I'm 43 and rarely have aches (certainly nothing that would qualify as chronic), but I also regularly walk to and from the gym to weightlift. There's a saying "Movement is Medicine" and so far it seems to be proving true for me. Maybe if you don't use it you lose it.
I'm a bigger, tall guy. 6'4", and in my mid 20's 280+lbs. I was hired to deal with big heavy stuff. I'm no body builder by any means. Just larger framed. Still, often was hired to be a two legged horse. At the time I could do it. Now, I'm paying for it.
Personally, I'll become a mind in an anthropomorphic machine in the highly unlikely event that the technology gets there in the 25-40 years I have left lol.
Lizards are cool and all, but being cold-blooded only works for capitalists and have you ever tried playing Fallout New Vegas without hands?
"Oh no I eat garbage and rarely do physical activity why oh why do I hurt when I do even the smallest things?" - Me, before I started getting out and doing things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Will turn 30 this month. I walked a few kilometers and my legs hurt. A couple of years ago I had a date where we had walked 30km during a night and I felt great back then.
When I was writing this message, my back demanded a stretch, which I've provided, not without pain in my shoulders.
I am really started to consider a suicide at 40. I just can't live inside this rack of a body.
Maybe there is a problem with your lifestyle? Otherwise, you might have a medical condition, you should see a doctor. 30 is young. Walking a few kilometers is something you should be able and do daily, or at least a few times a week. I work mostly with people in their 50 and pretty much all of them are in great shape. Also, US seems to have an overweight problem that affect people on many aspect of their health. It can be hard (tell me about it) but changing food habit can have major impact.
Earlier today, my knee just started hurting a lot for no reason. Not an old injury flaring up, no bad movements or anything. It just decided that my day was going too well 😄
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.
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.
Try over 40 and overweight! Earlier today, my knee started hurting, as much as a medium severity sports injury would in my teens or 20s, for absolutely no discernable reason!
And that's not even an old injury flaring up or anything, that's just my body falling apart because I'm getting old and haven't taken good enough care of it! I shudder to think what it'll be like in a decade or two 😬😆