Am I old too soon?

[marcoalza]

Re: Am I old too soon?

I work on everything that I own, down to pulling the transmission on my truck and pulling the 454 from the boat and doing everything but the machine work. I'll be 52 next month and I hurt like hell for 3 days after I work on anything. I am fit and 5'-10" 175 lbs and everything hurts more than it did a couple of years ago.

What the heck is happening to me? I feel old.

mzahn I was in exactly the same situation a coupla years ago.
I was always pretty fit as a young lad, training in the gym and running 3 or 4 miles 5 times a week.
That all went by the wayside a few years ago until I bought my boat.
With the heat here I also found myself exhausted after prepping, launching, even simple tasks like dropping anchor would leave me breathless.
Now for the last year I have got back into a simple regime; I work some weights every morning to build my upper body up a bit, only 5 minutes of exercise but the most important thing I do is run each evening, again only a mile as minimum, 2 miles when it's cooler.
The difference is incredible.
It's now so much easier to do things and less aches and pains the following day.

I'm 52 my friend and your should get out there and get your bits moving.

 

[Jeep Man]

Re: Am I old too soon?

I'm 56 and in good shape. ROUND is a shape, isn't it.

 

[coastalrichard]

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But on a positive note the 56 year old brother says viagra makes you feel 26 again, thank god for modern medicine!

OMG...that's a SCARY thought, right there

 

[JEBar]

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at 65 (very close to turning 66) I don't remember a lot of things ..:redface:.. I do know that 20 - 30 years ago I'd take on projects that today I look at, smile, and walk away .... I realized I had to give up playing on various city league teams when I just didn't heal up from turned ankles and such anywhere near as quickly as I used to .... as others have noted, when it becomes fun not to hurt, you have transitioned to a different state of existence ..

Jim

 

[NYBo]

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Just turned 56. I stopped doing a lot of the repair work I used to do; life is too short to spend it in pain if you don't have to.

Be glade you have it, after the evening I have had will never colpain about pain again. My brother and dear friend died about 5:45 tonight while taking a nap. He has had many health problems over the years an didn't complain so the next time I take my 53 year old butt to the limit at work will be so glade I can still feel those pains.

My condolences for your loss. I also lost my brother recently.

 

[jkust]

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Ok i'm a bit younger, but don't do a bit of labor in my job so I would get soar as well. What kicked me in the butt was when I started skiing with a hard core group of guys out West and they'd kick my but the whole week but were between 10 and 20 years older. My legs would be burned out by the thrird day. I joined the gym last February and have packed on 20 lbs of muscle since with serious lifting and diet. Now I love to do the stuff that would make me soar previously. Now however I worked up to such heavy weights for sets that one of my knees is injured. While i'm in nearly the best shape of my life, my knees and tendons apparently don't know that.

 

[Colorado04]

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I had my 44th birthday about a month ago. The bigest difference that I feel now aside from feeling a little heaver is that I have lost that "invinsible" feeling. What ever I do, I do my best to prevent injury. Way too many consiquences now if I can't go to work because of a preventable injury.

I sence we all feel a little A...G...E setting in.

 

[Deadwood]

Re: Am I old too soon?

On the subject of age please let me share with you, my iboats friends, a little about someone that I've been in awe of for years.
To all of you who have suffered losses recently I send my condolences. We too are grieving. I lost my Dad in '83 and neither of my boys got to meet him. So when, by chance, we came to know the man affectionately known as "Pop's" I believe it was divine intervention. Our families "adopted" each other after my youngest son spent most of his 11 year old summer (my son is soon to be 21) with him and his wife at their modest ranch outside of Jackson Hole.
My son came home a different boy. Oh he loved sports and fishing and was a great student but what Pop's let him experience was on a totally different plane than what he had been used to. The short version was he came back a cowboy who now really loved to fish and hunt and also learned to back a gooseneck horse trailer and do some welding. I'll never forget talking to him on the phone that year: ("Dad, when we got back and Granny found out that I drove the truck on the hi-way because Pop's told me to......I got MY butt chewed....not Pop's..")
The respect and love for the great outdoors that I've attempted to instill in my boys was dramatically increased by just being around him.
Pop's was a WWII vet who had endured a hit that left him with a greatly enlarged left leg. I guess the shrapnel ruined a lot of the vessels to where it couldn't recover. Rest assured that the amount of penicilin that he had taken since the war ended was a very, very large cc number. Nevertheless he pulled those wranglers on skin tight everyday and never mentioned the pain and when friends or family were concerned the word's "won't", "can't" or "no" just didn't exist in his language.
Husband, father, mechanic, welder, fabricator, catskinner, truck driver, horseman, hunter, fisher, snowmobiler, boater, drag boater, VFW local President, Lion, ....I'm could go on and on and on....
Pop's passed last Friday.....from traumatic injuries sustained early in August. He was helping out his best friend, working under a 5th wheel travel trailer on the axle when something happened to the jack.....
Pop's was 88. I will never be the same....but his pain has finally ended.
If I could be a quarter of the man............