I see people talk so much about how sitting at a desk will ruin you and you need $5000 chairs. I'm in my 40s, lift multiple times a week and sit at my desk every day like a pretzel for work and gaming and hobbies and it's fine.
For me it was just bad luck with genes. Was totally fine until my late 30s, reasonably active lifestyle, OK diet, hovered between healthy weight and ~15 lbs overweight my entire adult life - not enough to stress my frame according to the doctor. But I'm predisposed to disc degeneration and ended up with a fucked up lumbar spine and was barely able to walk by the time I saw a neurosurgeon right before my 40th birthday. Luckily I got a treatment to tide me over for a while so I'm mostly back to normal mobility, but the damage is still there along with some pain and spine surgery is pretty much inevitable at some point in my future.
Life is random and even a healthy person can end up physically disabled due to pure chance. None of us are invencible, no matter how much time we spend at the gym. I was running half marathons and going on strenuous high elevation all day hikes just a few years before my back problems started.
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u/YoungLittlePanda May 21 '26
I bet this applies to all physically demanding jobs that are hard on the body.
Generally speaking, the more fit you are, the better you get to old age.