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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.

Use it or lose it people.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

...fourties are when the little injuries start; nothing debilitating, just minor tweaks from time to time which surprise that your resilience isn't quite what it was twenty years ago...

...fifties are when they sneak up to get their revenge...

[–] Aspharr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As someone in my 30s I've been told that by folks in their 40s and 50s about hitting the 30s and so far besides a reduction in the ability to not get a hangover I'm not really seeing it.. I can't speak from experience so far but part of me wonders if that's not just folks projecting their own specific issues onto those younger than them.

I'm not casting shade on you specifically, I don't know your specific circumstances, it just makes me wonder how much of this is age vs how long folks have gone without exercise and have begun to atrophy. Kids play and run a lot so one could assume they're probably more fi than we are even if they're weaker and slower than us due to their size.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

...hey, you do you: the only thing i noticed by my late thirties was that working all-nighters hit me a little harder than it used to...

[–] Aspharr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's why I said I wasn't casting shade on your specific circumstances, since I don't know them. There definitely is a tangible difference as we age, so far I find it to be recovery times that are affected, I just find a lot of folks use that as a crutch to justify getting more and more out of shape. Not trying to project onto you or any one in particular.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...no offense taken at all, we share the same point that individual mileage may vary; as i've aged, though, i've noticed fourties and fifties sneak up on pretty much everyone across the spectrum...

...depsite my resolve that general fitness and activity prove a differentiator, i've come to accept that nobody escapes senescence...

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