Post #465051
2026-02-20 20:31 UTC
Replies (21)
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@c_dan4th@mstdn.social 2026-02-20 20:33
@middleclasstool@phire.place Given that I mostly seem to fall during exercise, it may be too late.
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@CadeJohnson@toot.cat 2026-02-20 20:50
@middleclasstool@phire.place at 65, you start walking the tightrope between "if I do deep-knee bends, will my knees give out?" and "if I don't do deep knee bends, will I be able to get up when I fall down?" I have become a student of knee-popping sounds.
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@theraccoonbytes@theforkiverse.com 2026-02-20 20:56
@middleclasstool@phire.place lol, I want to be able to stay living in my home as much as possible and be able to climb the stairs
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@punissuer@universeodon.com 2026-02-20 20:57
@middleclasstool@phire.place also helps preventing diabetes and cardiovascular illnesses
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@grim_elsewhere@lgbtqia.space 2026-02-20 21:27
@middleclasstool@phire.place Gravity comes for us all eventually.
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@selje@mastodon.social 2026-02-20 21:46
@middleclasstool@phire.place I'm just resigned to developing the Old Guy Shuffle. re: Arte Johnson on Laugh-in... 🤔 🙄 😜 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8TvtVRKTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTgzaKyx_dg
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@HCBunny@beige.party 2026-02-20 22:40
@middleclasstool@phire.place Hi. Hey. (awkward wink)
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@Oldfartrant@mstdn.ca 2026-02-20 22:59
@middleclasstool@phire.place fall risk will get you a disabled parking permit.
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@pomegranate_stew@kind.social 2026-02-20 22:59
@middleclasstool@phire.place I’ve been working on lunges and squats. It was fine for months. Now I stand up sometimes and my left hip says “nope” and goes out like my knees sometimes do when I’m walking down the stairs. Why? 😭
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@Yuriel@kind.social 2026-02-20 23:34
@middleclasstool@phire.place "I want to be able to stretch without injuring myself" "I want to be able to do extreme sports like ' bending/kneeling to tie my shoes'" "I want to not wake up with my back seized up because I 'slept wrong'"
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@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 00:02
@middleclasstool@phire.place I quit my barre class cause I got sick of being told at 55 how I was supposed to look sexy in a bikini. I do Pilates now and nobody tries that shit there. Weird.
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@mildpeach@mstdn.social 2026-02-21 01:43
@middleclasstool@phire.place One thing young people never hear is that the warranty on your body runs out and expires. At some point we all experience the joy of arising in the morning to find out what body part hurts (or has failed!) today…
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@nixanadoo@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 01:44
@middleclasstool@phire.place for me it's to kill the treadmill faster and to make my dr shut up about exercise
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@nowayeast@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 02:45
@middleclasstool@phire.place you made it to 50 without being labeled a fall risk? I didn't even make it to 40.
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@deborahh@cosocial.ca 2026-02-21 03:49
@middleclasstool@phire.place @lydiaschoch@mastodon.social yep. Starting tai chi again this weekend!
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@mickJamezz@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 11:44
@middleclasstool@phire.place At 68 I've been strength training pretty consistently for over 40 years. I am also genetically lucky as I am in good shape. But now and then I'll move and say "ouch what the fuck".
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@MATAK79@stranger.social 2026-02-21 22:48
@middleclasstool@phire.place I have young kids so it’s like fuck I’m 47 and I have to keep up for the next 20 years !
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@woe2you@beige.party 2026-02-22 10:48
@middleclasstool@phire.place We need to get Billy West to read this in his Zapp voice.
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@MrInappropriate@mastodonapp.uk 2026-02-22 11:34
@middleclasstool@phire.place “For your age” and “ At your age” are bandied about by people all too frequently. Around me.
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@PatternChaser@mas.to 2026-02-22 11:40
@middleclasstool@phire.place 😂 👍
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@zendao42@universeodon.com 2026-02-25 03:34
@middleclasstool@phire.place "What a drag it is getting old..." Do you know about the rollerskate T-stop? It also keeps you from throwing out your back while sneezing