I have another question for you all. I am 35. Still wear the same pants I wore back near the end of high school. Still look the same as I did a decade prior. Got a couple grey hairs in my chest fur… And that is it. Everyone told me I would be in pain in my thirties and wouldn’t want to do anything, but I have just much energy as I did when I was a kid. I don’t look or feel any different from when I was in my late twenties.
I go out with several buddies, some with kids, some without. Same deal. They haven't slowed down at all. We have discussed this a few times bar hopping. Brought it up to some old men in their fifties who... Honestly, I wouldn't have guessed they were in their fifties. Forties tops. Blew my mind, the way they drink and party.
My question is… Why is this an American myth? Feminists being resentful of men aging gracefully? The r select being angry at the k select? Endomorphs raging at ectomoporhs and mesomorphs walking through less affected by time? Everyone throughout my life has told me when you hit your thirties you will be in pain after waking up sleeping on the wrong side of the bed. You can't drink as much. Your dick won't be hard. Where does this shit come from?
I'm around the same age. I think I've still got a bunch left in me, but I'm also certainly starting to feel it. My job is physical, and some of my joints are getting a bit wonky. I'm still much more fit and strong than average (not that that's saying much), but things are starting to give me some trouble.
You can't keep going forever; that part's not a myth. But the idea that it's all over before you're even forty is also a myth. Stay active, stay healthy, and you'll still be fine for decades, as far as I can tell. But not as good as you were in your twenties. That's called your peak for a reason, and that's also not a myth.
I found that once I hit my 30s I had a lot more strength to go around, but far less gas to continually use it. More short explosive bursts, with more downtime to prevent that from pulling something after.