# Anyone else hit a wall at 35? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287 "2006-11-13T19:29:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/1 "2006-11-13T19:29:15Z")
I was a very healthy kid you know. I was always out playing, fresh air, etc… Hated being inside. I ran track for three years in HS, the 400m, I wasn’t great, but not bad for a white boy. After HS I went to college part-time and worked as a tae kwon do instructor the whole time in college. I say all this to highlight that I wasn’t a physically inactive person. I was in good shape for the better part of my life. So what in the blue freakin’ blazes happned to me at age 35??? Since turning 35 (in Jan 05) I have developed freakin hemmorhoids, herniated a disc in my neck, developed acid reflux, got a bum knee, a fairly common sore back, and I swear not a freakin day goes by where something doesn’t twinge, tweak, or cramp! WTF?? I have a phyiscal every year (since 30) and in good shape still. So ruling out anything medical (and I have) what freakin gives? I hope I am not the only one here who has had a tough going since 35, just tell me it gets better, not worse!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/2 "2006-11-13T19:38:55Z")
[QUOTE=Dob] I have a phyiscal every year (since 30) and in good shape still. So ruling out anything medical (and I have) what freakin gives? [/QUOTE] Just a few short years ago you would be considered well past the average human life expectancy. [cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy) Quit yer bitchin’ ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/3 "2006-11-13T19:53:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Quit yer bitchin’ hahah, point taken! but wheres the fun without bitchin? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/4 "2006-11-13T20:18:39Z")
Well, Mr. Metabolism hit a brick wall when I was in my mid- late-30s, and I went from being a size 4 without even trying to (within ten years) a size 12 with a great deal of effort. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/5 "2006-11-13T20:23:57Z")
I turned 35 nine days ago. The only real change I’ve noticed in the last few years is that my back is a lot stiffer than it used to be; one night of sleeping in the wrong position will have me achy and tight for days. Also the hangovers are worse. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/6 "2006-11-13T20:35:17Z")
I’d always been a runner but at 36 my knees started giving me the finger. Not running’s then had a tumble down effect. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/7 "2006-11-13T21:07:21Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] . . . my knees started giving me the finger. . [/QUOTE] I’d really see a doctor about that. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/8 "2006-11-13T21:18:47Z")
Heh-heh. Wait’ll you hit 40. Heh-heh. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/9 "2006-11-13T21:24:13Z")
God I hope I haven’t hit a wall. I just turned 35 last month. I’m currently not very active, as I sit at a desk most of the day, but I am planning to buy some hockey skates this week and re-learn how to skate. If I can successfully do that, I plan to learn to play hockey and join a rec league. Side benefit - maybe I will lose some weight. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/10 "2006-11-13T21:50:38Z")
(I will be turning 37 in February) Things I’ve noticed when turning 35: -Lifting weights has it’s limits. I’ve had the same weight amounts since April. Everytime I push it to the next level (adding 5-10 lbs) I end up with injuries. -I still eat spicy foods (hot wings, jerk chicken, etc.) but I pay the price for it later with bad heartburn. -I still like roller coasters and thrill rides but I now have to avoid anything that spins. Instant nauseu. -The walk from the bed to the shower in the morning is an achy hunched over walk. -I purposefully avoid drinking to excess since the hangovers just ain’t worth it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/11 "2006-11-13T21:56:31Z")
I turned 35 this year, and I’m actually feeling better than I have in ages. I’ve always been a very uncoordinated and sedentary person. I started working out in August, and since then I’ve lost 22 pounds, I breathe easier, I ache less, and I’m bendable in ways I haven’t been in a decade. Clearly, you went about the whole thing all wrong, **Dob**. You should have sat on your ass for the first 35 years! You’ve used up all your best stuff! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/12 "2006-11-13T22:03:34Z")
I realized that I had hit a wall (or milestone of sorts) at around age 35 when my parents, brother and I went for a hike in the mountains that turned out to be a fair bit longer and tougher than we expected. In previous years, if I overdid it on some physical activity, I would be a little sore the next day, but bounce back just fine. That time, however, I my body hurt – badly – and I could barely move without groaning for three days afterward, just like my folks. My younger brother, on the other hand, hardly felt a thing. That’s when I realized I was officially getting old: I paid for it afterward! Nowadays, my dad and I share stories about bad knees and pinched nerves. Fun times. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/13 "2006-11-13T22:13:11Z")
I feel your pain. Except now I’m almost 45. I had to quit playing soccer because every time some muscle would get pulled. I put it down to all of those years of intense exercise. Now I roller blade occasionally, sometimes ride my bike, or work up a sweat by kicking a ball at my kids or throwing a baseball at them. I should probably work out or something, but who needs that kind of agony? ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/14 "2006-11-13T22:31:31Z")
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain] Heh-heh. Wait’ll you hit 40. Heh-heh. [/QUOTE] Exactly. Nothing at all happened at 35 but at 40…jeez! Eyes went, wrinkles started appearing and what the hell happened to my ass?? Scary stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/15 "2006-11-13T22:55:36Z")
I slammed into that wall head-on at 35! It didn’t help that I got pregnant that year. Everything fell apart after that. Some of it could be fixed with meds or surgery, but hell, it takes\*\* that \*\* to get back to the way I was? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/16 "2006-11-13T23:13:31Z")
[QUOTE=Dob] Since turning 35 (in Jan 05) I have developed freakin hemmorhoids, herniated a disc in my neck, developed acid reflux, got a bum knee, a fairly common sore back, and I swear not a freakin day goes by where something doesn’t twinge, tweak, or cramp! WTF?? [/QUOTE] My back started going out more than the rest of me when I was 20. Slipping on ice will do that. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/17 "2006-11-14T01:33:08Z")
I had really bad asthma, and was a sickly child with a constant cough and constant shortage of breath. In allergy season I would lose weight from being to sick to eat, then coughing so hard I would throw up. Now at 35 I can run 2 MILES ( it only makes me throw up occasionally) I can play Dance Dance Revolution! Really badly! But I cn play it for hours. I usually walk between 5 and 20 miles every day at work. I still have to deal with my stunning lack of coordination and depth perception, but except for a tendency to tight hamstrings, I feel better then I did at 25. WAY better then at 15. My weight is the same as it was was I was 20, but my body fat percentage is lower. However, I have to admit my standards are pretty low. If I can breathe, I figure I must feel pretty damn good. This has resulted in some judgement errors, like the time I showed up for work with broken foot bones, because I figured if wasn’t wheezing, so it wasn’t really that serious. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/18 "2006-11-14T01:55:12Z")
\*\* Anyone else hit a wall at 35?\*\* A wall? Is that what that was? Not that I was the healthiest of kiddies but yeah, everything went downhill around there and then even downhillier at 40. At 50 there probably won’t be any hill, just a sharp drop over a cliff. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/19 "2006-11-14T02:25:27Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Anyone else hit a wall at 35? > > A wall? Is that what that was? > > Not that I was the healthiest of kiddies but yeah, everything went downhill around there and then even downhillier at 40. At 50 there probably won’t be any hill, just a sharp drop over a cliff. Oh yeah, that’s exactly how it has been going, and 50 keeps creeping closer. When will I feel like a grown up, though? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287/20 "2006-11-14T05:36:59Z")
I’m fat, out of shape and lazy at 40. And I out-ski kids a third of my age. On my 40th birthday, I did 25 runs down the Gunbarrel at Heavenly. Coulda done a couple more, but didn’t wanna “over-do” it. 😛 Despite 35 years of constant abuse, my knees are awsome. Thighs are as solid as rock. Gotta be to haul around my huge beer-gut. No hair loss, little grey. Great eyesight. No hangovers. Its all thanks to the homebrew. 😉 I always say, “Never trust an adult male who doesn’t drink beer”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-hit-a-wall-at-35/380287.md?page=2)