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post 1685903753 07-05-2023, 01:05 PM
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Why Do Normies Say You Won't Be Able To Keep Up With Kids In Your 40's?

They say you won't be able to run and chit, like wtf, i can still beat my 16 YO brother in a 100m race and i dont even run
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37 years old here, wife and I are working on our first of 2 or 3 kids.

Everyone is full of sh*t coping about their worthless lives.

I'm fit as a fiddle, have plenty of neices and nephews that I "can keep up with"

The only thing they have on me is a lack of energy conservation. They'll go nuts until they're gassed while I just walk calmly around.

If I ever turn it up to 50% they know who the real power is around here.

I guess there are 2 things they have on me ... persistence.

They'll think something is funny and will do it 1,000 times if it keeps being funny. I get bored after 2 or 3 times. In which case I just say no more and then that's that
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I call BS too. It's not that you can't keep up, but you're probably not as playful of a person in your 40s regardless of what shape you're in. After you've had more than one kid you're not as motivated to go down the slide at the local playground for a 177th time pretending it's fun for you too.
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Originally Posted By Condo41⏩
37 years old here, wife and I are working on our first of 2 or 3 kids.

Everyone is full of sh*t coping about their worthless lives.

I'm fit as a fiddle, have plenty of neices and nephews that I "can keep up with"

The only thing they have on me is a lack of energy conservation. They'll go nuts until they're gassed while I just walk calmly around.

If I ever turn it up to 50% they know who the real power is around here.

I guess there are 2 things they have on me ... persistence.

They'll think something is funny and will do it 1,000 times if it keeps being funny. I get bored after 2 or 3 times. In which case I just say no more and then that's that
I mean your 100% right that its a cope, but keeping up with nieces and nephews proves nothing. You'll be fine but you haven't been tested yet. The hard part is raising multiple kids without getting fat.
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Originally Posted By ThaRoostah⏩
I mean your 100% right that its a cope, but keeping up with nieces and nephews proves nothing. You'll be fine but you haven't been tested yet. The hard part is raising multiple kids without getting fat.
Meal prep should keep you from getting fat. From there it's lifting 2 days a week with some cardio.
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Originally Posted By frankdtank20⏩
I call BS too. It's not that you can't keep up, but you're probably not as playful of a person in your 40s regardless of what shape you're in. After you've had more than one kid you're not as motivated to go down the slide at the local playground for a 177th time pretending it's fun for you too.
I'm 48 and my daughter is 2 this week.

For her birthday, we had a playground built (swings, slide, trampoline, see saw, roundabout, jungle gym, a horse on a spring that you ride and some other stuff, along with the safety flooring etc).

It was finished yesterday and half my time has been spent pushing her on the swings since then. Every time I try and get anything done, it's "dada swings" with a huge grin on her face.

I may have made a rod for my own back, but I'd rather that than worry about what is on the ground at the local playground.
Screw nature; my body will do what I DAMN WELL tell it to do!

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My son couldn't keep up with me in my 50's.
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Originally Posted By frankdtank20⏩
I call BS too. It's not that you can't keep up, but you're probably not as playful of a person in your 40s regardless of what shape you're in. After you've had more than one kid you're not as motivated to go down the slide at the local playground for a 177th time pretending it's fun for you too.
Absolutely brutal age pill
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Because it’s true. Ask richstrong.
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Oldest turns 17 next month, youngest is 4. As an aside, lol at me for giving a serious response to a thread created by a red but this is a subject I have experience with so here we are. With that out of the way, there are definite challenges associated with being an older parent. Sleepless nights with a baby are harder. Frank's right, too, you lose a lot of playfulness.

I'm in great shape. I lift and play basketball a couple times a week. My oldest is gearing up for fall cross country and I ran 8 miles with him on Monday. It was fun and I'm glad I'm in good enough condition to do that kind of stuff with him. I got to spend an hour plus with him, just the two of us, and that time is priceless. However, he turned around and did it again Tuesday (and will again today), while I needed extra time for recovery. When my 4-year-old is a teenager, I plan to be able to run with her. People leave a lot on the table with respect to body performance as they age, but there are real differences - sleep and recovery being big ones. Healing from injuries is another. Ankle sprains definitely don't heal as fast as they used to.
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They're fat and out of shape and assume you will be too.
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Originally Posted By DuracellBunny⏩
I'm 48 and my daughter is 2 this week.

For her birthday, we had a playground built (swings, slide, trampoline, see saw, roundabout, jungle gym, a horse on a spring that you ride and some other stuff, along with the safety flooring etc).

It was finished yesterday and half my time has been spent pushing her on the swings since then. Every time I try and get anything done, it's "dada swings" with a huge grin on her face.

I may have made a rod for my own back, but I'd rather that than worry about what is on the ground at the local playground.
what made you decide to have kids so late?
My ALT is elevated. 75.
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Originally Posted By FarmersSon⏩
Oldest turns 17 next month, youngest is 4. As an aside, lol at me for giving a serious response to a thread created by a red but this is a subject I have experience with so here we are. With that out of the way, there are definite challenges associated with being an older parent. Sleepless nights with a baby are harder. Frank's right, too, you lose a lot of playfulness.

I'm in great shape. I lift and play basketball a couple times a week. My oldest is gearing up for fall cross country and I ran 8 miles with him on Monday. It was fun and I'm glad I'm in good enough condition to do that kind of stuff with him. I got to spend an hour plus with him, just the two of us, and that time is priceless. However, he turned around and did it again Tuesday (and will again today), while I needed extra time for recovery. When my 4-year-old is a teenager, I plan to be able to run with her. People leave a lot on the table with respect to body performance as they age, but there are real differences - sleep and recovery being big ones. Healing from injuries is another. Ankle sprains definitely don't heal as fast as they used to.
how old are you
My ALT is elevated. 75.
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Originally Posted By Condo41⏩
37 years old here, wife and I are working on our first of 2 or 3 kids.

Everyone is full of sh*t coping about their worthless lives.

I'm fit as a fiddle, have plenty of neices and nephews that I "can keep up with"

The only thing they have on me is a lack of energy conservation. They'll go nuts until they're gassed while I just walk calmly around.

If I ever turn it up to 50% they know who the real power is around here.

I guess there are 2 things they have on me ... persistence.

They'll think something is funny and will do it 1,000 times if it keeps being funny. I get bored after 2 or 3 times. In which case I just say no more and then that's that
Starting late, bro. Is your wife way younger?

PS. I'm 43 and I still run laps around my 17 year old.

I don't think I really started outdoing my dad until he hit his 60's.
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Originally Posted By Zere0wn⏩
how old are you
I'm 42, so still pretty young depending on what you're comparing against.

First was born when I was 26 and my youngest was born when I was 39. I wouldn't say it was night and day between the two babies, but for me it was clearly easier physically as a young dad. I think it was even more true for my wife.
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Originally Posted By Zere0wn⏩
what made you decide to have kids so late?
Short answer is that I had other priorities. I was never bothered one way or another above having kids, but my wife wanted one, so we had one.

As soon as she was born, I went from indifferent to doting dad in a heartbeat.

There are pros and cons to the age thing. In my case, I reduced the hours I worked from 80 to 40 and my wife and I each WFH half of the week so that we are always there for her. We have the money and the patience that we didn't have as younger people, which lets us, in our particular case, be better parents that we would have been when younger.

Whether you have them in your 20s, 30s or 40s comes down to what your own personal pros and cons are
Screw nature; my body will do what I DAMN WELL tell it to do!

The only dangerous thing about an exercise is the person doing it.

They had the technology to rebuild me. They made me better, stronger, faster......
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Originally Posted By pondus_levo⏩
Starting late, bro. Is your wife way younger?

PS. I'm 43 and I still run laps around my 17 year old.

I don't think I really started outdoing my dad until he hit his 60's.
Last summer was the first time my son outdid me at anything physical. I'm still far stronger, and I think my ability to push myself physically is on another level from him. However, we did a sweet backpacking trip into the Frank Church Wilderness of No Return in central Idaho, and he could go up steeper stuff faster than me. Now, in my defense, my pack was heavier, but he'd been training for cross country all summer and I was just doing my normal basketball and lifting routine. On the steep inclines I was huffing and puffing and struggling to get enough oxygen and he was following behind carrying on about Minecraft and whatever other video game he was into at the time in a normal conversational tone. Normally, I would steer the discussion to something more interesting to me, but I couldn't talk so I just had to take it, lol.
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Originally Posted By DuracellBunny⏩
Short answer is that I had other priorities. I was never bothered one way or another above having kids, but my wife wanted one, so we had one.

As soon as she was born, I went from indifferent to doting dad in a heartbeat.

There are pros and cons to the age thing. In my case, I reduced the hours I worked from 80 to 40 and my wife and I each WFH half of the week so that we are always there for her. We have the money and the patience that we didn't have as younger people, which lets us, in our particular case, be better parents that we would have been when younger.

Whether you have them in your 20s, 30s or 40s comes down to what your own personal pros and cons are
how old is your wife? Sounds really rewarding.
My ALT is elevated. 75.
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Given how out of shape most people are it’s probably true
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Originally Posted By FarmersSon⏩
Last summer was the first time my son outdid me at anything physical. I'm still far stronger, and I think my ability to push myself physically is on another level from him. However, we did a sweet backpacking trip into the Frank Church Wilderness of No Return in central Idaho, and he could go up steeper stuff faster than me. Now, in my defense, my pack was heavier, but he'd been training for cross country all summer and I was just doing my normal basketball and lifting routine. On the steep inclines I was huffing and puffing and struggling to get enough oxygen and he was following behind carrying on about Minecraft and whatever other video game he was into at the time in a normal conversational tone. Normally, I would steer the discussion to something more interesting to me, but I couldn't talk so I just had to take it, lol.
Yeah, it's not really the physical toughness as much as the mental toughness.

It's not that my dad was strong than me or I am stronger than my son, it's just my dad could push himself way harder than I could, and now my son has to learn how to push himself.
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Originally Posted By Zere0wn⏩
how old is your wife? Sounds really rewarding.
A few months older than me. We've known each other since we were college freshmen, but we've worked all over the world, we both started our own companies etc

We had a kid later than most people (she gave birth at 46), but it was when we felt it would be the best for us in our partcular situation.
Screw nature; my body will do what I DAMN WELL tell it to do!

The only dangerous thing about an exercise is the person doing it.

They had the technology to rebuild me. They made me better, stronger, faster......
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Originally Posted By DuracellBunny⏩
A few months older than me. We've known each other since we were college freshmen, but we've worked all over the world, we both started our own companies etc

We had a kid later than most people (she gave birth at 46), but it was when we felt it would be the best for us in our partcular situation.
that's great. you don't hear women that age having children much, must take care of yourselves.
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Originally Posted By Silencespeaks⏩
Kids sound exhausting at any age. Literally 24/7 chores and responsibilities. They need constant attention and generate constant chores. I would not be able to keep up at any age.
Lazy Stacey strikes again.
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Originally Posted By Zere0wn⏩
that's great. you don't hear women that age having children much, must take care of yourselves.
It actually happens a lot more often than you think. In the UK, more children are currently being born to women over 40 than under 20.
Screw nature; my body will do what I DAMN WELL tell it to do!

The only dangerous thing about an exercise is the person doing it.

They had the technology to rebuild me. They made me better, stronger, faster......
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Originally Posted By DuracellBunny⏩
It actually happens a lot more often than you think. In the UK, more children are currently being born to women over 40 than under 20.
wow, i had no idea. im 37 and just got out of a relationship but want kids. i guess i have time.
My ALT is elevated. 75.
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glad to see brahs ITT agree its fat normie cope
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People severely underestimate how agile an old timer can be if they live an active lifestyle, srs. The meme of brittle bones isn't really true. My 70 year old dad can casually spring up the porch that's two feet high outside w/o using the steps. Meanwhile miscers feel a tiny bit weaker than they were in their youth and instantly want to give up. Joebidenshakinghead.gif

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