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Currently in a waiting room because my knees stopped kneeing. And I’m younger than 35.
Start running, it will strengthen the muscles around your knees and protect them. It also brings a million other health benefits.
Just don’t do it wrong though, because then you will ruin everything.
Yes, it’s recommended to start slow and get fitting running shoes
There’s a sweet spot. Go too easy and they get screwed up and go too hard and they screw up.
But it’s true that being reasonably active helps a ton. Someone I know who complained of joint pain as they retired claims it went away as his leisure time caused him to walk all over the place, and now he’s 70 with no joint pain. Closest he got was when we spent two hours in a crawlspace working on some frozen pipes and complained that his back hurt a bit and wondered if it was because he was old. No, even the 20 year old hurt after waddling around hunched over in freezing temperatures for a couple of hours.
Great to hear that being active still strengthens your body when being older. That’s one of my biggest motivations: To be physically healthy and strong when I’m old.
Running is about the worst thing you can do to your knees.
I’m 50. If a terrorist put a gun to my head and ordered me to get on my knees, my head would end up blown off.
Oh hey, it’s actually my 30th birthday today. I feel this.
Happy birthday 🎂
It’s coming for me in a couple months. I was out dancing Friday night, and then did some disc golf wand walking all over town yesterday and my legs are absolutely killing me today
Happy B-day!
More like 40th but still painfully (literally) accurate.
Meh. I’m over 50 and my knees are fine.
You can do some sport. That helps. At least at 30.
I’d say workout, yoga, lift heavy thing.
Sports only if you actually enjoy them. Most people I know heavily into sports get injured and some of injuries do not heal back to 100% ever.
+1 for yoga. Stretching is just as important, but so many people completely neglect it
Stretching every day even if I haven’t done a workout has really rehabilitated my 40s.
Aye only 5 younger than 40, but my doctor tutting I couldn’t touch my toes anymore got me into yoga lol.
This here! You want “low impact” activity that keeps the supporting muscles strong
Until you sport too much and get an injury, and then it’s just a chain reaction of things breaking down because you can’t exercise them like you used to.
Yeah it’s a terrible feeling giving up a sport bc it’s too hard on ya. Like I really love Judo but I just can’t throw myself at the floor repeatedly any more. But I might be able to do Aikido or low-contact Karate (or just strength training which is what I chose). The trick is knowing when to move on, and it’s a tough decision.
Aikido will not over extend your joints, if you have trouble with even safe falls I can’t imagine the instructor would require you to do them.
46 here, knees are fine, digestive system on the other hand…
Posted by someone who has not hit 30 yet.
Nah bro, I’m past the big 3-0. My knees are still good (though I’ve got plenty of other aches and pains to make me feel ancient), but I’ve got friends already complaining. We’re all getting old and decrepit. Big RIP to youth 😔
I stood up from the toilet once and my knee popped and kind of hurt, now every once in a while my knee hurts if I stand up too straight
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.
“And that’s why I have to decline your full Catholic mass wedding, sorry.”
Do you guys like, not walk? I’m not exactly skinny and mine are fine close to 40.
You should go to the doctor if you have knee problems that early
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.
I’m a remote worker and it’s true you need to make time for physical activity every day or you’ll start to feel badly quite quickly.
The good news is you’ve hypotheticaly got more time in the day to do that. Like I can can can lift some weights and go jogging in the time I used to spend coming and going to work.
Or use them every now and then.
I’m 38 and my knees bend fine, they just make more noises now than they used to.
Same. It satisfies my craving for popping bubble plast. More environmentally friendly too. Win/win.
OK I chuckled but real talk: knee trouble in your 30s isn’t normal and shouldn’t be treated as normal
OP probably played football in high school or something.
Perhaps, but all that’s mentioned is age.
I’ve heard knees-crap-out-after-30-amirite jokes since my early 20s. It’s a form of denial coalition-building favored by folks obviously avoiding important lifestyle changes, and it’s rarely harmless to affirm that kind of denial.
In addition, unexplained joint pain is a symptom of a number of chronic illnesses that have better outcomes with early diagnosis and treatment, such as rheumatoid arthritis. If someone thinks it’s normal, they might not even ask about it until the pain and damage is life-altering.
That’s why I say it shouldn’t be treated as normal.
Could be seriously overweight. I know two 30-yo people who joke about old age hitting them hard but almost all of their issues is due to lifelong serious obesity. Not that they’re willing to accept that
One of my neighbors is an entire family of obesity. Mom and dad are both obese. The two high school boys are obese. A younger daughter that looks around 10 is obese. Only a 4ish year old boy is not obese, but he won’t be for long.
That is a rough situation, as from experience I can say trying to maintain a healthy weight will cause the obese folks in the family of accusing you of being anorexic and take any opportunity to try to get you to fatten up.
They also marvel about how I must have good genetics because my back and legs don’t hurt and my blood tests come back so good at physicals.
Their choice. Wanna be fat? It’s okay you can be fat. Don’t want to be fat but you are still fat? Well it is often what happens.
Does this sound reasonable in any way? It’s really hard to formulate simpler sentences with altered brain by chemistry 🧾
I guess my point is that someone being fat doesn’t involve me in any way or affects me negatively. Like it makes me feel better actually if anything
Because if everyone was fit then it would be nothing special. It would be not an accomplishment at all if you could just take a pill and become fit or smh.
No it requires some special attitude and willpower. Focus, dedication, concentration. The kind of which is required for quitting cigarettes cold turkey and that is another challenge under my belt sorry for boasting a little but I like such things. I like quitting things randomly and feeling the pangs of hunger for that addiction and yet stopping it. It is satisfying to do and a source of certain sense of worth. I don’t even feel hunger for vodka anymore though I must admit that it will never stop to be seen by me as a miraculous substance and a liquid ambrosia
Quitting alcohol is strange in this way that it never stops being alluring but you get used to denying this allure just because of your sheer force of will. The more you deny yourself the stronger your willpower
Sort of nitpicky but obesity does affect you in aggregate because of increased burden on the healthcare system that is more or less subsidized by healthier folks. It’s never really better to have more people subjecting themselves to avoidable health problems than otherwise.
Maybe so but I am not of such mindset that everything I do is dictated by the wellbeing of the collective
If I want do drugs or drink booze I am going to do it. pay up
Truth to be said my taxes are set up in such a way that they are maybe 1/5 of usual, some pennies because officially I am a farmer for all legal intents and purposes
Apparently I grow some wheat or something, never seen it but hey
I wonder if squatting while lifting weights (gym) is also a speedrun to bad knees, or whether that actually does improvements
Squats should strengthen your knees. Proper form will prevent excessive sheering force and risk of injury should be low with gradual weight increase.
But here’s a common beginner injury and how to avoid it
A common injury (usually just a discomfort, rarely injury) new lifters sometimes experience is patellar instability. It happens when there’s an imbalance in the strength of the muscles holding the patella in position — the patella is the bone covering the front of the joint. Usually the instability resolves within a few sessions as the muscles strengthen, but to prevent discomfort or injury you can wear a knee strap or brace. (The strap is just a velcro band with a plastic/rubber tube on the front. The brace is a full-coverage support that isolates the movement.)
Knees don’t get used up. In fact, using them allows more use.
Absent severe injuries or joint-related diseases, a “bad knee” is only ever a temporary condition. There’s a common myth that knees can be used up, which is the opposite of how the knees (and most of your joints) work.
Continuous use actually makes knees stronger, better lubricated, more resistant to injury, etc. It even speeds up recovery from injuries and prevents formation of scar tissue. This is why physical therapists use the active recovery techniques that patients love so much ;)
ETA: TLDR
Yeah, if your knees are fucked up at 30, you’re probably an athlete and injured your knees multiple times, or obese and overloaded them with too much weight.
Also it’s hard to really fuck up your knees irrecoverably. They can bounce back from a lot. Consistent use makes them stronger.
There is an upper limit to the kind of weight they can sustain but (theoretically and with enough training to work up to it) that limit is pretty high. Even knees that have been abused long-term can often recover.
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.
If your knees are screwed up from “just turning 30”, then that indicates an expectation that you don’t need injuries to have bad knees.
Repetitive impact injury can screw things up, but the vast majority of people bemoaning their old age joints especially in their 30s are not exercising enough and/or are obese.
Whatever the case, bring it up to your doctor, didn’t assume changes like this are just normal/expected.
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.
37, Mechanic, lot of squatting and bending. No knee issues.
Moral: Use it, or lose it
I hit my knees so many times. 29, still functional.
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.
It gets worse. Take care of your body
If they’re in a kickboxing class it sounds like they are.
Ehhhhh
Damage from being kicked is far less damaging than damage from a sedentary lifestyle
maybe, if you get kicked in the head a couple times it’s potentially far worse, and in all cases it’s far greater than most other kinds of exercise. do kickboxing if you want to, I’m not trying to knock anyone’s interest, and life is too short to avoid things you love for fear of injury, but if it’s actually about health you wanna do low impact cardio and careful, controlled resistance training
