Turning what age hits you the hardest?

60

Are you kidding me - your T levels are 720 ng/dL in your late 70s? 🤯 That's got to be off the chart for your age range?!?

720 would be at the high-range of standard level range that my HMO uses (Kaiser Permanente) for all ages: 241 ng/dL - 847 ng/dL.

My most recent test was 470 ng/dL back in 2023 - about half of what I had 35 yrs ago when I was a natural bodybuilding champion (IIRC around high 800s). My 24 yr old son who played college football & is an avid lifter had his levels checked recently & is at 823 ng/dL.

If you really don't use TRT or DHEA, or anything like that, you're an outlier beyond anything I've ever seen. Most of the guys I know at my gym on TRT, are considerably younger than you, are boosting up to your natural levels.

That's only because women generally put 20x more effort into looksmaxxing (makeup, skin care, clothes, etc). I believe Pontoise is correct that men look better at age 40 *if* looksmaxxing, which is the important qualifier.

I'll wish you happy birthday (and Merry Christmas)

When I was younger I did a lot of endurance work. But when I turned 35 I went to a strictly sprint and weight workout. When I was young I could do a 10 yard sprint in only 1.83 seconds. now at age 38 I’m a ripped 220 pounds and can do a .84 standing start 10 yard dash!!!

I hit 70 in the middle of rehabbing my 3 rd spinal fusion.

When I came back I found everything had basically halved. Power, fitness, endurance etc. And working to get back was twice as hard.

I go to the dr to check out if I have everything aligned and now have a scheduled MRI this week to determine if I have a thorough form of prostate cancer, or a treatable one.

And I have lots of time to hang around and think about it.

Ages or numbers don't hit me hard at all.

What's hard is that life (for me) feels like the craziest video game on Super Hard Mode.

Each year, it gets more and more challenging; the more I beat each level/age, the harder the next level seems to get. Every year, I gain more skills and I get tougher/more resilient: but it never seems to get any easier.

The other day I thought: if it was anyone else walking in my shoes, they'd probably be dead by now. But by some huge miracle I'm still alive. The fact that I'm still alive is a huge success.

At both 5 year milestones since 25 I mentally internalised that I was 5 years older than I actually was at that time. It required a little mental pain when setting new ages for myself, but whenever I'm reminded of my real age I realise I'm not that old after all. And I only have to deal with feeling older once every 5 years

It's like setting the alarm clock 2 hours in advance, so that when you realise you've got 2 extra hours than you initially thought you go back to sleep all content and happy 😊

Whatever gets you through life

In my case 6, 1st Grade, I had to walk to school and got beatup every day.

Mid 50s and hasn't happened yet. Life is good. None of us are getting any younger and all we have is today.

Bro you need to get a woman or something. 25 is unc status????? GTFOH with your dumb posts. LMFAO!!!

Around 30, I started to find training for the 800m too intense.

Ran my best 3000m s/c at 35.

Was in good shape turning 40 and started with injury problems which I didn't really overcome until 46 and came back on got third in US Masters 3000m s/c.

Early 50s got some coaching for the first time in a long time, and actually improved from 50-56 and placed in three more US Masters' Champs...

Injured at around 57-58 and had knee surgery (#3), came back and ran 11;32 for 2 miles at 60. Was aiming for World Senior Games and peroneal tendon went a few weeks out.

Took quite a while to get back, but returned to good form at 65 and back on World Rankings for age group. Injured the following year, and now 67 and coming back again.

So, nearly 40 years of highs and lows, but never really out of shape (at most 10 lbs over racing weight, and now back down to same racing weight and same jeans size as always).

Putting that in perspective, the injuries have been frustrating, but getting through them back to good form has been each time has worth it (to me). Overall, running has generally been beneficial health wise (keeping weight done and avoiding meds), and while I'm slower in my running times, in terms of being active, I don't really notice in terms of general activity that I'm old.

I'm fortunate that I'm still engage in my career, and I would say I'm better at what I do than I was 10 years ago, and I get up every morning looking forward to work, which probably helps - I wouldn't do well with retirement.

Overall, even taking the injuries into account, I've been very blessed, and while I'd rather have the fitness I had at 28, and in a lot of ways I feel very much the same way as I did 40 years ago, engaged in my work and focused on the next running goal.

The 'solution' to your 'problem' is the same as all the other solutions for similar problems i.e. problems that you can't do $hit about - stop thinking about it.

I'd say around 30 when I broke up with my long time girlfriend, during the first covid pandemic.

I also started having white hair here and there. I meet fewer and fewer new people and feel too old to date girls who just finished their studies (around 23-24 yo).

Overall, I fthink I work too much while time is going faster and the passing of seasons has lost some of its flavour.

Yeah if you’re a woman it’s downhill after 22/23. My x girlfriend got ugly around then compared to 18-20 and I started cheated and eventually dumped her because she wouldn’t get plastic surgery or skinnier.

for men- you’re honestly good until like 50 man, men get better with age, have more fun, and can keep dating young woman.

for women it’s downhill really faster after university. I’m 30 and I’m having a blast but all the 30 yr old woman I know who are single are lost and waton. It’s really sad for women

Woman are old and used at 25. Leo is way ahead of his time. Seriously woman get ugly af after college- I cant stand it.

I'm almost 50 now, but I had a totally different attitude to being in my 20s vs. being 30+ than most of the young folks posting in this thread. When I was in my 20s, I figured nobody would take me seriously yet, so I may as well accumulate experiences and enjoy myself without taking myself too seriously either. And I was right about that. Real life, as it appears now from hindsight, does not begin until around 30. You're still a kid before that but just don't realize it after you go to college. Even in your early 30s you're still just beginning to mature into real life.

To address the question of this thread, I too was hit a bit hard by the number 40, and the approach of 50 is bothering me now. But that's just because these are round numbers and we associate dumb ideas with them. We'd all think differently about this if we didn't use base 10. I think when you notice a steeper drop-off in running ability, specifically, probably depends more on when you started running than on your age, as well as on other details about your life besides age. For reliable information about purely age related drop off points, I'd consult the scientific studies that indicate mid-40s and around 60 as key turning points, at least as a generalization. And most of all I'd listen to what people have to say who have the proper perspective from even later in life, from later 60s into their 70s and 80s, to disentangle real physical decline from shallow ideas about round numbers. How you feel at the time about reaching a certain age may just reflect dumb ideas that you'd be better off letting go of.

I'd refine this a bit to better answer the question.

I was 52-53 when COVID hit and I do feel that was a kind of a 'ok you are old now' moment. I was suddenly in the 'this could kill you' category vs the 'eh don't worry' category. And it forced me to realize that time is not infinite and being locked down for a year was a meaningful amount of my remaining life. So I ought to go out and get more stuff.

Yes but its a big number!