Every injury you get before 27 is permanent, too. They just hide away until you hit middle age before popping up as recurring aches.
Yeah, suddenly they ALL come back with a vengeance when in your 40s…
Oh god yes! I wish to fuck I’d warmed up and stretched properly before exercise when I was young
I remember running from my car straight onto the field to play Ultimate (frisbee). Nowadays I hurt myself walking to the fridge.
I curled and played hockey in high school. Played a lot of ball hockey as an adult.
No amount of pre-game stretching helps. It helps you from fucking something up during the game, but it doesn’t prevent the long term wear and tear.
This is something only sedentary people say, like its some kind of universal truth but really all it is is the consequences of not exercising.
Meh, I’m 38, been very active my whole life (small blip because of the Vid and the crippling depression and chronic drinking that came with it), but I notice recovery time for injury, while not permanent, is way longer than it was at 27, and more for 18. Goes for exhaustion and hangovers too. Shit just lingers.
But we beat on, you know? Can’t just stop.
I work out 5 days a week. I fell while skiing for the first time and popped my knee in a bad way. It still hurts months later.
I’ve played hockey, curling, baseball, snowboard, football, running, and a variety of other outdoor games and such my entire adult life.
My body hurts. I’m turning 40 this year. The fact some dipshit like @verrymay@lemmy.world wants to be some condescending asshole? That type of comment comes from someone who’s never done any physical activity in their life.
I know people who have played various sports at extremely high levels. Their bodies hurt just the same. This dipshit probably gets winded walking to the fridge.
You sound like someone working out and complaining they ache after a car crash.
There is a difference between being a couch potato and just normally active and being a professional athlete and doing destructive sports.
You’ve never broken your ankle I see.
This is something that only privileged people who haven’t really been injured and don’t have bad genes say.
wfh is not good for my body. it can be hard to get proper movement in on busy days where everything is a priority and shit keeps coming up.
it definitely takes more intention to keep up an appropriate level of activity, both during the work day and before/after. I didn’t have these issues before wfh
Was working in an office really any better in that regard?
yes. I have much farther to go to get to the coffee machine or washroom, and people flag me down on the way to talk about whatever problem they’re having. or I give a hand to someone who is moving something, or just take a minute to stand and see how the progress is on building the machine
for me, very much different from just sitting or standing in front of my desk and going ten steps to the bathroom and 25 to the kitchen
also for the second part, it’s a lot easier to fall into the trap of never going “out” if you wfh and are already set to get comfy on the couch. if you have a commute, you’re already out. lower barrier. not a big one, and mostly mental - but it’s there. which is why common advice that I very much agree with is to create some sort of commute when you wfh, even if that’s just a two minute walk around the block.
If you have the time to do it at the office you have the time to do the equivalent at home. If your problem is that you need some kind of goal to get your exercise, I can only really say to make exercise your goal (get over yourself).
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Copying my comment from another reply because fuck you.
I was temporarily paralyzed when I was 14 at a Cadet fitness weekend when I was in grade 8. Even though I gained movement again I’m still stuck with back pain and I’m turning 40 this year.
My right wrist is fucked from creative writing in college.
My right knee hurts day to day from ball hockey. My right shoulder the same thing from getting tripped and hyper-extending it on the court.
My left knee hurts day to day driving a transport truck with a clutch for the past 8 years. Also hockey from being a goalie in my early days.
No, there are a LOT of things that happen along the way that become permanent. Outside of my spinal issues most of my day to day pain is from adulthood.
After a few months you forget what caused *that* particular hurt…
Major injuries after 27 are permanent
Minor injuries after 27 take months, years before they heal
Her podcast, Dungeons and Daddies, is pretty great if you’re into actual play.
Even if you’re not, really.
And hey, Ashlee Birch is in the new season!Ashly agreeing to that just so her brother would have to hear it every episode is a peak sibling prank move
Please, please be careful. Don’t put yourself in a situation where you can get injured even in a boring, mundane way. You never recover fully from injuries. They stay with you, even if you don’t notice it.
Sometimes life won’t give you a choice. I broke my pinky… crouching down to change a diaper. Mallet finger. Weirdly easy to snap.
I herniated a cervical disc simply sitting up to get out of bed. As an athletic 17-year-old. Have had arthritis in the neck as a result since I was about 30.
Way too many people here think injuries and health problems are always that person’s fault.
Make sure you’re meeting all of your body’s nutritional needs and not poisoning it too much because that shouldn’t be the case until much later. Also exercise and see a physiotherapist if you have any chronic issues with your joints before a pain devolves into an injury.
I used to have an issue with my shoulders but it turned out to just be happening because my poor posture and lack of physical activity resulted in some of the shoulder support muscles being too weak to support some things like leaning on my shoulder while lying down without suffering for it the next day. A physiotherapist gave me a short list of exercises to do and my shoulders are great today, despite it being years since I last did any of those exercises, though I do make a conscious effort to put my shoulders back into a good posture whenever I’m about to do something with them that involves force. That might have become a permanent injury if I hadn’t strengthened those muscles up and did something that caused them to tear or the joint to dislocate.
Unless you live in America. If you do, you just get a sheet on basic exercises, and an appointment for physical therapy 8 years out.
Wish this were true and I was actually invincible as a teenager. I would have a lot more of my parts still. Also my fucking knees and lower back wouldn’t be blown out already.
I haven’t experienced this problem yet and I am in my 30s.
Some of us get lucky a lot. Watch your back. No, literally, take care of your back.
I went for a short walk recently in new shoes and rubbed the back of my ankle slightly raw. It’s been two weeks waiting for this minor abrasion to heal. I’ve got shit to do! This is biking weather, damnit.
Moleskin! Excellent for protecting blisters and abrasions.
Also, two weeks? You want to tell your doctor if abrasions on your feet are taking a long time to heal.
You don’t ever get over a injury, you just kind of forget about the pain after awhile.
It’s pretty easy when it just amalgamates into the previous other pains.
Hah!
All of my catastrophic injuries before 27 are also permanent!
Yay?
You’re invincible from teens to early twenty’s. Around 25 is when you become officially old by most accounts (and even mentally I felt it), and your body slowly deteriorates and finding yourself increasingly more tired. The metabolism changes and can’t handle alcohol and can’t drink alcoholic drinks anymore because the liver can’t handle it.
Thankfully, there are nonalcoholic versions of my favourite drink but it’s not the same as getting the buzz 🤣
Lookup Louis CK shitty ankle
Maybe you just need to have one every day until your body is just one big, calcified injury, then nothing will be an injury.
Source: Blue Collar worker
