I'll be 33 soon. I feel old. I haven't aged well. Going bald really sucks. And hair growing in places that gross people out. Plus, I try to play sports once in a while and I always seem to hurt something. I've also packed on an extra 20 pounds. NOT GOOD!
I'm in a midlife crisis!
I'm in a midlife crisis!
I'm 21 so I have no room to comment yet
but
if you want to age well...stay active. That is the single most important thing: physical activity. If you can stay active, you can really stop the natural deterioration of our body that hits us after 30. It doesn't have to be even heavy activity - just get some good exercise 3 times a week. You'll slow (you can't stop it, but you can slow it VERY well) the decrease in bone density that occurs, you'll decrease the loss of muscle that you get (we cannot make any more muscle cells...lifting weights simply makes each cell bigger. So when a muscle cell dies - its gone for good. Although there ARE certain instances where you can get muscle cells to split and actually incrase your overall number but that is a very rare case). It will also keep the weight off. Doing that will keep you looking like you are in your 20s instead of making you look like you are in your 40s. And it isn't something physical - but it is something you feel.
The point is you need to start NOW. For some reason, our body is very slow at building things, but we lose it rapidly. For example - We can NATURALLY build bone density at a rate of ~2.5% a year. But if you get bed ridden - we will easily lose it at a rate of 10% a month, so its really imperative that if you are sedentary, that you start to exercise NOW before you lose even more. For those who lift weights - its obvious building muscle is a VERY slow process...but on the same note you easily watch your pecs recede if you don't constantly lift weight (part of it is that it ultimately requires more energy to maintain muscle - and if we stop giving inputs that necessitate the higher level of energy, then our bodies will naturally move to a lower energy state and thus lose muscle...and exercise and physical activity is that stimulus and come come in many forms such as mechanical stimulus through stress)
Exercise can simply be going out and walking, playing a sport like tennis, running (if you REALLLY are out of shape, probably better to start walking first), swimming...the options are endless.
So if you feel you aren't aging well (Aztech!) get out and start doing even simple stuff like walking...you'll thank yourself 5 years later for slowing down your body...
but
if you want to age well...stay active. That is the single most important thing: physical activity. If you can stay active, you can really stop the natural deterioration of our body that hits us after 30. It doesn't have to be even heavy activity - just get some good exercise 3 times a week. You'll slow (you can't stop it, but you can slow it VERY well) the decrease in bone density that occurs, you'll decrease the loss of muscle that you get (we cannot make any more muscle cells...lifting weights simply makes each cell bigger. So when a muscle cell dies - its gone for good. Although there ARE certain instances where you can get muscle cells to split and actually incrase your overall number but that is a very rare case). It will also keep the weight off. Doing that will keep you looking like you are in your 20s instead of making you look like you are in your 40s. And it isn't something physical - but it is something you feel.
The point is you need to start NOW. For some reason, our body is very slow at building things, but we lose it rapidly. For example - We can NATURALLY build bone density at a rate of ~2.5% a year. But if you get bed ridden - we will easily lose it at a rate of 10% a month, so its really imperative that if you are sedentary, that you start to exercise NOW before you lose even more. For those who lift weights - its obvious building muscle is a VERY slow process...but on the same note you easily watch your pecs recede if you don't constantly lift weight (part of it is that it ultimately requires more energy to maintain muscle - and if we stop giving inputs that necessitate the higher level of energy, then our bodies will naturally move to a lower energy state and thus lose muscle...and exercise and physical activity is that stimulus and come come in many forms such as mechanical stimulus through stress)
Exercise can simply be going out and walking, playing a sport like tennis, running (if you REALLLY are out of shape, probably better to start walking first), swimming...the options are endless.
So if you feel you aren't aging well (Aztech!) get out and start doing even simple stuff like walking...you'll thank yourself 5 years later for slowing down your body...
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If you want to age well, stay away from hard labor, I have an uncle who's not even in his 50s who gets a senior discount.
I had the opposite problem, when I was 25, I still got carded to get into a casino, and still get carded for alcohol today, and I'm 29.
I had the opposite problem, when I was 25, I still got carded to get into a casino, and still get carded for alcohol today, and I'm 29.
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