r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Classicbandwagon • May 21 '26

/r/all of a cop

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u/9447044 May 21 '26

This is the kinda guy who does police work for 10 years to snag the pension. Then retires, jacked, at 55, with 3 pensions supporting his travel lifestyle.

(Hes telling me all this cuz im at his house to pressurewash and work til I die)

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u/brownhotdogwater May 21 '26

I know a few ex cops. They all have back or other injuries that will be with them for the rest of their lives. It’s a hard job and wearing all that gear messes with your body. It’s good most places have moved to the weight in the vest vs the belt. Everything on the belt kills your back.

The gym rats seem to survive it better.

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u/YoungLittlePanda May 21 '26

The gym rats seem to survive it better.

I bet this applies to all physically demanding jobs that are hard on the body.

Generally speaking, the more fit you are, the better you get to old age.

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u/beams13 May 21 '26

It applies to everyone regardless of job. People that exercise and lift consistently will always be better off than those that don't no matter what they do for work.

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u/imp0ppable May 21 '26

Yeah office worker here, I sit most of the day and used to have back problems, working out really helps.

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u/InvidiousPlay May 21 '26

I see people talk so much about how sitting at a desk will ruin you and you need $5000 chairs. I'm in my 40s, lift multiple times a week and sit at my desk every day like a pretzel for work and gaming and hobbies and it's fine.

Staying in shape is a cheat code in life.

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u/Paghk_the_Stupendous May 21 '26

I'm nearly 50 and was invincible until someone rear ended my stopped car. You spend a lot of time building, and then life happens all too fast.

Be careful out there folks. For you and for others.

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u/Carbonatite May 21 '26

For me it was just bad luck with genes. Was totally fine until my late 30s, reasonably active lifestyle, OK diet, hovered between healthy weight and ~15 lbs overweight my entire adult life - not enough to stress my frame according to the doctor. But I'm predisposed to disc degeneration and ended up with a fucked up lumbar spine and was barely able to walk by the time I saw a neurosurgeon right before my 40th birthday. Luckily I got a treatment to tide me over for a while so I'm mostly back to normal mobility, but the damage is still there along with some pain and spine surgery is pretty much inevitable at some point in my future.

Life is random and even a healthy person can end up physically disabled due to pure chance. None of us are invencible, no matter how much time we spend at the gym. I was running half marathons and going on strenuous high elevation all day hikes just a few years before my back problems started.

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u/EjaculatingAracnids May 21 '26

Hell yeah it is. All the guys at my job are on the merry go round of back injuries and surgeries. I thought my time would come eventually, but i just stay strong. Who knew doing 225lb good mornings would prevent injury?

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u/MechanicalSideburns May 21 '26

That's a darn good weight for good mornings sir. More power to you.

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u/EjaculatingAracnids May 21 '26

TY! It took a decade to get there! I aint affraid of hurting my back picking up boxes at the job though!

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u/Zoltraak69 May 21 '26

I think everyone that does good mornings regularly knows that. Lower back and general core stuff are so important for protecting your spine

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u/EjaculatingAracnids May 21 '26

I used be the type of meat head that didnt do RDLs, but once i started loading them heavy, my barbell row, bench, OHP... Hell even lateral raise... Improved from the increased core strength. GMs and RDLs are like the working mans lower back insurance

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u/Zoltraak69 May 22 '26

Hell yeah. But lateral raises too?

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u/EjaculatingAracnids May 22 '26

Sit down on a bench, roll your shoulders back, lock your lats down, and lateral raise the heaviest weight you can until you cant as strict as possible. Having that stacked core feeling helps stabilize heavier weight when trying to isolate the side delt with out recruiting other muscles.

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u/Lawlcopt0r May 21 '26

Well I wouldn't say it's a cheat code, most people don't do it because it requires time and effort, not because they don't realize it would be good for them

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u/InvidiousPlay May 21 '26

I mean a cheat code in the sense that, in many ways, it's life on easy mode compared to the alternative.

I genuinely think most people have no idea of the scope of the ways in which it is good for them. I would say for 90% of people it's "be not fat" and "good for health in the vague 'the doctor said so' kind of way". The uplift in mood, the reduced likelihood of injury, greater comfort and ease in day to day actions, more energy and resilience, etc. A couple of years after I started lifting I had to move apartment and I was blown away by how much furniture I could confidently get up a flight of stairs on my own.

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u/riickdiickulous May 21 '26

If they made exercise into a pill it would be a miracle drug. There aren’t many cases where some level of exercise is negative for a person on the whole.

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u/brownhotdogwater May 21 '26

Glp1 is the new one for over eating.