Drifting out of your prime..

[William Huggins]

49, I keep inflammation down in the body, don't have any problems with recovery.

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

I'm 46 and in my prime so what age are we talking here?

Shifting focus from the "me" to the "them".

Keep working out. It will keep you looking and feeling younger.

Buying a shiny red Porsche and dating younger women?

At least that's the usual cliche...
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I'm 47, I've been doing kickboxing or American football for 20 years, skateboarding before that.

I've done it by choosing less speed based contact sport as time passes moving from kickboxing to football, moving from speed to strength. Now I'm moving from football to Buhurt where I can use all of that but cardio is so much more important. Also the people that do it, a lot are nerds and it costs a lot so it's a smaller pool of participants making them proportionally easier opponents. They're also usually a bit older due to cost effect.

I will continue to find competitive arenas with my contemporaries, with more technical aspects and less quick fire aspects which allow for me to remain competitive.

I've been thinking about arm wrestling eventually so am including some movements in training.

Competition is key for me. I think getting stuck in a sport is a problem with coaching as the only way and I'm not a coach, I care about my own movement too much. I'm still in it.

Yeah we will die. Do our souls go somewhere ? I called my dad just now, actually my mom and told her to show me dad and he said a grand of like 5 words. Or 3. And that was it. He is 82. So yep we all die. I guess God loves us and we should love each other while we are here. Then we die and perhaps something cool happens. Like astral soul travel or so forth. Amen.

As for prime. I am 38 and think about it all the time. But we all do. Besides young people sub 33.

PRIME NEVER ENDS

 

[Oblivian]

In general, while you lose something, something else gets better or takes over. Hopefully when you are reaching that point athletically and with other hobbies like music, your professional life and financial life should be good. My life has pretty much been like this:

As a kid: Completely carefree, parents pay for everything, but less freedom under parents rules
College: Got freedom, lots of partying, but also now have stress of being broke and other responsibilities.
Young Adult: Coming into prime athletically and musically, but even more responsibilities
30's: Lots of advancing forward professionally and financially, but a lot of work and very busy with kids stuff.
40's: Definitely feeling getting older, but lost almost all financial stress due to doing well in business. Still incredibly busy though.
I'm assuming my 50's will be a lot more free time.

 

[syct23]

I could write a wall of text.. But let me start carefully with : how do did you deal with the feeling of moving away from your prime?

Be it training, making music, chasing women, or whatever.

I dont think this is a mid life crisis thread. But i am not sure. Haha

Welcome brother,

You’re not the only one..

Ride the roller coasters of life.

Makes more sense year by year, or at your age, week by week.

My advice,

Kick depression and anxiety in the mother fucking balls…ALWAYS!

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

I could write a wall of text.. But let me start carefully with : how do did you deal with the feeling of moving away from your prime?

Be it training, making music, chasing women, or whatever.

I dont think this is a mid life crisis thread. But i am not sure. Haha

Its the unescapable, inevitable nature of life, thanks.

 

[DaleBoca]

Better than drifting into oblivion, amirite?!?!

 

[Home_Slice]

Better than drifting into oblivion, amirite?!?!

That gif cracks me up.