AboutDavid Dickeson, A.S. Expertise At age 33, I began to worry about "turning 40." I decided to do something - anything! - before I was 'over the hill' in life and health. I figured that once you turn "age 40," life was 'over,' and you spend the next 40 years rapidly aging and "falling apart." If you were lucky, the 'blessing' of death would come before it was too late!!
I am now 56 (May, 08!) and I am enjoying life more than I ever had. How wrong - mentally - I was! When I became STRONGER - physically - everything got better for me.
"Growing old" is NOT a 'natural process.' It is a terrible disease you have to FIGHT each day.
Experience Proper exercise is the answer to "aging well." I have been exercising for 23 years and I have 'first-hand' experience at to what works, and what does not. Especially for older people like myself. Good health does NOT come from sitting in a stuffed chair, 'weightlifting' by lifting soup cans and watching "Murder She Wrote..." This was advised to me by a federal agency for aging seniors! GIVE me a BREAK!!
You can also find me on Allexperts under weightlifting and "how to get what you want in life."
Question I always heard men complain about the aches and pains that they get as they get older. What kind of aches and pains do they get and where do they get it at? Is it all over and really painful?
Thanks.
Answer Hello Timothy
The pain is in the bone joints.
Between our bones we have a thin layer of soft tissue that keeps the bone joints from grinding together.
As we grow older, and our metabolism slows down, the blood flow also slows down. This directly affects this thin layer of soft tissue. The layer get's thinner.
Now include a life where you do a lot of heavy work, as most men do, the pressure between the bone joints also squeezes the thin layer of soft tissue, making it even thinner!
Now you are older. When you do any movement or picking up anything, bone and bone joints GRIND together, very little soft tissue to lubricate the bone joints, or worse; NO soft tissue to lubricate the bone joints.
The result; various levels of pain, from mild stiffness, all the way up to excruciating pain! Movement, rubbing, stretching, heat, cold - NOTHING! stops that first "jab" of the terrible pain. You just grit your teeth and try to 'endure' the pain.
If the pain is all over the body, then ALL the joints are aggravated.
Most of the pain is limited to specific parts of the body, for example, your arm from using a hammer all your life. Golfers and tennis players get it from making the same movements, year after year.
What is the cure for this problem? Stretching; daily, aerobics; daily, light weight lifting; daily, and heavy lift-and-hold lifting, once a week. All these exercises push the metabolism up, grow more tissue, more blood vessels, and make more blood, make the bones and bone joints stronger and smoother, make the muscles tighter and the tendons stronger. Done when you are young, when you get old, you will not be bothered by all these aches and pains.
When you are old, and have such aches and pains, doing these exercises will reverse most of the pain and stiffness and then KEEP it away from your body, no matter how old you get.
Unfortunately, as I have learned, MOST people - especially retired people - will NOT exercise. They have a thousand excuses. So as they get older and older, they get stiffer and in more pain. Especially men. Due to their larger and heavier bodies, compared to women.
Thanks for the question. If you have any more questions, please write again.
