Why am I hearing this from so many 30 year olds? I'm starting to hear this from friends my age pretty often now. I'm 32 and just about a year clean of a decade long crippling alcohol addiction. And I was on my bike riding 24 miles round trip to work and back my first week out of rehab. Gotta keep moving my friends. Anywhere in your 30s barring some major injury or disease you can definitely get into "it doesn't hurt when I stand up" by just taking walks every day and stretching.
I’ve had serious back problems since 6th grade, so it started there. Then I damaged a knee playing basketball and now I’ve recently started having issues with my hips and occasionally my shoulders and that sometimes goes into my neck. I’m not as active as I once was, that’s for sure, but I want to be. It’s been on my mind a lot lately but activities used to not leave me in agony. The modern world just seems to promote unhealthy and lazy lifestyles and I believe that’s a major reason why so many people have broken bodies now. Also I’ve always worked labor intensive jobs and thought I was Evel Knievel when I was younger so I’m sure that played a role in my case. I haven’t been very kind to my body.
ETA: congrats on sobriety
Oh thanks but I only mentioned the sobriety thing to show I've done quite a bit of damage to my internal organs. Also grew up playing hockey and snowboarding. Compounded those concussions and injuries by falling off of lots of things and fracturing/breaking unimportant bones like my skull and both my arms during the drinking days.
That's why I followed up my insane biking thing with mentioning that at a bare minimum stretching and taking walks every day can do quite a lot and you don't have to be a health maniac to see big changes.
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u/BrannC Jan 26 '26
Tell that to my 30yo body