What happens when you reach 70 years of age.

I saw this video on Youtube and I call BS. I am 68 and am still mobile and active. I had arthritis in my shoulders a couple of years ago and have gotten rid of it due to weight training. I still have muscle tone and go to the gym 5 days a week. I have a friend there who is 72 and he still spends 2 hours a day at the gym.

I don't expect to feel any different when I pass 70 because I think I have prepared for it. My mother was in her 70's and was lifting weights with a trainer at assisted living. She had an Arnold Schwarzenegger t-shirt and was proud to show me her biceps. :ROFLMAO:

I will admit, when I start having issues I will be the first to admit it for the benefit of other members.

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I call bullshit, another know it all video where people of a specific age group are all put into the same category.

These things could start happening at 55, 70, 85 or not at all.

Older people are likely to become sedentary which is a major cause for the things in the video. A sedentary 40 year old not working and doing almost nothing physical would likely start to have some of these issues.

Of course getting older can make some things more challenging. Common sense tells us we might have to try a little harder to stay active and healthy.

Use it or lose it :)
 
76 year old female. I learned a couple weeks ago no more 50 pound bags of feed. My lower back talked to me for days afterwards.

Yet, day before yesterday I was loading logs up in the loader of my tractor after the guys took their larger chain saws to it and cut it up. I started skipping through that blah blah blah pretty much from the beginning because the thing wasn't talking about me in any way.
 
robin416 said:
76 year old female. I learned a couple weeks ago no more 50 pound bags of feed. My lower back talked to me for days afterwards.

Yet, day before yesterday I was loading logs up in the loader of my tractor after the guys took their larger chain saws to it and cut it up. I started skipping through that blah blah blah pretty much from the beginning because the thing wasn't talking about me in any way.
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1. Coming 79 female here. My back is trashed to where I see the chiropractor weekly and get spinal decompression when I can afford it, since medicare won’t pay for it.

1.1. I now slide the 50# bags off the back seat of the car on to a dolly - I still have some upper body strength to hump the bags onto a dolly🤠

2. I’m waiting on my brother to make the ten hour trip down here, for a week, to cut up and move some tree limbs. I sit on the tractor, he does all the physical work.

2.1 Ditto ”skipping and blah blah blah.

IMHO all that B.S. might apply to someone who has never been physically active. Those of us who still are don’t have time to think about the crap in the video.🤠🤠
 
Imogene said:
1. Coming 79 female here. My back is trashed to where I see the chiropractor weekly and get spinal decompression when I can afford it, since medicare won’t pay for it.

1.1. I now slide the 50# bags off the back seat of the car on to a dolly - I still have some upper body strength to hump the bags onto a dolly🤠

2. I’m waiting on my brother to make the ten hour trip down here, for a week, to cut up and move some tree limbs. I sit on the tractor, he does all the physical work.

2.1 Ditto ”skipping and blah blah blah.

IMHO all that B.S. might apply to someone who has never been physically active. Those of us who still are don’t have time to think about the crap in the video.🤠🤠
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LOL You just reminded me what my sister said when she learned about the stuff I do. You're going to get hurt. That's too much. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Thing is, she is one of those sedentary people, six years younger than me. She couldn't do physically a portion of what I do in a week.

If I'm not going straight home after picking up feed it goes on the floor in the backseat of my truck. I have to lift it out into the cart. I take the cart to where the bin is and have to lift the feed to dump it into the bin. If all I'm doing is getting feed and it's not going to rain, it goes in the bed. Then I can just slide it into the cart.

Still do my own limbs as long as they're not too big for my ten inch bar on the chain saw. This tree that damaged my garage had limbs far too big for my saw.
 
When I turned 70 had a do it now or do it never moment of clarity. So I restarted doing strength exercises, I began breathing exercises by learning a wind instrument and went on a sustainable diet and lost 30 lbs. In a month I will be 71 and am still on that regiment especially the diet and that 30 lbs is still missing. The down side is I had to get all new clothes.

The other day I was doing a pulldown exercise at the gym where you sit and have a weighted bar over your head that you pull down. I pulled a weight that I could never have hoped to have done just a year ago. So I do not believe it's too late for any thing just because a number says I am "old". Some parts don't work as well as they once did but that doesn't mean stop using them.

My big takeaway from this adventure is eat well, don't eat garbage. That goes a long way towards staying healthy. You really are what you eat.
 
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