A question for the olduns on here.

[postman]

I’ve noticed my arms are getting shorter and my pockets are getting longer.

Them Yorkshire trousers are not exported it is written in the Magna Carta along with other notable references such as,a Yorkshireman is a Scotsman with all the generosity squeezed out of him",You can always tell a Yorkshireman,but you can't tell him much.

 

[fossyant]

Thought you were still working? If under pension age of 66, do not think you can call yourself old just yet.

Well thank you !

56, feel 156 sometimes !

 

[Dave7]

Ones ape index can decrease with age due decreasing shoulder mobility however also one’s spine compresses with age so you get shorter. So all in all it’s equal 🦧

I have definitely lost height which is a pain as I was a shortarse to start with.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

She then completed our humiliation by stretching down and putting the palms of her hands on the ground...

Time for me to start doing stretching exercises!

Probably hypermobility: I got that condition, can do what your friend does and more - I'm 63.
When I was much younger I used to tell my best friend that she was weird because she couldn't bend like I could.
Surely everyone can do this, I used to say.
She kept saying, no, you're the weird one.
Until, about 30 years later, I went to a physio with a yet another knee injury.
He said I was hypermobile and need to watch the way I move ... I apologized to my friend

 

[Profpointy]

OT - but £8.50 per pint at Lytham St.Annes golf course.

'kinell, 'ow much !

 

[colly]

I (aged 70) was discussing that subject with one of my sister's neighbours (aged 77) last month. Neither of us can stretch down to touch our toes; we can barely reach our shins!

Our conversation was overhead by another neighbour (late 70s) who declared that toe-touching was not a problem, and proved it to us. In fact, knuckles on the ground wasn't a problem either. She then completed our humiliation by stretching down and putting the palms of her hands on the ground...

Time for me to start doing stretching exercises!

My chiropractor, a few years ago, said in the gym you see older guys pushing weights and young girls/women doing yoga. He said the older guys should be doing the yoga and the girls/women pushing weights.

 

[Alex321]

At 67, I can still touch my toes.

Getting socks on can be hard work, but mainly because I find it difficult with some of my socks to pull them over the heel.

 

[Drago]

My chiropractor, a few years ago, said in the gym you see older guys pushing weights and young girls/women doing yoga. He said the older guys should be doing the yoga and the girls/women pushing weights.

He won't be saying that when he has to call for help to lift him off the crapper or when his bones are crumbling due to osteoporosis.

 

[derrick]

Our local swimming pool seems a lot longer than it was a few years ago.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

or when his bones are crumbling due to osteoporosis.

It's mostly us women in danger to get osteoporosis, because our bodies produce less estrogen as we get older.
Weight resistant exercise keeps bones healthy.
Men tend to become less flexible.
@colly's chiropractor was correct.

 

[Dave7]

Well thank you !

56, feel 156 sometimes !

Jeez, I have a daughter your age

It's mostly us women in danger to get osteoporosis, because our bodies produce less estrogen as we get older.
Weight resistant exercise keeps bones healthy.
Men tend to become less flexible.
@colly's chiropractor was correct.

My MiL suffered a lot with it, my wife less so but my daughter developed it relatively young.

 

[DCBassman]

2 minutes stretching hamstrings and the I can touch my toes.

If I exercise for longer than that I can get close to touching my toes.

After 2 minutes exercise, I still can't touch my toes, or even stand up again sometimes!

(73)

 

[Drago]

It's mostly us women in danger to get osteoporosis, because our bodies produce less estrogen as we get older.
Weight resistant exercise keeps bones healthy.
Men tend to become less flexible.
@colly's chiropractor was correct.

Having been called to a job to help lift an old boy off the great white telephone, Ill take maintaining some strength over being able to touch my toes.

And im already suffering bone density problems - not osteoporosis, different cause, but the means of warding off are the same, resistance exercise and calcium. I may be in touch with my feminine side, but I is deffo a bloke!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Well thank you !

56, feel 156 sometimes !

Defo too young to be blaming age. At 56, most things blamed on age, should be blamed on lifestyle. Lack of any strength work. Lack of balance work. Lack of bending and mobility work etc.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My hair gets further away from my scalp.

I still have a full head of hair - it is just that my forehead starts rigth at the back of my head!!