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I mean this in all positivity. Move around and lose weight if you’re sporting it. I’m over 40 and I’m in better shape than I was in my 20s because I move around a lot (owning a farm helps) but it’s no excuse to not move if you don’t. Stop being sedentary. Move and eat less. You will be surprised how little it takes to feel good again.
I eat twice a day, I never stop moving.
I would say I’m doing better than most people at 40 if I hadn’t smoked since I was 10.
I have something wrong with some nerves in my back though. Shit tingles to an annoying level if I carry my kids around.
OK well my counter story is that I move a lot for work too and I’m only slightly overweight but my upper back feels like it’s going to break in half when I wake up in the mornings, and my lower back tingles like a 9 volt battery to the tongue just always. 32 yo.
I guess just do whatever and maybe your back will feel fine and maybe it won’t. Just like all health advice.
My cousin did construction work for a number of years and it wore this body out. He had to retire in his 40s.
You might need a better mattress if that’s how you wake up like that. Especially if it gets better during the day.
Also quit smoking, vaping, anything with nicotine, which causes your discs to degrade faster.
I have degenerative disc disease at 42, I’m looking at multiple fusions.
I’ve been suffering from severe sciatica for 6 months now. I am 33. I am in shape, exercise every day including running, yoga, and lifting. Gunna get steroid shots to hopefully help me break the cycle.
I got sciatica at 37. I exercised regularly, running, yoga, lifting… What fixed it? Regular walking. Yep. Just an hour of walking around fixed the issue yoga and weight lifting couldn’t.
Got sciatica a few years ago, it was sudden and excruciating. Luckily it went away by itself, and so far it hasn’t come back.
I couldn’t even lift my foot 10cm
Pinched nerve?
I guess
Are you doing deloaded weeks to help with recovery?
Rn I pretty much only walk for exercise, plus the PT exercises focused on strengthening supporting muscles and providing spine extension.
If I sit on the couch playing vidya games for 2 hours, my back hurts for 2 days.
The gamer in me says to set a timer and stop playing at 1:59.
Stop at 1:59 and let stamina quickly recover before continuing. OP obviously not a real gamer.
Am or Pm?
Hopefully PM because also gamer me has no gd idea how to stop gaming at 1:59 am even if I have work in the morning.
Better ergs? More pillows? Shorter sessions?
need a cat with a nervous bladder you have to take to the litter box to interrupt your sitting sessions
Awwdly specific
Not quite there yet. I’m thin and pretty active. But I take a lot of beatings and my bones just…fucking ache.
100% encourage anyone past 30 to start working on your core strength, a sore back can frequently be caused by a weak core. I only take started focusing on that when I turned 40 and it’s made a huge difference! Just a few minutes a day or every couple of days is all it takes. Get a kettlebell, do 30 swings, then a 1-2 minute plank, then 30 more swings and you’re done. It will really help with the back pain, believe me!
I do like 10 kettlebell swings, no plank (because I hate it) and my back has magically just become young again. It feels a little bit cool to swing that bad boy too.
I do sincerely recommend.
If you hate plank and don’t have a kettlebell yet, start with some dead bugs.
What exactly is a swing? Cause I just imagine spinning in circles letting it go and destroying my TV. I assume back and forth? Or in front of me? Over my head? 90 degrees?
If you have 60 spare TVs to break everyday, that works out perfectly. Otherwise, I recommend watching this tutorial:
No joke I might actually go out and buy one today if it’s this easy to do in my apartment.
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Air squats. Do them.
At least for flexibility and balance. They’re a nothing burger for strength, but strength can only come after your body can actually move without hurting itself.
I can’t because I’m past 40
I was there at 16
Wait, I am 30…
It’s not so much that your spine is old at 30. it’s more that our body is not really adjusted to our fucking modern lifestyle. and also it seems to me, a lot of backpain is psychological. i.e., anxiety and stuff leads to lower back pain and such.
Yoga and strength training help quite a bit, but I always found the biggest help was to sleep well. I found sleeping in a hammock basically got rid of any lower back pain, but I’m sure a good bed will help as well.
I’m basically 40 and deadlift in the 700s pretty frequently. You can bulletproof your back if you have the will
I don’t know how some people do it. The max I can do without being incapacitated in bed is like 185 lbs, which is a farcry from what I heard you should be able to deadlift twice your weight.
I’m working on it, but a lot of my issues stem from repetitive motion injuries.
Lol, at 46 my heart said ‘nah man, let’s just stop’. 🤷
If I ever actually have a heart attack, I’m not sure if I would think it’s a heart attack or a panic attack simply because the first time I ever had a debilitating panic attack, it felt like the way everyone I’ve known to have a heart attack described them (hard to breath, intense chest pains, left srm went numb, etc) and called an ambulance just to find out it was anxiety.
Same thing happened to me recently. Super fun loop.
- Have panic attack
- Symptoms mimic heart attack
- Panic more
- Mimics heart attack harder
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 until EKG, X-ray, and blood test come back clear, and doc gives benzos.
At least now I know it’s a panic attack so it doesn’t feed itself as aggressively.
It’s easy to miss but I didn’t say heart attack. My heart stopped beating and I stopped breathing. Never experienced any of the typical symptoms, non smoker and drinker. I literally dropped dead and was lucky that everything afterwards went well (aside from the trauma inducing situation of course).
The cause is unknown to this day.
Can check this out at the olympics. Sports that require flexibility like gymnastics and you have essentially kids. Sports around muscle like weight lifting and you get much older and ones that revolve around target shooting and you can get much older folk winning.
this is only true if you dont do anything with your life but just sit down in one spot all day and all night. im 38 and i feel find inside and out.
Yoga helps 👍
Stretching in general helps, it doesn’t even have to be yoga. Though a good yoga routine makes it easier to hit most of the major areas.
Agreed, I just wanted to mention the yoga 😁
I also don’t want to discount yoga! It’s good motion and position trianing and definitely stretches plenty, at least for ‘tight’ people like me.
I just wanted to point out that one doesn’t need to do an entire routine just for stretching. (although still, yoga’s a great way to start a journey with exercise, especially if someone isn’t a self-starter type)
