• bricklove@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    54 minutes ago

    Working my way gradually down to deep squats has been great for my knees. It doesn’t take much to get there and maintain. I just found times to hold a squat for a bit while watching TV or gardening. Also, the knees over toes guy has some good advice for keeping your joints healthy.

  • muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    4 hours ago

    I’m pushing 40 and my knees are just fine. My esophageal sphincter on the other hand is very angryface. Omeprazole helps but it’s very much thrown in the towel.

    Ugh, kill me.

    • Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Same for me, sucks knowing that I have to take PPIs for pretty much the rest of my life or deal with constant heartburn and an increased cancer risk…

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    46·
    2 hours ago

    Lol 30 and you’re faking knee problems. Perhaps consider standing up like once day.

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
    45·
    9 hours ago

    OK I chuckled but real talk: knee trouble in your 30s isn’t normal and shouldn’t be treated as normal

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 hours ago

      Isn’t normal? Maybe if you never injured them doing things. Knee problems are extremely common, human knees are poorly evolved and prone to injury just by being used.

      Backpacking, skiing, horse riding wrecked mine long ago. Now I just try to keep the surrounding muscles fit to hold all the loose shit together.

      • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 hour ago

        Isn’t normal? Maybe if you never injured them doing things.

        Thanks for confirming that it isn’t normal. Most people who are 30 have not injured their knees to the point of issues.

  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    10·
    8 hours ago

    37 here, my knees are great. Sprained my ankle back for the very first time back in November in my kickboxing class and I’m starting to fear I’ve done permanent damage.

    • Nangijala@feddit.dk
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Same. It satisfies my craving for popping bubble plast. More environmentally friendly too. Win/win.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 hours ago

    My knees and I have a love/hate relationship. They loved me for about 20 years and I hated on them so much that they no longer work

  • qwestjest78@lemmy.ca
    26·
    11 hours ago

    I’m 30 and my body feels better than when I was 20. Looking after myself alot better now.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 hours ago

      I think the issue is that if you had injuries at younger age, those injuries become inflamed again as you become older. There are athletes who said their injuries become inflamed again when they hit 30’s. There are also soldiers who passed away after their old wounds became a problem again at old age. The body just can’t keep up repairing itself anymore.

      However, old injuries isn’t just the only explanation. If one have hardly been sporty or did labour intensive jobs at younger age and feeling pain on the knees, it could be genetics. If not, then it is something entirely within the person’s control: overweight. I have friends who gained weight tremendously over the years even though we are only in our early 30’s. One of my friends could hardly walk for long at a pretty short distance. I reckon it is because they work from home and don’t do any exercise (some of them became too jaded and insecure over the years to go to gym), while I and my other friend work on-site so we have more physically demanding jobs and we still do exercise.

      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I think bones also scale up if you are overweight at a young age. My knee bone is almost twice the size of my buddy’s despite being close to the same height. I bet if he’d weigh the same as me those knees would be in trouble. Mine are doing fine tho.

  • ifeelsick@lemm.eeEnglish
    215·
    11 hours ago

    just a reminder that most people bodies do not degrade. they just stop using them as much as they did when they were younger. the human body is surprisingly resilient to breaking down with regular upkeep. Motion is lotion

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    12·
    11 hours ago

    I lost my knees at the ripe ol’ age of 14. Was playing racquetball at the Y, pivoted and it just hurt like a son of a bitch. Turned out I have a cartilage deficiency specifically in my knees as well as ton of damage from falling on them while rollerblading without protection, so kneeling on or doing anything that involves rigorous bending of my knees is out of the question.