I did actually fuck my back the other day and can barely walk at the moment. I’m 33. Kill me. Or send help. Ideally Rub A5-35… why is that shit so expensive?
What no one ever banks on for their old age is the cognition and ability to think properly.
It’s a lifelong gamble. Once you go past the 50 mark, the lottery gets riskier and riskier.
I know a couple of old friends that started early Parkinson disease and dementia like diseases at about 50 - 60. And I know plenty of people who made it to 60 - 70 physically but not mentally. I have one dear old friend who is 75, she has great heart, her body will last for a long time, she comes from a long line of long lived women in her Irish Canadian family but she has alzheimers and her mind and memory are fading. What’s the use of living that long if your brain is dying before the rest?
I hope I can keep my mind into old age but there is no guarantee of that.
It’s knees for me, but I made the amazing decision of working a career that requires standing on concrete all day everyday. It adds up.
Came here to say, “Knees have joined the chat.”
What are some decisions I can make as a relatively young person to protect my knees? Already starting to feel the pain there. I work a desk job, so for me, I think it’s not exercising properly.
Same. Working on hands and knees for more than a few minutes at a time ONCE per day is about my comfortable limit. Any more than that and I am really paying for it.
They say the column is lacking muscles to stabilize itself. I’m in search of success stories. Anyone here who fixed his/her back issues with core strength exercises and whatnot?
E: thanks for your replies! It works you say, fine. Now I need to find a way to motivate my stressed and sometimes tired me to some helpful exercise routine. :)
Yep it didn’t magically make me young again or anything but calisthenics/weight training helped me get my back in order, I used to hurt so bad after a shoot day and randomly would start hurting just from doing random things, that’s all pretty much gone now.
My back problems went away after starting strength training (deadlift/rows/crunch machine) for abt 1yr. Have started to slowly return now that i cant go to the gym bc work (~2yrs w/o)
My dad had a slipped disk and some other issues from a bad injury in his youth. He lifted and swam nearly every day and it helped him significantly.
Stretches and calisthenics. I jog three times a week too (12 months ago I would’ve laughed at you if you suggested I’d do that), and my back only ever hurts if I sleep wonky.
I hurt my back pretty bad a few years ago doing leg presses at the gym and had pain every morning until I started doing squats. I’m pain-free now as long as I don’t go more than two months between workouts.
Reminder to do some deadlifts from time to time. I started doing a push pull legs workout with my 68 year old mother and in a year and a half she is feeling better than ever. We started slow with body weights exercises, then resistance bands and now she is doing dumbells!
For me, it’s my knees. I have a fairly physical job and I mentor high school students building robots, so I really really pay for it on the days where I have to work on my hands and knees for more than a few minutes.
Mid 40ies here, just pulled my back (yet, yet, yet again) by stretching in bed. Walking like a duck this morning, grunting to lift my coffee cup from the table. Again. Fuck me, this is shit.
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