Being a father of a 6 year old who has already had a minor concussion and a bruised nose, l kinda feel this one. Little kids do seem to roll with the punches better than adults, especially if you respond less dramatically. I assume a lot of that is due to being shorter and lighter weight though, leading to less forces overall, basically the square/cube law in reverse,
However, i do find a lot of folks who complain about how fragile they are do 0 cardio or weight training in order to strengthen themselves. My single most common recommendation is to do some kinda training for both, even if it’s just once a week. I’d say it’s probably the best investment you can make up to a certain upper limit time wise.
I’m sure there are some folks with old nagging sports injuries that bother them, for me that’s my knees from 400+ pound squats, but in general I’d say I’m extremely resistant to day to day problems that affect most people besides minor to moderate muscle soreness/fatigue which mostly comes from the training itself. The only exception for me being my neck, especially from “sleeping wrong”, which makes me think I should actually do some of the exercises that actually train your neck…
Again, I’m not knocking individual folks for their specific issues, but I feel like a lot of “normal” folks’ problem is that they’re just weak from years of being sedentary and a good general fix for that is just a bit of strength and cardio training.
To me that’s a good thing because that means for most folks there is a fairly simple albeit not necessarily “easy” solution. I find problems I have the ability to directly fix are best.
I agree, a lot of these “injuries” are just neglect of your body and bad posture that build up a debt in your body over time.
I used to be really fit until I get a desk job. I recenly bought some kettle bells to get back into shape.
Man I opened a window in September 24 that unexpectedly was a bit harder to open. When turning my hand, a pain went though my wrist. Since then my wrist is fucked up, it hurts a lot. I have been to the doctor, doing physiotherapy, wearing an orthosis etc.
I opened a window and destroyed my wrist, it sucks to be old.
I have a toddler, and when he cuts himself or skins his knee, I’m pretty sure I can see the healing happening when you look close.
It really is true that our response to pain is in part a learned response. If your parents overreacted to your minor injuries, you’ll learn that’s how you’re supposed to respond to minor injuries.
Uhhhhh does that explain why I can shrug off pain that puts other people in the hospital? Was it the fucking abuse?!
it’s always the abuse.
my wife was neglected as a child and always told to “walk it off”.
our first child, she didn’t have any pain mitigation. the nurses were horrified but morbidly curious.
when she says it hurts I believe it would incapacitate a normal person.
personally, I have worked on mind-over-matter pain mitigation (I fell asleep during a root canal) but hers takes it to a whole new level.
fell asleep during a root canal
Fell asleep? Or passed out?
Ever seen 127 Hours? When he cuts through the nerves? That’s what it felt like for me 1 out of 4 times. I don’t think it’s a pain response tbh. More like a similar effect to cutting on a video cord slowly and the signal getting distorted.
nope. I was awake. listening to the music they were playing and eventually just went to sleep. my eyes were already closed since the lights were so bright.
dentist actually woke me up and thought I passed out. said it was the first time he’s ever seen that happen.
had a good chuckle out of it and finished up.
in my mind I was on a beach with the radio playing at the bar/cabana. sun in my face, etc. it’s amazing how easily you can trick your mind into believing you’re somewhere else.
It’s not necessarily abuse to not react strongly to your child having a minor injury, but that could be a reason why. It could also be you learned to mask your pain to avoid further abuse.
I also have a stupid high pain tolerance (like making it through my vasectomy without anesthesia while only saying ouch under my breath, because my surgeon didn’t believe I could still feel everything), but my mom knew about this from her masters degree and applied it to me.
I have seen toddlers fall over and be fine until their mum started freaking out, THEN they start crying.
I walked up a hill and hurt my hip a bit. Then I got excited and jumped around dancing later that night, and BAM. Hip has hurt for 4 days now (as in, hobble-walking), and considering my track record, will now hurt just slightly until I die and doctors will have no fucking idea why.
In my experience, persistent joint pain can be mitigated by working the muscles that pad that joint.
Consider doing some yoga or basic tai-chi that will stretch the region that is in pain. As you move through forms and poses you will figure out which muscle or muscle group needs to be strengthened and you will find movements that work it.
I’ve got some gnarly arthritis so my joints are always inflamed. Yoga helps me to keep the muscles strong enough to power through the inflammation without pain, though with arthritis it always hurts a little 🥲
Thanks for the advice. I actually do yoga and am permanently doing Physical Therapy for my other hip (since doctors said there’s nothing physically wrong with it), so I guess I’ll just keep at it. I also have to remember to actually rest the area when it’s so injured that I’m limping… 😅
Doctors rarely have a clue about the why of anything. They respond to trigger words, fill out paperwork, and send you on your merry way.
I won’t even go for this, even if it continues to hurt, because I’ve learned this lesson.
Just do the dance in reverse
Unfortunately, it was a jump, so I think a reverse jump is just a jump, right?
Per merriam-webster:
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
crawl creep drag poke hang (around or out) linger lag poke dawdle loiter stroll tarry shuffle saunter amble slow (down or up) lumber decelerate plod dillydally dallyI’ve definitely been doing a lot of those things since it happened. Much shuffling, tarrying, and slowing down. I just started back on working out today, but nothing with my hip. 😩
Last panel: Turns around too quickly to look after the kid, now has a painfully stiff neck for a week.
I hope y’all are 80 cause I’m 40’s and pretty damn fit to be fair. Owe it rock climbing, running, lots of walking, and gym but I hate the gym these days it’s so boring.
Use it or lose it people.
It is good to see this comment. Seeing the same joke of “I’m 30 and basically invalid” repackaged over and over on the internet and so many people finding it relatable is worrying.
It only takes a few years of inactivity and overeating for your body to become a total wreck. There’s nothing stopping 30-year-olds from doing it.
…fourties are when the little injuries start; nothing debilitating, just minor tweaks from time to time which surprise that your resilience isn’t quite what it was twenty years ago…
…fifties are when they sneak up to get their revenge…
As someone in my 30s I’ve been told that by folks in their 40s and 50s about hitting the 30s and so far besides a reduction in the ability to not get a hangover I’m not really seeing it… I can’t speak from experience so far but part of me wonders if that’s not just folks projecting their own specific issues onto those younger than them.
I’m not casting shade on you specifically, I don’t know your specific circumstances, it just makes me wonder how much of this is age vs how long folks have gone without exercise and have begun to atrophy. Kids play and run a lot so one could assume they’re probably more fi than we are even if they’re weaker and slower than us due to their size.
…hey, you do you: the only thing i noticed by my late thirties was that working all-nighters hit me a little harder than it used to…
I’m still active in my 40’s and I have a bunch of nagging sports injuries, some of which trace back 20+ years. Overuse injuries are common, too. Ask pretty much any serious runner or lifter or full time athlete, and they’ll all have things that they just live with.
48yo alpinist who climbs 5.12+ here. I’m constantly injured. If you’re not doing regular training for injury prevention it will come back to bite you in your 50’s or 60’s and you will not have the framework to navigate the injury without further fitness loss and a downward spiral of capabilities.
The rock gym is where I fucked up my shoulders. That was the beginning of the end. That, then office job, then kids, then pandemic. I’m working on regaining some movement, though.
You got this bro.
Yep, same age here. I have a herniated disk. I stretch in the AM and before bed. Probably once a year I’ll do something stupid like lift something way to heavy and aggravate it, and then I just take it easy for a day or two and I’m fine again. People just don’t move around anymore, everyone is sedentary now. Just getting you 10k steps in helps a ton.
Hell if you’re a gamer like me, get walkscape and play a game with the amount of steps you do in a day.
Just move around.
The kid is really going to feel that in a few decades.
Ah yes, meaty-or pain. We’ll all going through this.
Yeah, that’s the secret. All of the crap you shrug off as a kid just bides its time to come back when you’re old. Like, 30.
Hahaha! Yes! You may live until you’re 90, kids, but 60 of those will be spent suffering! You’ll be old by 30! Boomers! Hahaha! Boomers everywhere!
I actually keep a velcro wrap in the backpack I take everywhere because between decades of being a dancer, soccer player, and a roller derby skater and the injuries I had doing those things, coupled with my age, it’s eminently possible for me to just ‘step wrong’ and have to wrap up an ankle.
I feel this. I can make my ankle audibly crunch on command by rotating it the right way
My ankles, wrists, and shoulders have done that as long as i remember
I didn’t know we had free fortune telling on Lemmy!
I’m so cooked
I have an ace bandage in my gear bag for the same reason. Though, the ace bandage is a bit unhelpful when I strain my hip on a high kick.
That’s just adrenaline. Old man can sleep easy knowing the kid is gonna die after it wears off.
the kid is gonna die after it wears off
Ah yes, the SUV is basically the bride from Kill Bill, doing the five point palm exploding heart technique.
Pai Mei and his brand new ten points meaty-or crush technique.
haha, this is it, this artist achieved expertise over layout.
I like a lot of their ideas, but this one is executed pretty flawlessly.
very funny.
By far my favorite.
Wow it’s been ages since I’ve seen VG Cats.
RAT-MACE!
I thought it was a rat flail?
Dude
It was so long ago, probably. But it was a rat tied to a stick and I laughed my ass off
Let’s relive that moment. https://vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=110
still going, and updated this year.
Go Scott!
Ok so I was 13 when that came out and it’s still a little funny but not as funny as I remember.
Also, dang, I forgot that we used that sort of language then:
If I remember right there was an episode where they summoned him without heart, and he was a jerk.
that’s really interesting. I listened to a podcast with one of the writers, or maybe the creator, I can’t remember right now, and he talked about how sincere everybody was about creating the superhero who could actually change the cultural lack of concern about climate change.
and what’s super cool is like statistically and culturally, it looks like the show worked.
like yeah everything is still fucked, but it would have been way worse a generation earlier if a bunch of awesome nerds didn’t make Captain planet for generation x so they would become horrified over climate change.
[here it is] (https://share.google/H4LaAuoFDf6AS01Al)
And one without wind, he couldn’t fly
hahaha holy crap i am laughing out loud, thank you, dang that’s so funny
“EARTH!”
“FIRE!”
“WIND!”
“WATER!”
“MCDONALD’S!”
Twins.
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I’m 35 and I can still count on one hand the times I threw out my back. All of them happened when I was a full time trucker and didn’t go to the gym.
I had to do the brakes on my car. Squatted down before even starting to work and promptly threw out my back
I’m 22
I had to move house and overpacked a lot of boxes with heavy books and tools. My form of “carrying” was to press the box firmly into my stomach and lever the weight onto my back and then hobble like a crippled zombie with the box.
Naturally had no problems doing that for several hours. No, what got me was a month later when a lady asked if I could carry her baby stroller up the stairs. I did it no problem, and then I walked away in tears.
It took 2 weeks to get over the pain, I could barely sleep, and going to the toilet was a chore. I cured myself with a morning door stretch and by twisting back to wipe myself on the toilet. Both fantastic stretches no joke.
Some people live their lives without suffering from backpain. Sadly, we are just the unlucky ones 😕
We are legion.
Significantly older and never have had it. I don’t do gym, but am fairly active.
My father has gotten to 70 without significant back pain, though he started to get some hip pain a couple years after retirement but started walking and that seems to have gotten better.
Good genes are a nice stroke of luck
