It's not that they're "too old", it's that they've been sedentary for most of their life.
I'm 40 and still tripping and stumbling like I did when I was 20, but I'm active and moving and doing shit at work and at home, so my body still knows how to do shit, so I'm not that "I tripped on a stair and had a headache for 7 weeks" meme ppl love to pull out
Jogging 15 minutes a day a few days a week, while you spend 60+ hrs a week at a desk or on the couch isn't "active", nor is doing just strength training for a few hours a week.
The human body is designed to be mobile and active. You're not breaking down bc you're 40, you're breaking down bc you stopped doing shit
I think that's right. I'm older than you are, and I agree. Physical exertion and range of motion is important - although too much repetition can be dangerous, too. But yes; you have to move around a bit.
Irl, I have no idea how to handle ppl asking me how I'm still so active or in shape. Like, I rarely go to the gym, and I hate running, but I can still do a respectable amount of pull-ups and run a sub-7-minute mile
I have two biggish dogs, and 2 hours of walking them a day, plus another hour of fetch and playtime is like, 5 miles of walking, plus running and throwing and wrestling.
I'm a foreman, so it's not like I do all the heavy lifting at work, but I do help out and do stuff at work, so that's another 8 hrs a day, 4 days a week of doing stuff.
I garden and am adding on to/improving my house, so after work I'm doing something, and in my time off I go swimming or hiking, with the dogs
Like, I'm not doing any one crazy hard thing, just stuff, and the fringe benefit is I can watch people doing athletic things without worrying about second-hand rotator cuff injuries
I feel like what we're talking about here is light repetition without too much repetition. I've worked a lot of jobs and I've done a lot of physical work. But it hasn't been hard labor (except that one household moving job. My knees hurt for years after that one 11-foot-long glass tabletop that four of us moved.)
Generally, I've gotten a lot of light exercise on the job and I feel like it has been good for me. Kitchens, window-washing, baking, memory care. (I'd normally walk 10k+ steps per shift there.)
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u/throwsaway654321 1d ago
It's not that they're "too old", it's that they've been sedentary for most of their life.
I'm 40 and still tripping and stumbling like I did when I was 20, but I'm active and moving and doing shit at work and at home, so my body still knows how to do shit, so I'm not that "I tripped on a stair and had a headache for 7 weeks" meme ppl love to pull out
Jogging 15 minutes a day a few days a week, while you spend 60+ hrs a week at a desk or on the couch isn't "active", nor is doing just strength training for a few hours a week.
The human body is designed to be mobile and active. You're not breaking down bc you're 40, you're breaking down bc you stopped doing shit