66 years ,wear glasses for driving and optivisor for the last 6 years,I only take a Statin,blood pressure is OK.I have no joint or back problems and keep my cardio good by riding the stationary bike 3-4 times a week.I have to say that I feel like I did when when I was young,im not playing basketball or football anymore,but im in better shape then most of my similar aged friends.
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Itāsā¦ heartwarming(?)ā¦ LOL! ā¦to hear that Iām not alone in my decrepitude!!!
Now that Iām almost finished with my morning coffee, itās just about time to take my napā¦ LOL!
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61.5 years old, have been wearing glasses (far sighted) for 10 years. For modeling, I have cheaters from +2 to +6 that work fantastically, I just quickly change out when I need more magnification. They work great. No optivisor for me - too restricting and claustrophobic. In excellent health except for diabetes and a blown-out back. Can still do an 8 hour session at the bench. Iām in excellent shape - still wear size 32 jeans. What pisses me off is time. Every year seems to go twice as fast as the last one. The fact that Iāve got 600 kits in the stash and Iāll never get to all of them causes me great anxiety. Thinning it out is beyond thought, theyāre mine and nobody else can have them. But Iāve already briefed my son on what goes for how much when Iām gone, and where to sell it. I hope Iāve got another 40 years left, my family is known for hitting 100, but I look to the future with trepidation as to waning skills. It does suck getting old.
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Man, u guys are making me nervous Iām only 41 but my military time hit me a little harder than most (I think) and I have a lot of these problems already, so the future looks pretty pain filled from where Iām standing.
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As we used to say (before I passed that age some time ago) āafter 65 itās Snipersā Alleyā.
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for all the oldies here ( Warning Adult Language In Use) but please take the time to watch and learn something new.
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Just use some common sense (Easy for me to say now after having done the wrong thing for so many years) and youāll be fine, My best years came after 40. My first combat deployment, in SF no less - at 40. My second one at 45, when most dudes have long since retired.
I had huge arms and chest compared to my friends even in the 8th grade, (due to the fried egg, maoynnaise and white bread sandwich diet, but thatās another story) but I was never really a gym rat. Sure, we did the circuit training during football season. After becoming SF at 20 I dabbled once in a while to keep what I had.
But after the first deployment I did nothing for an entire year, except get to know my daughter who was born nine days before I left. Looking back, I think I probably sufferd from depression a bit - not dissimilar to the end the Hurt Locker - you realise youāre just another dude after being invincible for a year.
So I did not start hitting the Gym until age 42. Six months later I had to have help getting my BDU top off.
Joined the 1000 pound club in my 40ās. Iām donāt remember when I hit 19 inch arms, but it was well into my 40ās. I lost them during COVID. It wasnāt worth it to me to get sick in the gym from some dude doing that weird breathing sh!t before benching. All I did was train for the new Army ACFT, with 40 pound weights. Was able do outdo most members in my unit even at age 59, three times the age of some of them.
Started hitting the gym again almost exactly a year ago, arms back up to 18 1/4 inches when an MRI discovered the torn bicep and horribly torn rotator cuffs. So after seven months, had to quit lifting. After I recover from these surgeries I fully expect to get back into arm wrestling shape. Iāll be beasting again in no time.
The point of all of this is - 40 is when you start life over. To be in shape in your sixties, you start then, not when youāre 59. Youāll be fine - just remember my motto when people say I donāt look my age: It must be all that clean livinā and dirty sex.
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71 last July . Been wearing glasses most of my life . Genetics , occupation and shooting have trashed my hearing . Always wore ear protection for target shooting but never bird hunting and not often enough at work . Tried hearing aids and hated them . I have been using Optivisor for years .
I was a runner for about 12 years till my knee started giving me trouble - switched to rowing machine but have slacked off on that . Still surfing but my water temp threshold is 60 degrees now with full 3/2 suit and boots and to be honest here my mojo is waning . Modeling mojo at a low right now . Still ride and love my motorcycles and currently restoring Norton number 3 .
Big negative for me is that I have been battling Trigeminal Neuralgia for several years now . I had Radio Ablation in September which was helpful but the neuralgia is creeping back .
The medicine profession now suspects a link to the early Pfizer CoVid vaccine which I had - sucks but thatās life and I have been very healthy for most of mine . Trying hard to not let the old man inā¦
Cheers- RT
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I agree with you and Iām happy to hear that you are figuring it out. I try to get in the gym as much as possible and have started pursuing the pains I have to see if they can be fixed or mitigated a little. The mental health stuff is day to day, some better than others.
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Pain purifies. Youāll have to party with the MC some time. Youāll see, as messed up as some of these guys are, and given the amount of hardware theyāre carrying (inside their bodies, not on their hip) you still wouldnāt want to fool with most of them. Even the Vietnam vet, who all of about 5ā3".
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I donāt mess with anybody who made the voluntary choice to go into the SOF world. I know I never would have made it and have mad respect for the guys who I knew were out there keeping me safe so I could do my job.
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OK. Fine. Iāll playā¦ 65. Need glasses for reading and driving. A little arthritis in me foot. Aches and pains from a nasty mishap a few years ago; but they only make an appearance at the most inconvienent times. Mental state: officially bonkers, and happy that way.
Iām reminded of something my father-in-law once said: āYou canāt put an old head on young shoulders.ā If I only knew then what I know nowā¦ I probably would of had less fun.
This thread should be held over glasses of scotchā¦
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Sometimes muscles of ones own is not needed ā¦
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Bullshit from your Dr.! I no longer have a skeleton, just a mass of more or less articulated arthritis. There are treatments for arthritis, trigger finger (locking up), and pain. You need to find a better doc. Iām early 70s. Iāve had multiple successful treatments for trigger finger. As for pain, unless your kidneys are too challenged, NSAIDs are effective, as are topical treatments like Voltarenā¢Gel and Salonpasā¢. Ice packs are your friends. Iām building more now than I did when I was young and not arthritic, with minimum pain and frustration.
Bottom line: You need to find a better doctor.
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I hear 420 can cure quite a few ills.
For anyone interested, I find the very best exercise you can do is the deadlift. Itās nearly a whole body workout, and because yourāe working some of your largest muscle groups, it promotes testosterone production, leading to better lean muscle mass.
And - a leading cause of death in the US is pneumonia - from falling down and breaking a hip, only to die in a hospital bed choking on your own phlegm. Iām not going out that way. Still doing sets of 355 before the surgery. Donāt know what my max was as I didnāt want my arm to completely come out of the socket.
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Yeah. That wouldāve been awkward at the gym, then to the ER. But hey! 355lbs at your age is impressive.
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Iāll join the club, 55 and blind, broken and mentally unstable.
When I was a in my early 20ās optometrist said I would never have to wear glasses. I had better than 20/20 vision well into my mid 30ās, then 39 hit! All of a sudden print was fuzzy. Got readers, then at 43 I needed distance glasses full time. I need lots of magnification to build.
While playing hockey I caught an edge and went head first into the boards. Hurt my neck a upper back but nothing serious. I actually didnāt miss a shift lol. 6-7 years later I was in 2 MVAāa, one head on collision, the other a rear ended. The head on didnāt bother me, it was when I was rear ended and Iāve been living with chronic back and neck pain since 2016. Only recently (new chiro) have I experienced periods of no pain. Bench time is limited to 3hrs.
Edit forgot to add. Had rotator cuff surgery too. I also had a partial dislocation for 11 years until surgery. Of course hockey related lol.
I done 5 tours of duty in Afghanistan, I came home with a brand new plan, I take the PTSD from Talibanā¦ā¦ Bet youāre all singing Copperhead Road nowā¦. I also have wicked tinnitus, hearing loss and sleep apnea. But hey my hips and knees are good lol! Reality, I have done tons and tons of therapy for my PTSD and I continue to do so. Better than staring down a barrel of a 44.
I used to run 10km a day and play on three different hockey teams. I was fit as a fiddle until my MVA. Now I canāt walk 2km. I hope that changes this year because I need to shed some weight.
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Guess Iām pretty lucky. While my āailmentsā related to modeling are a concern, otherwise I am in good shape. Like most my age(68) I take a statin. No other prescription meds. Playing competitive racketball for 40 years has taken a toll on the shoulder but working out 3x a week keeps it from becoming too much of a problem. Iām able to play 2-3x a week against guys much younger and not embarrass myself. Iām told Iām in great shape for my age. Have a small tire around the belly but few men of my age donāt.
Anyway thereās no way getting around aging unless youāre dead.
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Stupid response. You dont know my full medical situation nor the lists of specialists i go to. Im restricted with my medications and that eliminates NSAIDs.
I suggest you limit your comments to subjects that you know. Life for me at times is crap and I dont need a know all giving opinionated opinions.
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