It’s probably related to doing literally nothing.
Well now I feel personally attacked
And or being overweight. Took me awhile to figure out why people started talking about pains starting in their 30s.
Yup, I’ve started working out specifically so getting older sucks less.
It’s truer than most realize.
Decided to start lifting at age 47 because I was depressed with work, expecting to be laid off, and needed something positive in my life. A few months in I realize my back no longer hurts while sleeping. I’m not waking up in the morning aching. Here I thought I was hurting just because I was getting old when the reality was I was hurting because I was weak. I was dealing with back pain for several years unnecessarily.
I can do nothing and suffer, or I can suffer a little under the bar and feel great. Either way I suffer but the latter suffering is so much better.
I’m convinced that a rather large portion of lower back pain is from atrophied hamstrings.
Pain science is real weird.
This is a bit reductive, but one of the theories of pain is that it’s entirely neurological, essentially meaning that pain doesn’t actually correlate to physical harm to the body meaningfully. The other thing this means is that we tend to build these neural pathways the more we pay attention and hyper focus on any given body part. Compounding on this: the less outside stimulus, the more likely it is that we will have the ability to focus on the minutia of our internal processes in the first place.
Again, this is somewhat reductive as a measure of explaining pain, but it is probably partially correct.
Except it does correlate meaningfully, don’t believe me? Break your index finger, does it hurt? No shit.
That’s not to say the nervous system can’t create pain that has no source, the entire condition of fibromyalgia is evidence of that possibility, but to say they aren’t meaningfully correlated is insane.
Most people who have pain unrelated to medical diagnosis in their 30’s and 40’s are fat as hell, eat like crap, and get no exercise, and are constantly dehydrated. That’s why they hurt so damn much.
I wonder if complete sedentary lifestyles correlate with inflammation, stress on joints, and overall negative health outcomes?
Hmmm… If only there were studies on such a thing.
Fibromyalgia sufferers here be like:
First time?
This is a character inside everyone and it’s like a level boss … the more years pass, the bigger the pain level boss … you can easily beat the early bosses but eventually they get harder and harder to fight until eventually the pain boss kills you.
Is this a thing even for people who get regular exercise?
Yes, everybody grows old.
Ah yes, fibromyalgia
Yeah, as someone who has it, it’s so fun
Same. Best thing that ever happened to me.
Wait,
no,
not that
I did some deadlifts over the weekend. My body won’t let me forget what I did every time I do anything.
Look I don’t get your point? Every day is leg day
That image is racist
How? Unless you are joking.
