After spending three weeks coughing my guts up with a lung infection and feeling better, I had a go at continuing to sort out my garage at the
week-end. Two days of lifting lumps of car . . . no problem.
Today however, first my washing machine decides to suicide this morning.
How did it know I had saved up a few quid for bits?
Then all I did was start to make my bed, flipped the duvet over and got a stabbing pain in the back that made my legs give way. Seem to have twisted
and trapped a nerve. Now can't do Jack Sh1t!
Am I not the luckiest of men?
Screwed my shoulder up about 3 weeks ago going Zorbing with a friend.
I think Im joining your club, its called the old mans club. . . .
I remember the days when I bounced and never broke, Im only 30.
I hope your back gets better soon, You only have one so try and look after it.
Bad times mate
I had to climb a staircase one step at a time the other day as my right knee couldnt manage a step - im only 32!
Hope you feel better soon. 
quote:
Originally posted by bi22le
Screwed my shoulder up about 3 weeks ago going Zorbing with a friend.
I think Im joining your club, its called the old mans club. . . .
I remember the days when I bounced and never broke, Im only 30.
I hope your back gets better soon, You only have one so try and look after it.
Don't know what you lot are whinging about, wait till you get to my age(60) If I had realised I would last this long I would have taken better care of myself! Have had a shoulder problem for 13 months now
I'm currently waiting for an MRI scan on my left knee, which has been bad for years, but has been extremely painful for the last couple of months
- the right's on the way out as well. I'm just getting over a urine infection (unusual for men) that badly affected my holiday last week.
I'm due at the hospital for a sleep apnoea test on Wednesday. Last week I was diagnosed as diabetic! At 46, things are going downhill rapidly
quote:
Originally posted by rusty nuts
Don't know what you lot are whinging about, wait till you get to my age(60) If I had realised I would last this long I would have taken better care of myself! Have had a shoulder problem for 13 months now
This post needs a bit of balance so
50 next year, started going to the gym 6 months ago and feel fitter and stronger than when I was 30
Bench press is no where near what I could do at 25 but can still do just over 200lb a couple of times and weigh just under 13 stone so not a big
bloke.
My advise, get a good osteopath to straighten you up and get in the gym and start to swim, my sedentary life has not done me any favours over the last
25 years.
quote:
Originally posted by mark chandler
This post needs a bit of balance so
50 next year, started going to the gym 6 months ago and feel fitter and stronger than when I was 30
Bench press is no where near what I could do at 25 but can still do just over 200lb a couple of times and weigh just under 13 stone so not a big bloke.
My advise, get a good osteopath to straighten you up and get in the gym and start to swim, my sedentary life has not done me any favours over the last 25 years.
I'm in my mid 20s and already have knackered knees. My mum and her mum had a similar problem where we have knock knees and our shins are a bit curved, which has made my feet twist outwards as I've grown. Now if I kneel down for more than a couple of minutes I have to be careful standing up and people have actually commented on the creaking they can hear. It's especially bad when I've been kneeling on something cold like the frozen concrete floor in the garage.
quote:
Originally posted by mark chandler
This post needs a bit of balance so
50 next year, started going to the gym 6 months ago and feel fitter and stronger than when I was 30
Bench press is no where near what I could do at 25 but can still do just over 200lb a couple of times and weigh just under 13 stone so not a big bloke.
My advise, get a good osteopath to straighten you up and get in the gym and start to swim, my sedentary life has not done me any favours over the last 25 years.
To quote my now deceased Aunty Phyllis
"Getting old is bloody awful"
She died in her 90's of emphasimia following a life time of smoking, she was a tough old bird.
My trigger to stop smoking, when in mid twenties following a brief run I coughed up some blood 
My trigger to get fit, when realisation set in that if I did not do something my fitness would preclude me from doing the stuff I enjoy.
Good health to all, she was 100% correct
I'm 30 now and definatly don't bounce back the same way
especially after a heavy night out, used to feel fine in less than 12 hours, now it can take 4 days
quote:
Originally posted by Furyous
I'm in my mid 20s and already have knackered knees. My mum and her mum had a similar problem where we have knock knees and our shins are a bit curved, which has made my feet twist outwards as I've grown. Now if I kneel down for more than a couple of minutes I have to be careful standing up and people have actually commented on the creaking they can hear. It's especially bad when I've been kneeling on something cold like the frozen concrete floor in the garage.
) which has ment some muscles arn't as developed as they
should be, while others are quite strong - so the end result is my kneecaps have rotated to about 45° and move around more than they should
(subluxing aparently...) so a few hours of walking or a a few min running and my knee swells up to twice the size and takes ~2 weeks to go back down
I went to the doctors' surgery a few weeks ago for one of those NHS health checks they offer when you get to 60.
The nurse went through the usual list:
Blood pressure - middle of the 'normal' range.
Cholesterol - in the normal range.
Did a few other checks, all came out 'normal/good' apart from the fact that I should lose a couple of stone.
I'd feel quite smug, if it wasn't for the fact that I'm currently in the middle of a bout of the common cold, and feeling very sorry
for myself...
<sniff, sniff, cough, cough>