soreness.
I’m not sure that pursuing the semantics of the words and subjective feelings of the differences between soreness and pain is worth pursuing here.
You'd be surprised how many people don't know the difference between being sore and having pain, but I digress. I never wanted to discuss semantics, just make a jokey comment about trading pain for discomfort. Forget I mentioned it.
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.
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
Made by a 15 year old.
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.
I’m 40ish and don’t have any regular pains. This sentiment is so fucking overdone
How do you do it ?! answers, thorbot !! I want answers !
I don’t eat processed shitty foods. I get my heart rate up 30 mins a day. I sleep 7 hours a night. Also, I guess genetic luck is a thing. I don’t have any major health issues.
Pragmatic. Thank you for this answer
Sure. I’m not in amazing shape by any means, could use to lose a few pounds. But not obese. And all my friends in my age group have similar levels of health so this “I’m 30 and now my whole body is fucked” rhetoric is weird to me
I think it's mostly hyperbole
It sure is pervasive though
Don't be overweight, exercise.
OK that one got me, but only because i've been watching a bunch of Zelda LOTADs.
This line of humor is fucking weak and self-defeating.
So many people seem to just be waiting to die.
it's just lighthearted hyperbole
I interpreted it as joke about being super old and not suicidal.
Irony becomes reality when one keeps on spouting it.
You will get old even if you don't joke about being old. I think you either misunderstood me or replied to the wrong comment.
Well... After leap from 2019 to this day... Many lost their sanity although still appearing sane on the surface
I'm 22 and everything already hurts all the time, I usually need help with basic house chores at this point cause i need so much time to rest
That's not normal and you should probably see a doctor. Condolences fellow human.
Yeah you right. they're just expensive as hell out here and I don't make enough money to guarantee I'd survive if I went to one
America moment?
America moment.
Turning 50 this month, and I feel pretty good. I have a few niggles here and there, but I stay active and that helps a lot.
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