based on me and people i know who have reached this age.what else would you base it off ? im quite chilled myself but i was pretty wild younger and partyed hard. then i see friends relatives people i know online who didnt and most start buying fast cars bikes chasing younger women once they hit that magic 40.
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youngER! lol
I think it depends on what luck you have. If someone has the time and money and health to have an expensive mid life crisis they probably haven't had any significant amount of crisis to that point. Or if they did landed on their feet after.
I would say any midlife crisis moments I had were intense but passed by in a flash with no opportunity to act on them due to life events at that time.
Whereas I know other people who are basically retired at 50 and their pension is probably in the top 20%. They've ticked off most wish list things they ever had.
40 is nothing , there doesn't have to be any noticeable physical decline, i am 62 now, then again i am vegan and love a bottle of red 
mentally i have never been 100 percent and that's gone a little down hill, think i see the number 70 looming and think jeeze i need to get my **** together with my personal life
mentally i have never been 100 percent and that's gone a little down hill, think i see the number 70 looming and think jeeze i need to get my **** together with my personal life
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If you push yourself to the limit with aerobic exercise, you can actually do damage to your heart.
Jim Fixx who populised running in the 70s-80s, died of a heart attack when out for a morning run.
Yeah it can be down to luck and genetics. But in general with the miracles of modern science. You can hit 60 with very little health issues. One of the reasons why Governments are forever increasing the retirement age
When I go to my gym, I see women 50+ with bodies looking like Power Rangers
50 years ago, that wasn't the case.Yeah, don't be that person trying to bench press over 100KG in your 60's. You are asking for trouble.
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so all dem nurses fawning over you...All this talk of fast cars/bikes and younger women. At the age of 55 the closest I can come to an exciting midlife crisis is going into hospital tomorrow for my second full knee replacement surgery in 3 months
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When I go to my gym, I see women 50+ with bodies looking like Power Rangers
100% would watch this…
I don't think he was doing it to that extreme but yeah - we had a women at work who was a fitness freak running marathons, etc. and knackered her knees, back and heart in the longer run and I think she had a bit of trouble reconciling the notion of doing what she perceived as healthy things and resultant doing damage to herself.
It isn't. The older you get, the more you realise 40 is a great age! It is, however, the age where annoyances start to creep on up you and make themselves known. Aches and pains last just a wee bit longer, you may rely a wee bit more on reading glasses, you start your partying at 3 in the afternoon and finish by 10 at the very latest, stuff like that. But that's life. Make sure you're having fun and you'll not notice!
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Until you realise 90% of the time they are holding it all in with the special "hold" gym wear and they have that flappy overhang apron that looks like the guy from the last scene in robocop
oh I don't mean financially, that is all reletative and everyone is different, my view is always if you're doing better than you did last year then it's good enough. I try not to compare my self against others for example. I was talking more health wise.
Yeah it can be down to luck and genetics. But in general with the miracles of modern science. You can hit 60 with very little health issues. One of the reasons why Governments are forever increasing the retirement age
When I go to my gym, I see women 50+ with bodies looking like Power Rangers
Yeah, don't be that person trying to bench press over 100KG in your 60's. You are asking for trouble.
yeah modern medicine is great and if anything it has made 40, 50 and 60 a lot more "normal" compared to say 50-60 years ago.
I see people say that but even in my 30s I am genuinely slower than I Was in my 20s but then again my fitness has dropped due to busy life etc so makes me wonder how much it is just life taking over and how much it is age. Sure as heck it takes me longer to recover but for example strenght wise I am stronger now than I was in my 20s, cardio wise I have dropped but I went from doing 5-6k miles of cycling a year to nothing for 5 years and trying to get back into is a shock...
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What gyms are you guys going to? I am getting the complete opposite. It is mostly dudes in their late teens and 20's, all buff ... must be some trend that i have missed from a few years back, and there are usually the same 10 girls who are also in their 20's doing a lot of stretching...But this week a bunch of kids (group of 7), and I mean actually children, they must be all friends but one isn't even 5 ft tall turn up and not sure what the heck they are doing, they all try 1 piece of equipment for 10 seconds, get bored and move on to something else. Treadmill for 30s. This is at 10pm.
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You just need to change your lifestyle into an active one. Find a physical activity you enjoy.
Climbing did it for me, it’s such a great activity for older bodies. Low impact, doesn’t wear your joints out, lots of flexibility, lots of resistance training involved, all the things you need to do to keep yourself mobile and healthy as you get older. Even if you never set foot on real rock outdoors you can climb indoors forever, so many centers around now. Plus if you get into outdoor trad climbing you open up a whole world of mountaineering and adventure climbing which is some of the coolest stuff you can do in life imo! Doesn’t cost much once you buy the essential kit either.
TL;DR I smoked and drank my way through my 20s and 30s, now I’m middle aged and ripped. Climbing ftw.
You can absolutely reverse the damage, your body is amazing at recovering and healing.
You just need to change your lifestyle into an active one. Find a physical activity you enjoy.
Climbing did it for me, it’s such a great activity for older bodies. Low impact, doesn’t wear your joints out, lots of flexibility, lots of resistance training involved, all the things you need to do to keep yourself mobile and healthy as you get older. Even if you never set foot on real rock outdoors you can climb indoors forever, so many centers around now. Plus if you get into outdoor trad climbing you open up a whole world of mountaineering and adventure climbing which is some of the coolest stuff you can do in life imo! Doesn’t cost much once you buy the essential kit either.
TL;DR I smoked and drank my way through my 20s and 30s, now I’m middle aged and ripped. Climbing ftw.
Went to the gym some time ago, their website said you could quit whenever you wanted.
I quit after a few weeks and received debt collection claim, because.. they needed me to first tell them I wanted to stop paying, simply not showing up wasn't good enough.
I probably got some warning on sms, but I guess I misunderstood it, heh.
I quit after a few weeks and received debt collection claim, because.. they needed me to first tell them I wanted to stop paying, simply not showing up wasn't good enough.
I probably got some warning on sms, but I guess I misunderstood it, heh.
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Gym is grim, tried it many times in my life and every time it's the same, the routine of it becomes boring and they make it as difficult as possible to quit.
What works for me now knocking on 45's door is classes, one kettle bells, one hiit class, half hour each over my lunch break Tuesday and Thursday, different each time and doesn't get boring
On top of that I run when I can
My biggest problem though is vaping, I'm a slave to it and failed to quit many times now, any tips welcome from people that have gone through it. Appreciate the comments of chemicals etc from those that haven't, but its hard to take them on board
What works for me now knocking on 45's door is classes, one kettle bells, one hiit class, half hour each over my lunch break Tuesday and Thursday, different each time and doesn't get boring
On top of that I run when I can
My biggest problem though is vaping, I'm a slave to it and failed to quit many times now, any tips welcome from people that have gone through it. Appreciate the comments of chemicals etc from those that haven't, but its hard to take them on board
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