Turning 20 was weird but I got used to it. The next few birthdays weren't bad until I hit 25, which is when I realized I had reached unc status. I'm turning 27 soon and the realization that I'm pushing 30 is kinda messing me up. This aging stuff is no joke. Does it get easier? Or does it just keep getting more depressing? Like does turning 30 hit harder than turning 20? Does 40 hit harder than 30? Etc. Or do you just accept it at some point
50, seriously 50 is like hitting a freakin wall. For someone that is not overweight, very healthy, my joints aches no matter what workout I try or do, injuries are constant, I have no power to jump, there's no power when I stride. Every morning is either a new ache to add to the list, or an old one amplified.
I like working out. I LOVE running, but honestly when every step and every run is just nothing but pain, you just lose the desire. I cant remember the last time I went for a run and just enjoyed being out there for an hour.
45 is when I suddenly noticed that I’m old. Going to trendy restaurants, I’m definitely in the top quartile by age.
I’m almost 47, and I’m really happy. I still run 4-5 days per week, have great kids and wife, and can pretty much do whatever I want (short of owning a Waterfront mansion or a new Ferrari).
I’m not that far off my PRs running wise, except at the shorter distances. I never had great speed, but now it’s gone. I could touch the rim on a 10ft hoop, now I can barely touch a 9ft ceiling and it hurts when I try. Not sure how much is age and how much is just that I never do explosive type exercises.
I think 50 will be okay. 60 is probably going to be depressing. But it’s inevitable and it’s all relative to how healthy you are.
50, seriously 50 is like hitting a freakin wall. For someone that is not overweight, very healthy, my joints aches no matter what workout I try or do, injuries are constant, I have no power to jump, there's no power when I stride. Every morning is either a new ache to add to the list, or an old one amplified.
I like working out. I LOVE running, but honestly when every step and every run is just nothing but pain, you just lose the desire. I cant remember the last time I went for a run and just enjoyed being out there for an hour.
That's not good. 😯 If you're that bad at 50 what are you going to look like at 60? Cane? Walker? Lol
I think I'll end up with knee replacement within the next 10 years.
The older you get the faster the bad changes come.
In my 20’s and 30’s bad changes, we’re just perceptive slowing in my running. In the 40’s and 50’s the changes came every year or so.
Major changes in your 60’s come nearly monthly…When I was 63, I could still run 50 mile weeks . I ran 27 weeks over 50 miles a week during a 23 month period between 63-65.
When I hit 68, I knew I was gonna die. A 37 mile week and I’m comatose with my eyes open watching Perry Mason re-reruns, contently, the rest of the day after a workout and the hours fly by.
No complaints. I see everyday on X, tributes to 18 year old guys that were killed in Vietnam.
My running was cooked at around 45. Hitting 50 isn't so bad. I am getting close to 55 and am really feeling the clock running out. Kids will be going away to college. I really have no desire to retire, but also hate my job and really need a change.
No, aging doesn't hit them harder, faster and more cruel; they just have farther to fall, since they had an automatic privilege that fades away leaving them closer to being where the vast majority of men are at. Men handle it better because they never fell off so hard, many were invisible or undesirable their entire lives.
You are wrong. Aging hits women a lot harder and faster. Woman age like milk while men age like wine.
If you are a 40 year old man and keep fit you will look great.
If you are a 40 year old woman and keep fit you will look decent, but no where near what you looked like at 25.
It's called hitting the wall and woman hit it hard around 30.
You will never meet a 40 year old woman who looks better than her 25 year old self (excluding scenarios like losing 150 pounds, etc).
It just isn't true. You don't think men age the same because you don't take as much notice of how men look (assuming you're heterosexual).
Ask a gay man if men look as good at 40 as they do at 25 and they'll say no.
You are wrong. Aging hits women a lot harder and faster. Woman age like milk while men age like wine.
If you are a 40 year old man and keep fit you will look great.
If you are a 40 year old woman and keep fit you will look decent, but no where near what you looked like at 25.
It's called hitting the wall and woman hit it hard around 30.
You will never meet a 40 year old woman who looks better than her 25 year old self (excluding scenarios like losing 150 pounds, etc).
It just isn't true. You don't think men age the same because you don't take as much notice of how men look (assuming you're heterosexual).
Ask a gay man if men look as good at 40 as they do at 25 and they'll say no.
I'm not going to get into a who looks better men or women argument. However regardless of how women in their 40s and 50s look the effect of hormonal changes on women is greater than anything men deal with. My prostate might have enlarged and the time between orgasms might increase but men don't go through menopause, we're not getting mammograms, nor or we worried about D&Cs, and whether or not we should take hormone replacement therapies.
* You notice your parents becoming elderly. They've probably retired. You feel a responsibility towards them.
* If you have a desk job, by now you should be in management. If not, you're probably not management material, and your career is probably on borrowed time. Also, you may be already "old" for some careers such as tech.
* Dating opportunities are seriously lacking. I noticed a huge drop-off from age 30 to 35 in the number of matches I could get on dating apps.
* This is the age where your friends who are married start having kids. This makes you realize that you should probably start having kids. But you can't (See previous point).
ha! this is a ridiculous take on ALL of these points, coming from someone with a career in tech and much older than this!
Listen, at every age you have to take stock of where you're at. And eventually, you'll simply be thankful that you are still taking stock!
I turned 30 this year. It wasn't a big deal. I've always thought of 35 as the end of young adulthood and the beginning of middle age. That'll probably hit harder.
Hi, Josh439! I agree 30 was a non-event. Turning 35 next month.
As a 42 F, the best part of aging is having the license to just brush off other people's dumb opinions. In your 20s and 30s, it's hard to really see that other people's perception of you is almost always irrelevant.
But to answer your question, it seems for women the age that hits hardest is whenever you're in peak menopause.
You are wrong. Aging hits women a lot harder and faster. Woman age like milk while men age like wine.
If you are a 40 year old man and keep fit you will look great.
If you are a 40 year old woman and keep fit you will look decent, but no where near what you looked like at 25.
It's called hitting the wall and woman hit it hard around 30.
You will never meet a 40 year old woman who looks better than her 25 year old self (excluding scenarios like losing 150 pounds, etc).
It just isn't true. You don't think men age the same because you don't take as much notice of how men look (assuming you're heterosexual).
Ask a gay man if men look as good at 40 as they do at 25 and they'll say no.
You are so, so wrong.
Most men and women will look better at 25 than 40...of course.
However (and this is a key point you don't accept) men age GRACEFULLY were women hit a wall.
You are not even considering the hormone changes or child birth women deal with.
No way in hell a woman with 2 kids who is 40 looks just as good as she did with no kids at 25.
You don't see many 40 year old women dating 30 year old men do you?
You don't see many 40 year old women letting their hair go naturally colored do you?
Why do so many women aged >35 get botox, cosmetic surgery, etc? Because they hit a wall.
My brother is gay and 43. He's shredded and could pass for early 30s. Very difficult to find an example of a woman who is 43 and still attractive as her 25 year old self.
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Are you male or female? That's the big difference here. You sound like a female honestly by the OP so I can't tell.
As a man every decade has gotten better. I can honestly say that.
Just turned 40 and it's awesome if you are a man with your life together. I'm fit, have money and a career and look better than I ever did.
If you are woman it's the opposite experience - you are your best looking and have the most opportunities when you are in your 20s and it's all down here from there. Aging hits woman harder, faster and is more cruel. Lots of woman start to lose their mind from mid to late 30s because of this.
No age has hit me hard. 50 will be weird though because that sounds old.
This is so incorrect. When I look around the other parents at my kid's schools - its the dads who look like crap (fat, bald, etc) and the women are generally much better maintained.
At 50 I was still in similar fitness and strength and elasticity as my 40s (no illusion of being equal or near 30s!)
...By age 55 I was ridiculously further away from each as I was at 50. Now at 57, following my knee replacement, I'm kinda fit but weak a.f. and can't even get down or up from the floor without using all my limbs. Still "look" fit and lean but the skin is like paper mache and muscles are shrinking leaving bags of skin around my once muscular calves and quads.
I used to bench 285 even in my 40s but can barely press 135 without a spotter anymore. Can't heavy squat yet with my knee replacement and running anywhere under 20 for 5k is now a long memory. Cycling is still good but wrists and shoulders limit riding to under 3 hours and then my wrists are cooked for days.
Remarkably, ladies my own age are like deprived cougars and don't seem to care about sagging skin but theirs is a complete turnoff. Old lady smell is real.
Are you male or female? That's the big difference here. You sound like a female honestly by the OP so I can't tell.
As a man every decade has gotten better. I can honestly say that.
Just turned 40 and it's awesome if you are a man with your life together. I'm fit, have money and a career and look better than I ever did.
If you are woman it's the opposite experience - you are your best looking and have the most opportunities when you are in your 20s and it's all down here from there. Aging hits woman harder, faster and is more cruel. Lots of woman start to lose their mind from mid to late 30s because of this.
No age has hit me hard. 50 will be weird though because that sounds old.
This is so incorrect. When I look around the other parents at my kid's schools - its the dads who look like crap (fat, bald, etc) and the women are generally much better maintained.
I am not talking about people who don't workout, eat right, etc.
All things being equal a fit healthy 40 year old man will be better looking than a fit healthy 40 year old woman.
That's nature.
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This is so incorrect. When I look around the other parents at my kid's schools - its the dads who look like crap (fat, bald, etc) and the women are generally much better maintained.
I am not talking about people who don't workout, eat right, etc.
All things being equal a fit healthy 40 year old man will be better looking than a fit healthy 40 year old woman.
That's nature.
I think you are delusional.
Most ladies at 40 are still at their peak beauty, unless they've let themselves go or have overcooked themselves in the sun. Too many pregnancies or life stress aside, they look better than most guys at age 40. I'd say guys aren't quite yet at the silver fox ruggedness yet while ladies haven't hit menopause yet. The crossover is more between 45 and 50 then you are correct.
Ironically too much exercise especially at higher altitude or lower latitudes makes each wrinkly, looking older than their real age, regardless if fitness. Some Midwest and northern latitude folks who barely exercise but are still of healthy lean weight look much better than the sun kissed exercise fanatics in Colorado. Sun and exercise oxidized the skin prematurely and facial and skin on the arms & legs look pretty bad despite the musculature under the skin. Like smoker face...leathery.
I am 28, so I have no idea how 30 will feel but I am still Pring as of now. I know a guy that is 32 and is still killing it in his racing. For me its a weird feeling to know pretty much no matter what I do I only have a few years left to Pr in my event (the mile). I look at 30 year old Centro running a life time best in the mile in like 2021, and then 3 or 4 short years later he declined rapidly. Its unfortunate, but as many posters say my "problems" are worrying about not Pring anymore. I can only imagine the acutal problems that occur at 50 and 60. Its also weird to have now been out of college for longer then I was in it. When I was their I felt like it would never end, now I see how short 4-5 years actually is.
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