Starting to feel old in the gym...

[The Survivor]

I feel your pain Bro...I'm 54 and besides decreasing strength, now have the following:
*Overactive bladder, yrs ago when I said I had to go, it meant within 20 minutes..now its 20 seconds
*Pre-narcoleptic...I can fall asleep within minitues, even in the dentists chair
*CRS
*CSS (cant see shit)
*Viagra is part of my pre-sex routine
*Hair grows everywhere except where it should
*6 Pack abs now closer to keg
*After 33 yrs of heavy lifting, my joints are fucked
*Didnt Lee Haney just win the O last yr??

 

[BigZ]

You know what gets me? I get these damned knots in my back that I NEVER used to get in my teens or twenties (I'm 44 now)! Where the F do these come from??? I know, I know, stress, blah, blah. I get 'em when I'm not stressed, too! And they never fully go away, just recede into the background until they decide to return.............

I thought I was the only one who had that. I can't get rid of these knots at all. I'm going to have to try a good deep massage. Sometimes they are so painful, the pain shoots up my neck. I'm only a year older than you, btw.[TABLE="width: 533"]
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[down2kill]

Were not getting old...Were all just experienced!

 

[EMW14]

For the knots if you can find a chiropractor who does A.R.T.: Active Release Techniques, that helps, too. If you never heard of it, it's not just your typical bone cruncher chiro (though I have no objections to a good one of those). A.R.T. is soft tissue work, like a sipercharged - and painful at times - massage. Like a massage on.... um... steroids! Lol! Sorry, couldn't resist. Anyway, if you find a good ART chiro that can help loads as well. They're not all the same, some are better than others. The Active Release Techniques website has a "providor locator" to help find one. Unfortunately, insurance doesn't always cover the ART, which I think has more to do with the docs not knowing how to bill properly, because two or three of the five or six I've been to inly charge me my copay.

And I tell people I'm not getting 'older', I'm getting better!!!

 

[big in vegas]

I feel your pain Bro...I'm 54 and besides decreasing strength, now have the following:
*Overactive bladder, yrs ago when I said I had to go, it meant within 20 minutes..now its 20 seconds
*Pre-narcoleptic...I can fall asleep within minitues, even in the dentists chair
*CRS
*CSS (cant see shit)
*Viagra is part of my pre-sex routine
*Hair grows everywhere except where it should
*6 Pack abs now closer to keg
*After 33 yrs of heavy lifting, my joints are fucked
*Didnt Lee Haney just win the O last yr??

Lmao, can't see shit huh? I think my lose of eye sight is from the tanning bed. At least that's what I'm blaming it on, especially my night vision

 

[down2kill]

Downtokill, don't take this the wrong way, it's just a suggestion and may not apply in your case at all. Take ibuprofin AFTER your workout, NOT before.

Here's why, and how I came to know this: First the why I know this. My wife has Osteoporosis. In searching for info on this, ways to combat it and what makes it worse, I learned that during "mechanical loading" of the skeletal system (a fancy way to say "weight training"), blood rushes to not only the muscles but also the bones, carrying nutrients and other good stuff. This is why weight training helps increase bone mass. Basically it works very similar to how muscles get built insofar as blood flow goes. This is actually "inflammation". Taking anti inflammatory meds before a workout reduces this effect.

Taking it AFTER a workout somehow INCREASES bone density somehow - I disremember how that works but there was some study I came across in my reading on the subject that substantiated this.

Again, perhaps this isn't a concern but I'm aware of it because of my wife's circumstances and I figure to be proactive in keeping that nasty condition out of my life as much as possible, given my age (44).

Asa side note, she went from osteopena (sort of "pre" osteoporosis) to full tilt osteoporosis with 20% bone loss in ONE YEAR!! So this stuff can really come on fast. In the interest of not hijacking this thread, I'll stop there, hut figured I'd put it out there for y'all's consideration...

Usually There’s no good reason to take ibuprofen before you exercise, unless you take it for arthritis or another painful musculoskeletal condition that would otherwise prevent you from exercising. Or maybe shrapnel working its way to the surface....just sayin.
Its helps a lot of older guys with arthritis and joint pain, but your right I would try aspirin first, less harmful on the stomach.
Thanks