This is the inevitable thread for ILxors in their forties

Reginald Perrin is a grandfather at 46, perfectly normal.

I'm getting that loback pain too..

lower back pain : do some 'planking'

i try and do about 60-90 seconds a day to keep my core muscles in action.

since i started, it has cleared up my reoccuring lower back spasms/muscle sprains.

Do I have to plank in a public place and post a photo on social media in order to derive lower back pain benefits, y/n

Hmm, worth a go

Next question, how I get go elsewhere of warts on finger 🖕

In the Signals household, "planking" is childhood patois for a meal of pancakes.

Is "planking" the thing where you get in push-up position but don't actually do any push-ups?

yes
it's very effective for building strength and you can do it anywhere!
http://www.yogawiz.com/images/yoga-poses/dolphin-plank-pose.jpg

Why not just do push-ups?

I think I "planked" once at a party. Someone was explaining it to me, and I did it, but I was also very drunk. From that experience, I believe that it is something you should not do while drunk.

pushups put the brunt of the work on you pecs and tris, planks (done correctly) are about core strength

thanks! I still don't know the difference between yoga and pilates, so clearly I am not up on my 20th century fitness activities.

^ er 21st century.

yoga is crazy ancient!

Seriously! It's been around since at least the mid-'90s!

planks are peaceful
pushups, less so

haha, i sorta found it the opposite, because with push-ups you at least were "doing something" as opposed to holding your body in one position for more time than is natural, which is something I don't have the patience for.

i like to listen to a song i like with a long intro and then trying to plank for as long as possible (i've only made it maybe 3 min max)
keeps me from overfocusing on how bored i am
preferably something slow, super loud, heavy enough to be distracting

OK, "Fascination Street" it is then.

i like to listen to a song i like with a long intro and then trying to plank for as long as possible (i've only made it maybe 3 min max)

humblebrag.

(i rarely can go beyond 90 secs these days)

for a while before my 40s i was running, and it turns out that it's just too hard on me (and i don't really like it that much apart from listening to music while i do it), so i had to switch up exercise routines to something more placid/indoors
i don't really pay much attention to the time -- once i estimated i was planking for 4 min and it was like 2.5, lol. i briefly tried to increase my time (hence my record) but stopped caring and went back to just planking for as long as possible...and then a little more. eventually the time increases but i try not to pay attention to that.

i do the same.
put on something loud, and try and stay distracted.
no outdoors crap/gear required, and so far has deterred my back issues.
that and my exercise bike (which i have just rediscovered after years of neglect), will have to suffice cos i refuse to leave the house to do any of this shit.

Holy shit I just tried planking and boy is it hard.

planks (done correctly) are about core strength

Certainly feels like it.
I work in an office where half the people are gym gym gym and the other half don't take any exercise whatsoever. I'd like to be the middle ground.

Although having said that I do walk 3 miles a day.

Holy shit I just tried planking and boy is it hard.

hence my reaction re the 3 min max.
looks and sounds easy, but ..
that said, a few days/weeks in and you can feel the difference in your lower back (my initial reason)

XP not even going for the cheap laughs when I tell you I had to read that twice

In my region, planking is method of cooking fish.

after you plank how much more are you supposed to plank after your attempt at planking gives way

i.e. how many 'reps'

I'm 40 on Sunday, and spending it with my partner in a quiet Suffolk hotel, hopefully reading a PG Wodehouse novel and having our energetic walking plans rained off.

That’s a good birthday.

My bf was complaining about how much his joints and muscles were always hurting and he does moderately physical labor for a living so I wasn't really listening, and then he started taking a basic multivitamin and now he's a new human being. So fwiw.

thanks! I still don't know the difference between yoga and pilates, so clearly I am not up on my 20th century fitness activities.

― sarahell

Pilates has more cool gear and less spirituality

We've all heard a lot of aging-related jokes about the Nirvana Nevermind baby, but for real, 2018 is the year that baby outlives Kurt Cobain

Just gotta get past April first.

Old metal dudes are the best. I kinda wish I was among them but I'm pretty damn borderline.

That’s a good birthday.

Whether or not it rains.

friend on FB (Carrol O'Connor was 44 years old and Jean Stapleton was 45 when All in the Family first came on TV) pic.twitter.com/pJnvAECzPs

— joe janecek (@joejanecek) January 26, 2018

maybe we're okay

holy shit

Those were the daaaaaays

they look like they live on cottage cheese and applesauce

Cottage cheeese- and apple blintz-fueled epidemic of chinlessness.

That's not quite true about the AiTF leads; O'Connor was 46 and Stapleton was 48. (They seem to be referring to the first pilot from a couple years earlier, which never got a regulkar broadcast). Still yeah, people generally looked older then.

James Gandolfini didn't turn 40 until 2001. In this pic, he's 39:

https://i.imgur.com/gM5XAY2.png

is it just me or are we aging better as a generation? i mean i know _I_ look good but it seems like most of my fortysomething friends look like they're in their thirties. these boomer/greatest gen guys in their forties look like they're in their fifties

i wouldn't say it extends to everyone in my generation but many people whose lifestyle permits seem to be holding up better than their elders (self included)
life can make a person look haggard in any number of ways; age is but one of them

having a kid pretty much destroys you is how i break it down to an extent

having a kid pretty much destroys you is how i break it down to an extent

ABSOLUTELY. Though I never say this out loud around people I know who have kids.

(active) dads and moms alike ime; pretty clearly the lack of sleep and massive stress that does it

^ This. Obv it's a generalization and not true of everyone but in general the ppl I know who look the youngest out of my peers are the ones who don't have kids.

also these days we're less likely to have been smoking for 30 years