Your body literally starts changing overnight h:

I think I have patellar tendonitis, from jumping to grab shit off the top shelf in some of my stores and, pushing and pulling stuff. I feel like I'm falling apart and I'm only 26, I get heartburn, back aches, tension headaches...and I only imagine it gets worseh:

Any other guys 25-30 notice this stuff?

 

Yes, I'm 27 and for the past year or two I've been going down hill. Chest pains, back pain, etc. I've even dislocated my shoulder twice within the past year. I found that I can no longer throw or punch with my right arm (good arm) without dislocating it. And man is that shit painful, I have yet to experience anything worse than that.

And if I stretch my legs too hard, instant charlie horse. h: It sucks to wake up at 3 in the morning with that pain.

 

When I was 26 I was still playing like a little kid. I was just an overgrown child. I didn't start feeling the aches and pains of growing old until now....I'm 56 had a liver transplant two years ago and a quadruple bypass this May. I still don't hurt that much. Get out and play more, don't stress out on work. I was a kitchen and bath remodelor and had to meet budgets and deadlines, loved my work and it kept me fit. Never really considered it as a form of exercise, but when you go up and down stairs 54 times in a half a day (customer counted my trips) carrying at least 50# I guess it is. BTW I started that business when I was 41.

 

I think our Generation will have it pretty bad. Growing up on video games, and working in cubicals all day won't pay off in the long run. Not to mention all the Supersized Combo Meal's and larger meal portions in general.

 

27 ... I have grey hairs coming in. :a:

 

It's not a very good picture (it's at least 29 years old) but this is me when I was about 26-27 and commercial fishing, I'm the one without a shirt on, that's Mike with me, he and I fished together on several boats.

 

I have to give that to you, I've worked at jobs that were hard work. I humped wheelbarrows full of concrete for 12 hours a day on one job, (building Grain Elevators) working from 7PM til 7AM got to see the sunset and the sunrise. I've lumberjacked, commercial fished, lots of construction oriented work. I had a sign painting business and I've done sign installations for a sign making company. I had a Kitchen and Bath Remodeling business. I worked in the hotel industry for 20 years or so, first as a maintenance man and then as a Chief Engineer, Director of Maintenance & Engineering where I did budgeting and scheduling of all the work for the facilities that I worked at, but I would always walk the entire property every day and check in on my employees to see that they were doing their jobs and if they needed anything.
When I was remodeling it was nothing for me to carry a couple hundred pounds at a time, I didn't even think about how heavy anything was until I would see someone struggling to pick up something that I just set down. My son (soon to be 27) and I would carry, not bounce a 400# plus cast iron tub up stairs in clients houses, so as not to damage the stairs, and I would be at the bottom because I didn't want my son getting hurt.

 

Now that's labor! I did roofing when I was younger and that was hard work. Some jobs would require me carrying packs of shingles on my shoulder while trying to climb a ladder up 2 stories. I even worked for a major clutch/flywheel factory momentarily after graduating high school. I would work grind pressure plates, and lighten flywheels for corvette's all day long. My face would be black by the end of my shift. I just knew it wasn't for me.

 

roofing is like by far the worst job ever

 

you have to continue to be active on a regular basis or your body will just start slipping away from you. start hitting the gym. play some sports on a rec league or something and get yourself back from the brink.