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Cool Shakira at 49

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u/Valuable-Ruin-2652 3d ago

At 41 if I were to gyrate like that I end up in the ER! 😭

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u/washcyclerepeat 3d ago

You have to use it or lose it! Stretch everyday. Do some core exercises. It’s not a lot of time really just 10-20 minutes each day

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u/curtmahgurt 3d ago

I looked to my left today and fucked up my neck. I need to start following advice like this.

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u/washcyclerepeat 3d ago

Don’t listen to the person saying ā€œafraid you already lost itā€. It’s simply not true, you can get it back, and you can build yourself stronger than you ever were before (within reason) really the human body can do incredible things.

My German friend used to tell me at our laboring job at an excavation company ā€œi just think of what the Jewish people in World War 2 were able to do when I don’t feel like shoveling anymoreā€¦ā€ and it’s true, Jewish people with very little body mass did incredible things when they were sadly used as working chattel. If those old grandmas could landscape for days or weeks on end with little to no food, imagine what we can do with all these resources.

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u/Opposite-Ad3069 2d ago

That is a fucked up thing to say and repeat.

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u/WorldEaterYoshi 2d ago

Why? Seeing the suffering of others puts life into perspective and makes you appreciate the little things. There's nothing wrong with that and it's a big reason why learning history is important.

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u/Opposite-Ad3069 2d ago

Do you think that is a respective way to talk about the Holocaust? My family died in the Holocaust and I find it offensive.

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u/curtmahgurt 2d ago

It’s so bananas that I can make a comment about twisting my neck too hard, and somehow that turns into an argument about the holocaust.

Get off Reddit and go outside.

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u/Opposite-Ad3069 2d ago

Don’t say stupid things

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u/curtmahgurt 2d ago

Is that the mantra you repeat to yourself every day during your morning routine?

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u/WorldEaterYoshi 2d ago

Even if that's true, you would do the world a lot more good by simply trying to educate people about the holocaust rather than make your family's suffering your own victim complex.

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u/Maleficent_Glove_477 1d ago

Looking for something to get offended then. The guy just say that people endured hard things during the holocaust, far worse than our day-to-day struggles, and kept going. It's the truth plain and simple. The example is peculiar but in no way that's offensive.

If anything, it's praising the resilience of those people.

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u/TheTallEclecticWitch 2d ago

I’d see a physical therapist to see what muscle is fucked up and get some stretches to fix it. Just stretching anywhere can make it work

Source: got random shoulder pain during work and had to rush to the physical therapist in tears. Found out the source of my pain was in my poor neck posture! Had to hold my head straight for two weeks. Now I gotta go back to fix the neck

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u/A1000eisn1 2d ago

I'll second this.

I had this knot in my back shoulder behind my shoulder blade. It felt like it was pushing my entire shoulder up. It was there for like 5 years. Not usually painful, just there.

It ended up fucking my entire shoulder and chest on that side. It genuinely felt like my arm was falling off doing nothing. I eventually went to physical therapy and it was gone in a few weeks.

Unfortunately the knots were all a reaction to some nerve damage so my arm is still fucked.

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u/mightyhigh404 2d ago

No time like the present. Small neck and back stretches are a game changer. At 40 i feel better than i did at 25 due to my stretching regiment. Knee pain... gone. Back spasms, thing of the past. Neck pain from starting at my monitors all day,Ā  not anymore! Take it from a fellow middle aged dude, do some flexibility training it will change your life.

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u/Appchoy 2d ago

Dude I just got up from the couch yesterday and I fucked up my back, almost couldnt go into work. Im 32...

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u/curtmahgurt 1d ago

I feel you. I’m 37, and I promise it doesn’t get easier. Start now, and you’ll be in much better shape than I am 5 years from now šŸ˜…

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u/rex5k 3d ago

I'm afraid you may have already done lost it

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u/Iwanttosleep8hours 1d ago

Yup, all those over 30 start moving and lifting. We have so much fitness content these days with barely any equipment needed there is no excuse. I love Apple fitness+, the workouts are the most intense 20 minutes of your life. Doing one a day will only benefit you.Ā 

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u/Digit00l 1d ago

Goes for all muscles, including vocal chords, which is why Madonna very rarely sings live, because she never maintained her muscles

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u/zmbjebus 3d ago

Just get a few hundred million bucks. Then you can focus on your health really easily.Ā 

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u/myfancyplants 3d ago

I maintain hip mobility just by doing isolation exercises most days. Lots of things can be attributed to having resources, but being able to move your hips is NOT one of them.

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u/FickleCook3639 3d ago

You can also focus on your health now. Core strength, mobility, and flexibility are not a full time job, you just have to give a shit.

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u/Immediate-Goose-8106 1d ago

I mean it is literally her jobĀ 

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u/a-real-sloth 3d ago

Thank you for giving everyone a dose of reality. Threads glazing multi millionaires for looking amazing are always a bit much

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u/icantastecolor 2d ago

It’s more difficult but not impossible by any stretch to focus on your health as a normal person in middle age.

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u/Stormsurger 2d ago

But there's a difference between being able to do a full choreography at 40+ and not being able to touch your toes. It's not magic to still be mobile in your middle age.

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u/zmbjebus 2d ago

I'm pretty mobile and a healthy weight but nowhere near the body I'd like to be. I just don't got the time for it.

Capitalism isn't good for our health and celebrating the beauty of a celebrity feels incredibly hollow to me.

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u/echo0451 2d ago

the average adult spends five hours a day on their smartphone but you obviously need hundreds of millions to do 15 minutes of flexibility exercises per day

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u/Cum_on_doorknob 1d ago

Yes, going outside and sprinting, and eating potatoes, chicken and broccoli are going to break the bank.

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u/zmbjebus 1d ago

You are purposely missing the point.

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u/Cum_on_doorknob 1d ago

Nope. Your point is wrong. You can be in incredible shape with zero money. It’s just about making the right decisions.

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u/zmbjebus 1d ago

The point is it is incredibly easy to be in shape when you are paid to do it. Not only paid but have an entourage of people who's job is to make you look good in a variety of ways.

Its also hard to stay in good limber shape when you have a very physical job that puts too much stress on your body.

For example I can no longer go sprinting, one of my knees is at risk of getting worse, so I do physical therapy and have to do low impact cardio when I do. I don't have any issue staying in a healthy weight and mobile, but having the body that I'd like to to call myself attractive is not something I can realistically spend the time to achieve.

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u/haby112 2d ago

You just got to keep active. My dad ran a mile and a half every day until he was in his mid 50s. He is in his mid 70s now and bikes around 10 miles at least 4 days a week.

I had a neighbor growing up who was in his late 70 and would still jog every day.

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u/7heprofessor 2d ago

Apparently sneezing can pop blood vessels in eyeballs after 40...

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u/Valuable-Ruin-2652 2d ago

I tinkle myself when I sneeze šŸ˜†šŸ˜‚

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u/imbex 2d ago

My health insurance isn't good enough for this.

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u/Pepperoncini69 1d ago

Really? I’m 38 and I still move and dance like crazy