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.
And or being overweight. Took me awhile to figure out why people started talking about pains starting in their 30s.
Yup, I’ve started working out specifically so getting older sucks less.
It’s truer than most realize.
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.
I’m convinced that a rather large portion of lower back pain is from atrophied hamstrings.
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.