What age did you peak?

I will let you know when it happens.

The problem with determining when I peaked in attractiveness is that you can't mathematically compare different values of infinity.

Overall I would say at age 48.

It sure is going to be tough to beat this year. So far, this year is probably the peak of my life in terms of all those except mentality. It's been the least happy but most successful year of my life.

The happiness will come later. I hope.

theJeff wrote:

I will let you know when it happens.

hahahahaha - good one.

Right now!!!

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r67jur wrote:

Overall I would say at age 48.

For me it was 49.

I believe happiness should also be involved when determining when you peak though. You could be the most successful man on earth but if you are just an empty shell of a human being with no meaning or enjoyment in life, then does it even matter?

Athletically 43. By 47 I was over the hill.

dbags wrote:

theJeff wrote:

I will let you know when it happens.

hahahahaha - good one.

I am in my late 30s, but my weight is getting down to what it was in high school, and I am still PRing races from 5k to Half (started running later in life). We have been financially responsible and are starting to enjoy the fruits of delayed gratification. Watching the kids grow up, taking more and more ownership of my work life... I have no reason to think that I have "peaked" in any important measurable sense, besides the ability to stay up until 4am getting smashed, which hasn't interested me in a long time.

Not to get philosophical: sure, my answer was meant to be a little pithy, but I think a lot of folks agree with me in that they feel like their life is on a general trend of improvement - not without short term ups and downs, of course - and I wonder sometimes if it is actually true, or if "life just keeps getting better" is just something that people in the ___ age bracket tell themselves.

My addled brain can't remember when I peaked. Past the age of 25 or so (whatever, I just pulled that number out of my arse), you're in decline. Accept this harsh reality. Also, rage against the dying the of the light and sheit.

Peekachu wrote:Athletically, attractiveness, career, mentality, mentally... when did you achieve your “peak”.

What about others you know?

Athletically: 43 / 44 as a runner, late 30s in other sports

Weight / build: ~ 50, more or less

Attractiveness: can't really judge that one

Career: still working upward at nearly 54

Mentality: as above; I think I am continuing to gradually mature mentally and philosophically. When I was younger I figured out I knew everything, or at least knew more than everyone else I know. As I age, I appreciate more and more how little I really know, and how much others around me know that I don't know. Ironically, I find this comforting...

**Overall** I'd say on the whole, I started to get close to my peak around age 50, but I'm not sure I've yet passed it. My spouse is in a similar situation, which is great.

Many friends and relatives peaked a lot younger, but I know some people who kept rising, in many ways, into the late decades.

I'm around 80, and I'm still making gains. I don't feel I've peaked yet. Working towards that 2020 Olympics.

I would say all of those except career and maybe athletically, 22, 23 for me. Male, 38 now. Probably in better fitness presently than then, but was better then at the sport I did than I am now at any sport. Happiness-wise no question peaked then. Was happily dating the homecoming queen of my graduating high school class with full intention to marry her. Only period in my life when I would wake up each day having no idea how I got so lucky.

Did not marry her. Still unmarried. The last 10+ years have been pretty rough morale-wise in spite of my appearing outwardly to have a very exotic and exciting life. I live all over the earth and get paid to do some pretty ridiculous dream-job stuff with some of the most highly respected and visible people in the world. But some of us genuinely wanted nothing more than to live in the sh!tty little town where we went to high school, marry the homecoming queen, and call it a life. To have failed to achieve such a pitifully low-hanging goal is a shame that haunts me every day.

fingerblast wrote:

But some of us genuinely wanted nothing more than to live in the sh!tty little town where we went to high school, marry the homecoming queen, and call it a life. To have failed to achieve such a pitifully low-hanging goal is a shame that haunts me every day.

Not sure if you're trolling, but I can 100% relate to this.

A 90-year-old man goes to his doctor. "Doc, when I was 20, I couldn't bend my erection. When I was 40, I could put a little bend in it. Now I'm 90, and I can bend it in half! So tell me - when am I going to stop getting stronger??"

Athletically- 30-31....everything else right now. Shredded at 45, don’t have bad races these days because I am mentally more tough. If I raced like I do now, fifteen years ago, I would have been earning more money.

I peaked athletically at 19 no question. About the other measures it's harder to say. My career hasn't peaked yet (hopefully).

Peaked? Peaked, Peekachu?

Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. And when I do peak, you'll know.

Because I'm gonna peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia's gonna feel it.