how old were you when your body started showing the wear and tear of training?

[madbomber31]

training and sports have taken their toll... i ache a lot now.. my shoulders hurt so much i wake up in the middle of the night... my torn leg tendon was healing and i went bowling... BAD IDEA!!!! my arthritic ankle aches daily.... i'm 29!!! what happens when i'm 40 or 50????

 

[WODIN]

You really want an answer to that?

 

[madbomber31]

so how do you continue to train?

 

[Fast Twitch Fiber]

My body started going to hell at 25. I'm 29 now. I just train through the pain when possible and take time off to heal when it gets too bad. I'm coming back from a torn rotator cuff now.

 

[WODIN]

You either get to love the pain or you give it up.

I really like pain.

Other than that you learn to train smarter.
Alternate body parts and allow for maximum recovery times.
Vairy your work out routines a great deal (I do 4 week blocks), Take all those OTC supps that help with muscle and joint pain.
Learn techniques for keeping yourself even and calm.
Enlist the aide of meditation and herb.

The real big bitch isn't performance, its recovery time.

 

[PatsFan34]

My body started falling apart when I got out of high school. Playing football, hockey and baseball sure did a job on all my major joints. I find that if you do like a 10 minute warm-up of some light cardio, then go sit in the steam room or sauna, then do your workout, it helps alot. My athletic career was over before I started, all i got left is lifting!!!

 

[p0ink]

just curious here...how old are you wodin?

 

[SofaGeorge]

Guys, you have got to be doing something wrong. I'm 43 and I'm in great shape.

I studied dance for a while in college. The first thing they teach you in dance is how to dance for a lifetime (i.e., how to have a dance career that avoids slowly developing injuries.) It's a philosophy that thinks 30 years ahead.

I've lifted my entire life with the idea that I want to NOT cause little, unnoticable, slowly building injuries.

It doesn't have to happen.

If you guys are wrecked in your 20s... you are doing it wrong. Period.

 

[Fitnes1]

I don't really injure that easy any more. I've been training for over five years. I'm in better shape now than when I was in my 20s. (I'm in my 30s now.)

I'm w/ Wodin - "You either get to love the pain or you give it up."
That is so true!

If you treat your body like a temple & train it as such, you will reap the rewards many times over!

 

[cure]

meditation and herb.

herb as in :havoc: