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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 50.  I spent the past weekend babying my knee because I did something to it to make it stiff and sore.  That NEVER used to happen to me.  And thankfully it rarely happens now.

But, yeah, my body is aging.  I do not think I'm elderly but I am not in my youth anymore.

People who insist that they feel the same at 50 as they did at 20 either have extremely poor memories or they are kidding themselves.  Or they were pretty darned stiff and decrepit at 20....[/quote] You are wrong.  We are people who are active--all of the time, not just weekend warriors.  I am in much better shape at 55 than I was 20 years ago.[/quote]

O.k.  [b]Then maybe it is fair to say that you were a bit on the decrepit side when you were younger but have since gotten yourself into good shape for a 55 year old.[/b]

As for me, I remember what it took to get into shape at 35 after my first was born.  If I compare what I have to do now to get into similar shape....ugh.  I just don't think that'll be happening.

It doesn't mean that I'm falling apart at 50 or that I'm "old".  But my peri menopausal body is not the same body that it was at 35.  And it sure as heck ain't the same lithe, flexible body I had 20.[/quote]  You would be wrong.  Why the judgment because someone appears to be aging "better" than you.  I have been active my entire life, but changed the type of my exercise and physically feel better than I did 20 years ago.  In no way does that mean I was decrepit.  I was and always have been fit, active and healthy.  I know hike, backpack, kayak and mountain bike where in the past I ran and road biked.  I think part of it is state of mind.  Having had my kids later in life, I am still a parenting teens.  They keep me young and we are active as a family.  I am thinking about be old, run down and ready for the couch.[/quote]

O.k. I believe you!  Maybe with luck in another 20 years you'll be able to say the same thing at the age of 75 :).

I also have kids still in the house (had mine at 34/36).  But I am not going to say that I feel as young at 50 as I did at 35.  I don't.  I don't look as young as I did back then either.  In fact, biologically speaking my cells are not replacing themselves in the same way that they did when I was younger (that is true with everyone - we age for a reason).   I will say that I have definitely benefited from all of the exercise I did throughout my 40's.  If I can get this stupid knee to cooperate again I will be able to get back out there again.  I actually think that it will heal.  Just a day ago I wasn't so sure of that.  I think it's just a sprain...knock wood.[/quote]

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