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I haven't quite hit thirty yet, but my friend has. She's taken up boxing, which might seem counterintuitive, but building up your strength is a great way to avoid having a weak core and knees. It also means she does regular stretching.

I cycle when I can, I have a 20mi loop on trails I can do, but fell way short of my goal for this year. I also am trying to restart regular yoga classes with my partner at our gym, where we also climb and lift weights. Hiking is good too, or even just walking our neighborhood. Eating healthy (we focus on protein and whole food/plant based, but not completely vegetarian), and I've been tryin to cut back on the whiskey and beer but it's just so good and shit is just so depressing in the world lately...

I transitioned to an ebike.

Gym most mornings before work

I recognize I’m over the hill and my joints sound like pop rocks

I had that start when I was a teenager, maybe even earlier. It sounds gross, but so far it hasn't done anything else.

CICO (it's not going well)

I started Shaolin Kung Fu at 45. 7 years later im getting my black sash and getting invited into the inner chamber.

Been in PT for the last 4 months due to my inability to remain 28 forever so I will let you know when I figure it out.

Never underestimate the value of walking a lot. Add weights, cycling, and yoga to add strength, stamina and resilience, respectively. Eat healthy but don't forget to live a little too.

I began working out heavily in my 20s because I was scared of being unable to in my 30s.

The key was discipline and training, your body remembers, and you age but you keep half.

I look at Arnie for inspiration, he was happy and still pumping iron in his 60s and 70s, proving it's all about a good mental attitude and consistency

Beside obvious recommendations from other posts (visit a doctor, do exercise, eat healthy, sleep well etc)...

The truth is - aging is a bitch! It starts probably even before birth and start clearly manifesting itself usually in 30s. So welcome!

And the "best" part is - currently we do not have a medicine to reverse it, so at some point at the age of around 80-90 it will most probably kill you unless something else kills you first, or unless we develop effective cure. I don't want to be morbid here or spread anxiety. I am writing this to accent the seriousness of aging and the need to tackle it. You can request your government to provide grants to researchers to reverse aging or if you are European propose researchers to apply for already existing grant call from EIC, propose your medical universities to participate in XPRIZE Healthspan, etc.

As you are quite young, if you are generally healthy, the best thing you can do really is doing the basics (as your mom told you) AND ESPECIALLY campaigning for development of aging-reversal therapies! Those are the only hope to be still kicking well in 80s in good health, and beyond.

If you are more interested, there is a community !longevity@mander.xyz and I also recommend the book Ageless by Andrew Steele, which provides great balance between scientific rigor and entertaining approach to public.

I got really out of shape for a while after having kids. Everything was hurting and I barely had time anymore to go to the gym, so I stopped working out. Getting out of shape exacerbated the aches and pains. Eventually I saw some photos of myself on a family vacation and realized how badly I'd let myself go. I started working out again. Took baby steps at first, like walking, body weight exercises, and high rep, low weight exercises. Over time, the aches and pains went away. Got back in a routine and slowly increased my goals. Now I'm in pretty damn good shape. I only do 2 days on and 2 days off for lifting so I don't hurt myself, and it works for me. I've been doing a solid routine for 2 -3 years and I'm feeling a lot better. It was so crazy to see how out of shape I'd gotten. I was an athlete in the past, so it was humbling to see myself struggling doing like 10 body weight squats. Staying in shape is definitely easier than getting back into shape. Don't do what I did. Stay active.

I started playing tennis 1-2 times a week and it’s been great. Also stretching in the morning works wonders

Walk, hike, calisthenics.

How do you even get back into it.. So hard

Hookers and blow.

My heart is the size of a basketball. I'm going to live forever.

Stretch, start slow, build up gradually. Stretch again. Stretch a third.

At the moment biking, but i wouldn't say that stops booboo. I've flipped over the bike twice, each time damaging a different wrist (first one was when bike was new and a part wasn't as tight as it needed to be, so handlebars gave way braking down a hill. Second time anyway overly friendly dog leapt at me. As I lay on the ground it came over and licked me).

I generally still heal kinda well nowadays though, so first wrist is back to normal and second is like 90%, only pain when specific weight and angles are involved.

I want to get back into bouldering too, but that can also give injuries.

Today I went for a bike ride. I regret it. Exercise is for chumps. Now, my eyes are dry and they sting. Also I might have asthma.

Stretching before exercises and good rests between activities and actually waiting to fully heal if I'm ever injured