I assumed the joke was that as you get older things are just more stiff and you don't recover as fast. Yeah, it can be reduced with more exercise/activity but you're still getting older.

There was an event where this became apparent for me. I played softball for years in my 20s. Stopped for a bit and returned in my 30s. I was actually in better shape when I returned. One day mid-season, I was rounding first base, not even particularly fast, and I felt something tweek. By the end of the day I was stuck on the couch and could barely move. I had to take the next day off.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I don’t think that’s what the meme is saying, it really shouldn’t need interpretation. However, I agree with the rest of what you said. Youth gets strength, endurance, and faster recovery. If you’re older, you can still hold on to strength, but endurance and recovery take hits with time.

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yea I'm just about 40 and have no more aches than I did when I was 20. If you are fit and not overweight you likely won't have pains into your 50s.

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, over 30 is when your shit diet and lack of exercise catches up with you more and more. Exercise starts to not be optional if you don't want to feel like shit.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yep.

Quit going to the gym thanks to covid and just started back up a couple months ago. I thought I felt fine before. After a month at the gym just doing super-basic, non-stressful cardio to just improve overall health and I realized that nope, I was not fine. Way better now even after just a month with 4 days a week at the gym and low-impact exercise.

Getting off your ass is highly valuable.

[–] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be fair though, the soreness from regular exercise is what you get in the tradeoff. I have both a regular cardio and strength program I run through every week (5 days of exercise) and a pretty active lifestyle (2 days of outdoor activities every week (hiking, mountainbiking, splitboarding,etc)) and I am generally sore at least somewhere in my body.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure why this needed to be said. The normal soreness from exercise is expected and in a way desirable because you know it’s “working”. Those muscles are taking damage and being rebuilt in a simple way of saying it. This is part of the process that keeps you healthy and fit. That’s entirely different from hurting for unknown reasons when doing nothing.

[–] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think there's a non-zero percentage of people that confuse being sore with having unexplained pain. And there's probably also another group of people that think they can excercise without being sore, given how lots of people exercise tout it as fixing all pain, which might set incorrect expectations.

Anyway, I am just sharing my own experiences.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You absolutely can exercise without being sore. If you head over to /fitness on that other social media site there are plenty of people who can vouch for the fact that doing some decent lifting can end up in a spot where soreness doesn’t happen. I’ve been there, and it kinda sucks because that soreness is sort of a mental reward that “heck yeah, I did work today” and when it’s gone you miss it.

I think people are smart enough to know the difference between not working out and still sore/having pains, temporary exertion and hurting oneself causing soreness/pain,and workout soreness.

I’m not sure that pursuing the semantics of the words and subjective feelings of the differences between soreness and pain is worth pursuing here.

[–] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

You'd be surprised how many people don't know the difference between being sore and having pain, but I digress. I never wanted to discuss semantics, just make a jokey comment about trading pain for discomfort. Forget I mentioned it.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. It's almost like this comedical graphic/text was made by someone who thinks 30 is like being 60 or something...not even close. Lol

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Made by a 15 year old.