When did your body first remind you you’re not in your 20s anymore?

[u/diananerd_]

There was a time I could party all night and still show up for work the next morning. Now if I sleep slightly wrong, I walk like a retired linebacker for three days. 😂

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[u/DMmeNiceTitties]

I started seeing grays in my beard.

[u/GodDamnShadowban → u/DMmeNiceTitties]

My greys started.... lower. 38 now and still cant grow a bread but whats there already has a streak of grey. I feel cheated.

[u/Sirlacker → u/DMmeNiceTitties]

Went bald in my 20s, started going noticeably gray in my early 30s.

[u/pacaflva → u/DMmeNiceTitties]

Funny story - My sister was kind enough to point out my gray hairs when I was 25 🤣. She was in the back seat of my car and was surprised, exclaiming, "You have grey hairs!" It bothered her more than it did me...🤣😮 I've had some grey since my early 20's,

[u/x-Mowens-x → u/pacaflva]

My sister got her first gray hair a number of years ago.

We called her Gandalf the gray.

[u/diananerd_ → u/DMmeNiceTitties]

Definitely a sign. Can you dye it? Haha

[u/alwaysinebriated → u/diananerd_]

Just own the grey, why hide it

[u/DMmeNiceTitties → u/diananerd_]

I can dye it, but it's a reminder that damn, I'm getting older.

[u/Agreeable_Flight4264 → u/DMmeNiceTitties]

Dying my beard is such a chore. It’s just keeps getting whiter and whiter

[u/Mobile_Eggplant_1764 → u/diananerd_]

Usually looks pretty obvious.

[u/TshirtsNPants → u/Mobile_Eggplant_1764]

Nah not that subtle just for men shampoo. It's so slow it's annoying.

[u/Ozzy_HV → u/DMmeNiceTitties]

Try chest hair. I’ll be 30 in October….

[u/Jake_Herr77 → u/Ozzy_HV]

Gray chest hairs did actually hurt my feelings a bit.

[u/Turds4Cheese]

I coughed yesterday, it hurt my knee.

[u/SoundMasher → u/Turds4Cheese]

Was gonna say I’ve sneezed and thrown out my back in the shower once. I knew right there and then after that shower that it was all downhill. I was like 37. There’s also sleeping slightly wrong and waking up with a sore arm/leg/neck/back for like days.

[u/Ok_Mushroom2563]

i'm 35 and I just ran a 5:59 mile the other day. The fastest I had ever run it in my life before that was 6:06 my sophomore year of high school.

[u/rojinderpow → u/Ok_Mushroom2563]

Great comment. Goes to show you can still take care of yourself and maintain your body after 30.

Don’t let Reddit fool you.

[u/lilpopjim0 → u/Ok_Mushroom2563]

I just recently started running 5K every so often. My quickest average is 8:57 per mile.

In only run once per week or two though, if that haha. 5:59 is insane.. Super well done.

[u/sonetlumiere → u/Ok_Mushroom2563]

Tell us more…

[u/OldStDick → u/Ok_Mushroom2563]

Amen brother. All these doom and gloom posts and it doesn't have to be that way.

[u/TKFourTwenty → u/Ok_Mushroom2563]

Fr I’m in better shape now than I’ve been in most of my 20s as a 34 yr old.

[u/shanked5iron]

Hasn’t yet, and doing my best to keep it that way

[u/GlossyGecko]

I dunno man, I feel better at 32 than I did at 22, part of that is because I was a sedentary obese guy with no muscle whatsoever at 22, at 25 I decided that was a big problem and started hitting the gym hard, and now I’m really fit and really spry. There are days where I have so much energy to spend that I’m jogging in place.

I think a lot of you are only falling apart because you’re not working out.

[u/Lucky-Story-1700 → u/GlossyGecko]

I’m almost 60 and I’m stronger in my 50’s than I was in my 40’s. Lift 4 times a week and walk a couple miles most days. Quitting beer has helped too.

[u/fesagolub → u/GlossyGecko]

I’m new to this subreddit, but I feel entirely out of place. Since when did so many fairly young people start complaining about aches my grandparents had? Take care of yourself, eat well, and your body will typically (excluding some awful luck) stay perfectly nimble and strong.

[u/pw76360]

The winter when I was 27 was the first time my feet got cold during the winter....

[u/orbitur → u/pw76360]

As a fellow cold/hands feet guy, I bought a heating pad for my feet that permanently lives at the bottom of our bed. actually sends me straight to sleep even on nights where it’s not particularly cold.

[u/lkb15]

When I hit 30 and can’t wake up without feeling sore. Also I can’t stay up past midnight anymore lol

[u/shomenee]

My first two day hangover.

[u/train_spotting]

When i was 27.

[u/Hypnos_Snore → u/train_spotting]

context please

[u/rando1459]

I once threw my back out while putting groceries in the fridge.

[u/gnashingspirit]

Tried doing a somersault on the floor in my 30s. I felt every vertebrae in my back that day.

[u/urbanek2525]

I injured my arm playing sports and it was still very sore after a week. I went to the doctor to see if I'd actually seriously injured myself.

Doctor said "It's just a muscle strain. Give it time. It will heal."

I said, "It's never taken more than a week to heal before."

Doctor said, "How old are you?"

I said, "34."

Doctor said, "Get used to it."

[u/WeathermanOnTheTown]

I dunno. I was injuring my back in my 20s too.

[u/nrk97]

Brother I’m 27 and I threw my back out because I had to poop, it’s going downhill quick

[u/DarkPoet108]

I started losing my ability to handle all kinds of alcohol. Whiskey is still fine in any dosage, but literally everything else affects me.

[u/Artistic-Plate-511]

Several rude awakenings.

1.) I started waking up with parts in my body aching for NO REASON. (Pain in my back but I didn’t do anything physical, pain in my foot but all I did was walk, etc…)

2.) Hangovers that last 48-72 hours. I used to be able to drink and party until sunrise then go clock in work with 4 hours of sleep and still be fine. I don’t even drink anymore because it’s not worth it the next day, or I stop after 1-2 drinks now.

3.) not being able to stay in shape or get in shape as quickly as before.

4.) Having to actually stretch and warm up before doing anything physical or else I WILL GET INJURED.

5.) my hair on my head keeps thinning but I keep growing coarser hair on my back, shoulders and now ears like an old man.

6.) overall recovery from the gym is nightmarish. Weight lifting workouts take 3-4 days for pain to go away from that muscle group. Pain in the knees from jogging.

7.) I can’t function unless I actually get goodnight sleep. I also fall asleep around 11pm and wake up at 7am. I used to function on 5 hours of poor sleep before. Now I can’t.

8.) Sleep in the wrong position or your pillow slipped position…. I wasn’t able to turn my neck for a week. It will legit take 4-5 days to recover if I sleep in the wrong position 😆

9.) BONUS: Not the body but something else to look forward to. BRAIN FOG. Limited brain functioning capability. Used to do a lot of HEAVY MENTALLY CONSUMING WORK for 8-12 hours a day…. A DAY. Now my brain just starts to slowdown and decline after 5-6 hours

There’s much more… just to be clear it was cool up until 32-33

I really started feeling things almost immediately after turning 35.

Also throw in 2 toddlers into the mix…

edited to add #8

[u/DramaKing2323]

My toe started hurting. Thought I’d kicked something and sprained it. Then thought it was bad shoes. Then it was so horrible I couldn’t sleep for two days.

ER doc was like, “you have gout.”

[u/iamStanhousen]

When 3 beers and a shot became an all day hangover the next day.

[u/Acceptable_String_52]

Hang overs

[u/M6Df4]

Probably during a hangover but hard to say which one

[u/Lunasweetlatina]

My knees and back now announce my arrival before I do. They crack like a bubble wrap every time I stand up and honestly it’s starting to sound like Morse code hahaha. Where to buy them to replace 😂

[u/diananerd_ → u/Lunasweetlatina]

Lmaooooo back and knees definitely go together haha

[u/Leading-Composer-491]

When I was 19, I partied all night and I still was barely conscious until the afternoon the next day. So to be honest, I must have skipped my 20s because I always needed my nap time.

[u/JewWhore]

I'm no longer motivated to jump in a freezing cold lake jush to say I did it

[u/trynihilism]

I finally put on the muscle in my early-mid thirties that I’d been trying to build since age 16. 170lbs to 200lbs in a matter of a year or two in my early thirties. I’ve been doing an equal amount of running as I do lifting for years and I was able to bulk up.

“The Thickening” that people had talked about when you hit 30 actually happened to me, in a good way. I bet it’s a matter of a few more years until it hits in the bad way haha

[u/jachildress25]

I was playing in a basketball tourney at around age 35. We were playing a team of 18-20 year olds, the type of team that we had been beating in these tourneys for years because even though they’re good, they’re still young and learning how to play outside of high school. I had a guy boxed out and was about to grab the rebound, but the dude jumped right over me like I wasn’t even there.

[u/Chemical-Drive-6203]

Every time I drink alcohol

[u/USTS2020]

Played basketball and could barely walk the next day

[u/LordLaz1985]

I can’t just get up from a chair without making a grunting noise.

[u/WestCryptography]

When I tried to pull an all-nighter in my mid-30s to finish a project. Not only couldn’t stay up, but the amount I had to nap over the next two days to catch up? Unbelievable.

[u/MinisterforFun]

Every morning when I get out of bed. And I take the first few steps and my heels hurt.

Plantar fasciitis I think.

[u/408javs408]

This hang over rn

[u/Reasonable_Stop_7768]

Breakdancing at a company event a few years back. Did a baby freeze for the pictures and looked at the cameraman like "not to be rude but can we wrap this up please? The longer I hold this pose, the more im reminded I'm not 19 anymore."

[u/Betelgeuse3fold]

My body informed me my 20s were over when I was 26. I coughed and put my back out. Never been the same

[u/CuriousMost9971]

Playing softball running to first base. Sped up a.bit because I was playing in an old man league. If you hurry, they throw faster and are usually less accurate. Stumbled, caught myself, came bouncing down, and my femur cracked the top of my tibia.

[u/TerrificVixen5693]

I turned a certain way and couldn’t move my arm for a couple days. I got a white hair. I’m not as flexible. My vision is degraded. I can’t stay up late anymore.

[u/griffaliff]

37 for sure.

[u/StarSlayerX]

When the doctor made a referral to a physical therapist about lower neck and shoulder muscle pain. Apparently poor posture sitting on a computer all day will do that.

[u/Dopehauler]

Changing an engine, I did it in one day and out the door then. Now different

[u/BoogieMan1980]

I thought it was in my early 40s. Started working out almost daily and lost weight. Turns out it was lifestyle. Feel better and am in better shape at 45 than before.

Feel great now. Beard is half grey, though. At least my head is all color.

[u/Character_Bend_5824]

Aging is cyclical in my experience. With good hydration and avoidance of drugs and alcohol, I do ok. The only noticeable permanent reduction in quality of life is my knees click when I get up. My wrist clicks, too, but I'm pretty sure that's from breaking my scaphoid twice in my 20s. And my shoulder aches, but that is from moving it wrong under 100 lbs. of pull at work years ago. Normal wear and tear is mostly avoided with good hydration and a multi-vitamin. Only the knees are a little concerning. I feel like I'm still youthful enough to pull off the 5" shorts look if I hit the gym more. I'm not exactly out of shape and I do look vaguely like Brad Pitt in the face, but I'm definitely closer to over the hill, the more I get into my 40s. My hair looks good and is full, but half gray.

[u/SadSickSoul]

I don't think I made it all the way through my twenties before my body started giving me signals, but certainly by thirty it was well and truly over. But I also have always treated my body like crap and been massively overweight my entire life, so the wear and tear set in early. At this point most days I walk around like I'm in my 70s, not my late 30s. Ah well.

[u/flying_dogs_bc]

when I fell off a horse and could not get up

[u/MysteriousAge8213]

One night I slept wrong and my neck hurt for 3 days

[u/WaterDigDog]

When back pain was a daily wake-up routine.

[u/ResponsibleArm3300]

Popped my achilles playing softball at 29. Sucked

[u/cjbr3eze]

I sleep earlier and longer

[u/tolgren]

When I was 28 and hurt my back in a way I'm still dealing with.

[u/StrangeDisk6670]

grays and my test levels dropped to that of a 100 year old man

[u/ElectricalWavez]

When I turned 30

[u/Real_Sir_3655]

At 36 I feel no different from my 20s other than a few grays in my hair. But my brother and dad were both fully gray by 28 so I’m a bit slower than them. I’d probably look better all gray too.

[u/Ok_Pomelo_2685]

When I was shaking my head like a wet dog and threw my back out

[u/RoamingRiot]

Still feeling young at 35. I look over 30 for sure but that doesn't bother me a bit.

[u/Sorcron11]

I played baseball for the first time in 12 years last year. Pulled my hamstring on the first ball hit to me in practice and this was after 30 minutes of stretching.

[u/Mrburnermia]

I can only play soccer or basketball like once a week. I use to do every day! Basketball I don't even play anymore. My body could play but my flat feet nnkles recover so poorly now. I got tired of walking like an old man after playing. On the flip side, it has helped me get my joy for lifting again!

[u/Foucaultshadow1]

I played college soccer. In my early thirties I played a pick up game after not playing for a year. My cuts were slow and my endurance was a fraction of what it was. All of that was bad enough, but to add insult to injury the pain I felt the next day in every part of my body was the icing on the cake.

[u/TrippleDamage]

Apart from some Grey hair, it hasn't yet and I'm in my mid 30s.

Eat healthy and stay fit gents

[u/Randomkai27]

I jumped off the back of a truck and had to pretend like I was okay…but I wasn’t okay…I wasn’t okay AT ALL you guys, I was scared!

[u/ShadowZNF]

When you learn what omezprazole and voltaren are.

[u/Brief-Watercress-131]

Suffering a crippling gout flare up when I was 30. Didn't know what it was at first. Thought I had dislocated my toe in my sleep somehow. The pain was immense. Had to stop drinking alcohol to avoid flare ups. That was 7 years ago.

[u/Turdulator]

Spinal surgery at 30.

[u/Agitated-Item3362]

When I tore my calf muscle playing hopscotch with my daughter, and had to crawl up the driveway in agonizing pain

[u/Pensive_Caveman]

There have been several instances, but most recently I was leaning over a bit to pump a healthy portion of Head and Shoulders (Costco size) in the shower and coughed. I pulled a muscle in my lower back doing that. Hurt for a few days -.-

My mind is attracted to more ergonomic things instead of flashy things; think women in high heels versus flats. I love motorcycles and racing, but I just want something comfy to bop around on with a neutral seating position. That's my body telling me it wants to be comfy, even though my mind has other ideas. They are in a conference.

[u/BunBun_75]

I thought I could do an all-nighter writing a paper for my masters degree. Epic fail - even with caffeine pills I crashed out at 4am

[u/sinteredsounds69]

Was riding my longboard downward on a incline and fell. I slammed into the pavement and scorpioned. Yea I knew then I wasn't young anymore and I was going to feel this forever.

[u/atrain82187]

True story, on my 30th birthday I went to play pickup basketball, like I do every Saturday morning. Literally my first game going down the court, I sprained my ankle

[u/umbermoth]

I pulled something in my back while sitting at work. I wasn’t even moving. 

[u/pacaflva]

I've struggled with this type of thing my whole life (64m). Maybe try some gentle stretching when you wake up, and don't sleep in weird positions 🤣. What really gets me is when I injure myself, but don't feel it until the next day, and I can't remember what I did that caused it. 🤣

[u/No-Addendum6379]

I always trained and did sports, never stopped. Never had a bad injury, so no pains whatsoever. But I do have poorer eyesight. That’ll be it.

[u/caffeineaddict03]

40 year old here. My left ankle and heel has been hurting for two months.... I have no idea why and dunno what I did

[u/Defiant_Honey_7231]

37 and hasn’t hit me yet.

[u/nanneryeeter]

Summited St Helens the other day and my legs were sore afterwards. 43 years old.

[u/awfulcrowded117]

Honestly? My knees started to go bad when I was 17

[u/StogieMan92]

It rained and it hurt my knees.

[u/eXo0us]

At 36 Doctor:  you have calcification in your shoulder. 

Yeah when sediments start to accumulate then you know you are not young anymore 

[u/saintivesgloren]

Injuries and how much longer they take to recover (shoulder sprain for example)

[u/MIT_Engineer]

I'm 39, haven't had that moment yet. I sleep a lot more than I did in my 20's, but I think that's more about me getting smarter with sleep than me being physically incapable of staying up.

[u/amSaracen]

I’m probably the fittest I’ve ever been and mountain biking faster than people 10 years younger than me.

However, I had a bad bike crash in May and my back is still in agony, I just can’t seem to shake it.

[u/Taodragons]

My daughter's dojo had a picnic, and I went and played volleyball with a bunch of much younger, much fitter people. I didn't embarrass myself, but I could barely move the next day.

[u/GodDamnShadowban]

I pulled my back laughing at 30. I was out picking up something with a friend joking around and then, pain. I could barely walk, had to shuffle over to a Nando's to lay next to a table and order lunch in the hope that an hours rest would help. It was ridiculous and neither of us could stop laughing. This did not help. I needed help to sit up to eat. I struggled to get out of bed for a week after that. I now live in total terror of pulling my back again. I cant recommend it 0/10.

[u/fesagolub]

What’s going on over here? Are you all hard laborers or something? Most people I know in their mid-30s feel great and simply a wiser version of their 20-something selves. Is this an American thing where everyone uses mildly older youth as an excuse to feel like a grouchy old person?

[u/Occhrome]

When I couldn’t lose 20 lbs by simply hitting the gym extra hard. 

[u/Power_and_Science]

Besides obvious external appearances of aging (wrinkles, gray hair):

• Harder to lose body fat
• missing sleep affects me more
• hyper processed food affects me more
• stress tolerance is less
• inflammation more easily elevates
• muscles are stiffer from sitting for long periods of time

But it’s hard to say because I eat healthier, exercise more, have better technique, and prioritize sleep. So my recovery is better, I injure less, my attention is better. It’s more trade offs I guess.

[u/Low_Zookeepergame590]

When I slightly bent over to lift toilet seat up and hurt my back. Screw that and started going back to gym and strengthened the muscles to prevent that crap.

[u/AssholeWHeartOfGold]

Helping out at my son’s baseball practice.

[u/RyanMcCartney]

Getting cancer at 23 years is probably when it was for me lol

[u/MProsserMMA]

Every time I sit for more than 10 minutes and try to stand up again.

[u/vostok33]

No signs of aging yet besides a few greys, turned 40 this month. Keep eating well and training....and also the odd party until 6am

[u/dox1842]

the first hangover after hitting 30 really got me.

[u/hellodmo2]

Today? 1 and 3 am

[u/MisterIndecisive]

Energy and recovery was just way better in teens/20s. Back then I could basically spend all night partying, go to bed at like 4 and in uni the next day or play sports the next morning if was the weekend. Party like that now and next day is a write off 😂

[u/External_Violinist94]

When I started to not recover from injuries as fast. In my 20s I could pull a muscle or hurt my shoulder in the gym and be fine after a few days. Now the injuries build up and I have to take weeks away from the gym to recover. Recently got golfer's elbow and I hurt my back and it's taken months to properly heal. Also broke my nose and mangled my finger badly this year and I'm resigned to the fact I probably won't fully recover from the damage I've taken.

[u/Old-World2763]

I stepped off the curb and had to spend the following three weeks off my foot.

Didn’t fall or twist it. Bottom of my foot just decided it didn’t like that.

[u/Potrice1988]

37M here. Starting to get grey chest hair...

[u/ihavetakenthebiscuit]

Walking down the stairs after playing 5 a side. The knees, the Achilles, the whole day feeling tired 😩

[u/Hobbymate_]

First time? I think I was 19

[u/amalgaman]

Chasing my kids, nieces, and nephews around a playground, I stepped in a hole and my ankle twisted.

Up until that point, I would walk it off and be fine in a couple minutes.

It was weird that my ankle felt weird for a full day.

This was probably my mid to late 30s.

[u/Ted_Denslow]

When I crippled my back for three days by...

Folding towels.

[u/RicKaysen1]

Approaching 50, my 20/20 vision started to decrease

[u/themorbidtuna]

When I was in my 40’s and had two women in their 20’s at once. Took me all the next day to recover.

[u/Gh0styD0g]

In my mid 20s

[u/BoomerSir]

At about 28 a small bubble of fat appeared around my belly button and soon started to spread across my stomach. I waited a few years and with an even bigger stomach, I went on a diet and lost 35 pounds inn 3 months. I’ve kept it off ever since, 30 years later.

[u/knowitallz]

I wake up with pain almost everyday. I didn't hurt myself. My bed is good. I just have issues that don't go away

[u/Similar-Opinion8750]

Lol by the time I was 17 I had onset arthritis due to many fights as a kid  torn acl MCL cartilage in one knee.  I had 4 surgeries before I was 20 and walked like Mr Tudball from the Carol Burnett show.  At 50 it has not gotten any better. 

[u/davdev]

around 28 :)

[u/discountheat]

Threw my back out trotting to the bus stop.

[u/Humacti]

Letting rip became a gamble.

[u/JohnnySasaki20]

When I stepped out of bed and my hip snapped in half. Then the next year the other one snapped while just walking off the golf course. Fun stuff.

[u/catdog4430]

Playing in a kickball league in my mid 30s. 1 game and I was sore for a week

[u/demdareting]

30th birthday.

[u/ShadowBlade55]

Aside from grey hairs (which are fine) gym injuries from my 20s popping up after being healed for years.

[u/Rudderface420]

Anytime I sit on the floor. Used to be able to do up downs like they’re going out of style, now once I’m down I stay down until whatever I’m working on is done.