I'm 27 and I've tried several times and failed them gained back all the weight. Has anyone here accomplished it?
Is it impossible to get fit past age 25?
I'm 27 and I've tried several times and failed them gained back all the weight. Has anyone here accomplished it?
Sucks to suck I guess, I started at 28 and look the best I have in my entire life, try sticking to something for once in your life
Same, except in 34 and just started going to the fitness center at the start of the year.
Went from 175 to 165, and visibly more muscular.
Now I spend ~6 hours at the fitness center a week and another ~3 hours boxing.
Same here, knowing 30 is around the corner activated me. Down to 15% body fat still motivated and working hard. Started putting more effort into way I dress, skin care, and reading more. In one year I completely changed my life.
>34
>got sober
>got out of a toxic relationship
>got out of a career I hated
>moved home with mommy to go to school fulltime to study chemistry
>in the best shape of my life
>cultivating a relationship with god
I am literally making it bros
first post best post
Imagine going around publicly acknowledging that you are a brainlet, don't know how to eat/train and that you are a homosexual
I started lifting / exercising again at 28 and I'm 30 now and am in the best shape of my life, you're just weak willed
How am I supposed to have motivation to keep eating healthy? I have no gf and no friends, and a dead end job. Food is my only cope, I will be healthy for like 1 months then get depressed and binge eat again. I'm 6'0 230lbs right now.
Because goyslop is disgusting, and cooking is fun.
>cooking is fun
This. I just put 2 kg of diced marinated beef in the oven and I'm now braising it in the marinade which I made from coke and onions sauce.
That sounds fricking gross dude. Learn to actually cook.
I can. The marinade is what I usually use for beef jerky but I decided to braise it instead this time.
Try braising gammon in coke or pineapple juice or something some time. It is good.
That does look yummy. Nice emulsion on the sauce; broken sauce is my trigger.
Well you could try and motivate yourself because you know it's a better alternative than just b***hing about how bad your life is on IST, or you can continue down the path you're on until your painful death, the choice is yours
Replacing just a few ingredients in slop will make it healthy and delicious. Take pasta for instance - if you use wholemeal spaghetti, it becomes a nutritious meal. Get some mincemeat and make bolognese sauce. Initially, all the work required to cook and clean will seem unbearable, but after some time, you won't be able to stand the taste of takeaway and you'll be forced to cook unless you want to starve.
Motivation is bullshit. Shame and disgust are your friends. You already know that you are fricking up and destroying your body. That's why you're here. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself, use that feeling to fuel your decision to be better.
>Motivation is bullshit. Shame and disgust are your friends
Based and loathpilled. Nobody ever got shredded because they were "motivated".
It's about hating your current self but loving the one you could be.
There is something akin to motivation, but it's so far removed from what normies characterize as motivation that it might as well be its own thing entirely.
It's like the positive, active version of "it is what it is". You do X because that's what you do. You're in a certain path so you tread it because that's your only option. You cannot stay still. Yes, in theory you -could- stay still and let yourself be engulfed by the darkness, but it's impossible for (you) because you're "the one who treads the path and won't stop".
Self-duty might be a better for it? I don't know.
>How am I supposed to have motivation to keep eating healthy? I have no gf and no friends,
It sounds stupid, but get a gf, then a family. Realizing I was on track to not live long enough to see potential grandchildren was what motivated me to lose weight. And it's not enough to just live long enough to see them either; I want to set a good example for my children. Yesterday I did a 7.5 mile run and my 8 year old son rode his bike along side me. When we got home he helped me cook dinner. When you have something to live for, it gives you the motivation to stay alive longer.
How do I get a gf? I haven't had one since I was 13, I'm 27 now.
I'll give you the advice a friend of mine gave me back in college when I met the woman who I'd later go on to marry.
>Normally I'd say 'just be yourself,' but in your case, don't be yourself, be good.
“Motivation” Is bs you need hard rules and systems to be successful. Something like “every other day I do 100 pull ups” and “I always cook dinner”. Eventually they will become part of your life and you will feel bad when you don’t stick to them.
maybe you should make some friends and look for new career prospects. good eating and exercise will give you the energy and discipline to do that.
You don’t
Well, I suppose with that defeatist attitude you could just eat yourself to death The Whale style.
>I have no gf and no friends, and a dead end job
There's your motivation gay
Find Jesus and be a part of something bigger than yourself
Binge eat grapes.
Find a way to make lifting and eating healthy your only cope. Many guys in that exact same spot, myself included.
Do it for yourself homie, stop being a b***h
You won't have motivation to do anything if you keep cheating your dopamine system by telling it you've achieved your life goal everyday when you jerk off to porn
now you have to do it after making me read your bullshit drivel. this can be the low point of your life
>food is my only cope
good food is healthy
eating goyslop fastfood is not enjoyable
Healthy good tastes bad for me though. McDonald's tates way better, my go to order is medium fries, coke zero, mcdoubles, McChicken, and 2 chocolate chip cookies. It tastes so fricking good, no healthy food can compete.
total aryan victory or death
Sounds like some pussy ass reddit shit.
god bless u anons wagmi
You can get good at pretty much anything at any point in life. You just need to swallow your pride, accept that you'll be shit for an extended period, take feedback without getting assblasted, and be consistent until you are good.
Your pic is right. I'm in my 32. I've squandered my 20s playing video games and stuffing my face with fast foods. I'm single, I have no friends, and I'm a factory worker. I'm doomed to carry on like this till I either naturally die or cave in and off myself with my shotgun. Frick it, I dont care anymore. Society as it is now has little to offer me. My neighbors hate me, my parents hate me, my president hates me, my mayor hates me. I'm going to enjoy life as it's meant to be: short and sweet.
Be sure to kill as many leftists as possible on your way to the afterlife.
>no friends
How?
Just don't talk to anyone. That simple
youd be surprised how little time it takes to turn your life around completely, regardless of your starting age
You sound worthy of hate and disdain
Just get on the sauce and hit the weights heavy. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.
How the frick does your mayor even know you exist
Kek. He’s a REAL NUISANCE. A complete knucklehead.
I called him the n-word lover at a town hall. I was having a bad day.
>Like a brick house that constantly needs building
Time to get building then
But also its just some fricking redditors opinion, they're already hanging around the purple pill
OP, its hard to say what your issue is with the information provided. It sounds like you're happy to just give up. You know why you've failed, address it.
You're unlikely to be mega successful but all of us are.
>Work
You have any money stashed away? Any courses you can take? You been consistent at work? Can you apply for manager or something?
>Social
You're here, you presumably go to gym, you have any social relationships there at all? You have any irl clubs you can join? Chess, Martial Arts (even if they're the type IST looks down on) any group fitness classes you can join?
>Single
Get on apps or learn to make a move, working on the other two can help
Not him but OP. For work I'm studying accounting in university, going into my 1st year next month.
For social, I have no friends since graduating highschool, I only talk to family members and cousins. I'm not in any clubs. I have social anxiety.
For single, I'm a KHHV. I went to an all boys Christian school and don't know how to talk to women since I missed out in my key developmental years. My type is nerdy girls like pic related though, I don't like hyper social thots. How do I fix this and meet a nerdy gf?
I was in the best shape of my life at 32.
My best friend was a virgin at 30, he stopped trying and just started living his best life. Ended up in a D&D group with some people in open relationships, found out he had a massive hog between his legs and started cucking married men. 3 years later now he's married with a baby.
Bad example this guy has a hog. Most people have no major redeeming quality that would get them laid here. An incel is a man that behaves like a women in terms of persuing sex but doesn’t have any redeeming qualities that would cause someone to approach them for it, or they wouldn’t be incels.
At 30 I was 250lbs (I'm 6'1", for reference). By 34 I got down to 180 and have been there for two years. It's possible to lose weight, but it takes discipline and permanent lifestyle changes. I run 6 days a week now, and lift 4-5. I don't eat goyslop and do all the cooking for myself and my family. I have very few snacks and autistically count calories. That said, by turning all of these activities into habits and keeping the weight off for two years, I'm confident I can continue this for decades.
June 2022 at 35 yo to May 2023 at 36 yo to June 2023 (trying to bulk back up now). Yes its possible. 27 is still young as frick. Don't be a b***h.
That's insane progress. Did you cheat with TRT?
Lol no I didnt cheat with TRT. I dont even know what my test levels are.
Just aim for 1,000 cal/day deficit and get enough protein (1g per lb lean body mass). Started with calisthenics and rowing, added in kettlebells/dumbbells over time. All home gym shit, don't have much really. Do something every day though, even if its not much, just do something. Its better than nothing.
Routine and diet please?
Same as this guy, pic is me after 2 years of solid training coming from a sedentary 27yeat old, so 29 in pic. Just stop being a bich.
Very inspiring thank you anons I was feeling depressed today and now I have hope.
Hope and motivation are worthless.
Now that you know it’s possible, the only thing that matters is showing up to the gym on schedule. Motivation will never do that for you. It has to be an automatic routine.
everyone loves a good comeback story. everyone. and it is possible. (zyzz, anyone?) pic related is just projecting his doomer logic onto everyone else. its pathetic. aka "i couldn't do it therefore you can't either huhuh" .. okay buddy moron
What's your fasting insulin? CAC score?
If you can determine these, you might discover why your metabolism is failing you.
What utter horseshit. No wonder its from reddit.
Its never too late to change things for the better.
You don't even need to lift at the gym or any fancy equipment to get in shape and lose weight and stay fit, just a shitton of burpees will do it, only thing you have to is do it.
Do the work and stop bullshitting and demoralizing yourself and your peers.
t. ex-fat neet who decided to change for the better at 33
started 8 months ago at age 32
stop using your age as an excuse
Sucks to be you. I started lifting at age 26. Been getting better ever since. Now I'm 38 and in the best shape of my life. Strongest I've ever been, most aesthetic I've ever been. Feel good. Look good. All natty baby. And my career keeps advancing. Life is fricking good man.
Do you have a wife and kids?
No, and I don't want them either. I was part of the dating scene all in my 20s and my early 30s. Mostly just found having a gf to be an expensive nuisance. Always nagging to spend all my time with them. I'm happy using tinder to frick 20 year olds with daddy issues and kicking them to the curb.
You sound like an butthole and I hope your tinder dates soon dry up.
Make no mistake about it: I am an butthole. I don't beat women or anything like that. I just don't respect them. If my tinder dates dry up I'll just frick some hookers idgaf.
For example my friend told me just last week that flights to Norway are dirt cheap right now. Looked at them and realized they are. Now I'm flying out to Norway next week. I couldn't do that with a wife and kids. And even if I could somehow do that, I'd go bankrupt with how frequently I do this. Last summer I flew out to Japan, Italy and the Cayman islands all with at most three weeks advance notice. Friend hits me up inviting him to his shotgun wedding in the Cayman islands. 5 days later I'm there. Not even including all the trips I book on a whim here in the USA. When you only support yourself you don't need much living space. You don't provide financial support for others. You don't need to structure your entire days around them. As a result you find yourself with a ridiculous amount of disposable income. Even blowing as much as I do on traveling I'm still able to invest enough with my financial advisor to support my eventual retirement. You honestly don't even need to be rich or have a six figure job for this. I understand this lifestyle isn't for everyone but I am genuinely happy with my choices.
You could still do that if married. Many married men go on business trips and shit.
Business trips aren't the same as vacations anon. You try finding a wife and telling her you're going on half a dozen vacations in the summer and not bringing her lmao. This was actually one of the big points of conflict with my last gf that made me decide I was finished with long term dating. Told her if she wanted to go, she can pay for her own ticket. I was already paying for the hotel so if she wanted to share my bed and my room that would be fine, but she shouldn't expect me to blow thousands on her meals and shopping. You can imagine the blowback.
You should find a submissive wife then. You need to have kids m8, every religion even atheism/evolution says the purpose of life is to reproduce and pass on your genes.
You're not the first to tell me this. Juice ain't worth the squeeze if you catch my drift. There will be resentment on her end, endless drama will ensure and that's probably the kind of b***h to stab me in my sleep. Even the ultra submissive women try to fix their men and mold him into who she wants him to be.
Your problem is that you go for stacies. Go for a shy nerdy doctor type and she'll be submissive to you.
where does one find a nerdy girl?
hinge, unironically
University is full of them. You just need to approach them and sit next to them in class, befriend them, ask them to study in the library after a few classes. You'll probably be the first guy who's ever talked to them.
>semen demon is showing you her soles
yes. When lockdowns hit I lost everything. I sank into a pit of misery and substance abuse and depression, and stopped exercising for 2 years after having been a devoted bodybuilder all my life. When I came back into the gym a little over a year ago, I couldn't even bench one plate and had to literally start my entire fitness journey over. I was 33 then and I am 34 now, and I am in the literal best shape of my life. I have never looked this good before, or been this strong or flexible or skilled. Starting over was a blessing in disguise and it made me completely relearn everything I had ever done wrong, focus on all the things I used to avoid, and do completely different kinds of workouts like calisthenics. You can 100% do it.
P.S. I did it stone cold natural
FYI when I came back to the gym, I had almost no muscle mass and was the fattest and heaviest I had ever been in my life. I was 185lbs and probably 20-25% bf, and if you had passed me on the street when I was in this shape, you would not believe I had ever set foot in a gym. Now as a 34yo, I have completely blown away my past PRs from when I was in my "prime"--- 365 squat fully ass to grass with perfect form, closing in on 300lb bench, I can do middle splits, almost have my front splits, I do handstands, handstand pushups, planches, muscle ups, etc etc. Don't believe what this board tells you about aging, they would have you believe that you should be sent behind the shed and euthanized after the age of 25
U sex butts? Men? Good morning sir
Nice man you mog most 20 year olds. What's your routine?
Thanks breh, it's 100% calisthenics with barbell squats to keep up leg strength. Handstand work + planche work + gymnastics rings holds and then two days of weighted mobility per week. Can't emphasize enough that going hard with mobility will completely change your lifts, resilience against injury and pain, and sense of wellbeing
Stack?
Preworkout + creatine + religiously hitting protein macros. Preworkout is nutricost which is very under the radar the best and most affordable in a sea of wildly overpriced preworkouts that simply have really good marketing on social media. Creatine monohydrate is either from nutricost or bulksupps. Beyond that I just make sure to get at least 150g of protein per day and I eat relatively intuitively depending on how I feel. I think what made the most difference was calisthenics itself. It made me lose a lot of fat and has really ramped up my metabolism
Based. 34 years boomer here too, can’t wait to start school in the fall and run through zoomer girls. Just got out of a three year relationship so I’ve traded her in for a newer model
Thanks mang, 34yo boomers represent. Gotta sow seeds of hope around here and show that even the elderly can mog. You look a bit taller than me but it looks like we have been hitting similar wins in our composition and physique. Have fun in school
Being lean is absolutely everything. WAGMI bro
If any girls ask your age just lie and say your 25 or something. College girls like guys who are older just not too old.
I still have my hair and look to be about 30. 25 would be a stretch.
If you don't have a beard and have a full head of hair it's hard to tell age. I knew a 37 year old guy on forums that frauded 25 to get girls.
What a loser
I am richer, stronger and fitter than I have ever been in my entire life at 26 years of age
No. It's just that it's nearly impossible to build a meaningful amount of muscle in the absence of testosterone, and most people have lower testosterone as they age. I'm 35, and I returned earnestly to the gym last year. I was fit as frick 10 years ago but got lazy and complacent and weak for a variety of bad excuses. Anyway, I'm 6'2 and lost from 220 to 190, but when I returned to the gym I was struggling to bench 175. Now it's a year later and I'm going 245 for 5-7 reps. Similar results with other exercises, I'm right back to where I used to be and back to looking lean and muscular.
Incidentally, for something totally unrelated I had bloodwork back in the winter which showed my test levels at 720 ng/dl. I have a friend who is 2 years younger than me who was recently tested and came back at 450. My dad is 70 and his is still holding out above 500. You can get IST past age 25, 35, 45 whatever as long as you have the testosterone and the will to do it.
>I got a life changingly good career at 34
>lost a bunch of fat and started lifting at 34
>started dating girls out of my league and younger than me at 34
>divorced my wife at 33
Just recognize what's holding you back and actually put in the effort to change.
I'm 29 and was inconsistent for years, but now I'm making the best progress I've made since I was 21
I'm taking my 64 year old grandfather to the gym with me and even he's making nice gains both in visible mass as well as in strength. Also his joints and flexibility improved.
As long as you can stand on your two feet it's not too late. Stop making excuses for being a lazy b***h.
Demoralizing bullshit. I’m 33 and life has never been better
People who think like this wildly overestimate how much their "successful" peers are trying to win at this fake game of life. If you are serious about wanting to be healthy, successful, educated, social, etc. you are already doing better than like 90% of people. The cohort of people in this world who care about becoming jacked or a millionaire or whatever is vanishingly small. Most people are mediocre and just want to live comfortably.
this is just the old “can people change” question, i feel like the only thing that really suffers with age is recovery time, and average people aren’t working out hard enough to hit the recovery wall
I’m not exactly a fan of HIT training, but I’ve taken the low frequency pill and it works pretty well for me. Why hit each body part 3x a week if you can hit it 2x a week, make basically the same gains, and feel fresh most of the time?
Yes its impossible now leave this board and never come back.
Shouldn't it get easier with age? I mean 80% of men over 40 are flabby, balding and haven't done any form of exercise since high school. What is considered average for a 25 year old probably stands out at 45.
Black pill trap.
My mom was a stay at home mom by choice, then became a good enough trader at age 50 that my dad quit his job. She used loans and leverage. It's about knowing what you can do, doing it, and striving to do better. Most black pill people try once or for a short while, and blame everything else. To do something hard, you have to admit to yourself a lot of things and be kind to yourself but disciplined. It may not work out. Black pill people would rather be right about their preconceptions then fail at something fair, adjust and continue on an uncertain path. Maybe it doesn't lead to where you want, but you don't know unless you try.
Its harder especially if you don’t have any base. Just do yourself a favor and take in 100 grams at the min of protein if you start lifting. In highschool and most of college I didnt really spend money on protein and my efforts were wasted. Iv been eating 120g a day for the past two years and im pretty built since
What is the best ways to get protein without whey?
lots of meat and milk products basically, so you may just go ahead and get the dammed whey since it's easier to consume, just throw milk over it and stir.
I jump rope and do body weight shit
I know to get leaner I need to stick to a strict diet
Tbh I hook up still with normal chicks but also just frick escort girls in tijuana since it's not super expensive for me and I live close to the border
I think me fricking escorts has made me complacent with my physique but I want to get leaner
A lean mean fricking machine
this is the current escort chick im fricking, 18 years old, wraps her legs around me in missionary and full on gfe, kek, $150 an hour in tijuana
I'm actually more fit now in my late 20s than when I was in uni in early 20s, I have more facial hair, better hairline & hair (transplant) and skin ( tretinoin) , I also just continue to looksmaxx tbh with other things like teeth, cosmetic stuff, etc
She's so attractive, why the frick does she do prostitution? I'm surprised no rich guy has married her and brought her to America.
Cause she lives in Tijuana south from San Diego
if she was born in San Diego she could charge boomers $800 an hour and they'd pay
But because she's in Tj i get to frick her for $150 an hour in tijuana
Muscle groth only stops if you stop pushing your body. Multiple studies have been done with people in their 70's 80's and 90's beginning a workout regimen, and getting noticable gains, as well as solving multiple health issues they've had including chronic joint and back pain.
>Muscle groth
>bare minimum to get a date in 2023.jpg
Get out of these homosexual echochambers moron.
Purple pill, bluepill, whatever pill it's all moronic. Only you can make the change and only you can live the life you want. Being fricking terminally online all day is the real reason why your a fricking loser.
I'm 33, and have lost 70 pounds since March. I've been through about 10 years of general overweight indulgence and laziness, pausing every few years to lift/diet for a few months. This is the first time since I was in high school that I weigh less than 170, and have lifted consecutively for more than 2 months. I plan to never be a fat shitlords again until I'm really old and eat myself to death (assuming I live that long)
This is a stupid question. Accomplished what? Plenty of people have hit 1/2/3/4 starting at 30. It's possible to get fit at any age provided you aren't too far gone. The room for error gets narrower the older you get and the potential peak gets smaller as you get older but you can always get "fit" according to any standard definition of fit other than some demoralizers on IST.
27 is a baby. If you were 47 saying you can't exercise and have chronic problems then yeah maybe it'd be a question.
I got my shit together at two years ago when I was 30, weighed 110kg now down to 83kg. People frequently comment on my physique so I guess it's good enough to impress normal people. I was pretty IST in my teens and early 20s though so maybe it was easier for me compared to somebody who's never been in shape.
I'm not Mr. Universe but I'm turning 40 in a few months and very happy with where I am. Didnt start exercising until 23 and didn't start weight lifting until ~26.
Looking good for 40 bro, here's a (You)
killing it dude
Im 38. Lift 3 / week
Over 50 oldgay here. Weighed 240 lbs two years ago, now 155. I spend about 2 hours daily at the gym, 50/50 cardio/weights. Fitter than I've been in decades. WAGMI
I'm 31 and hitting the gym hard and swimming again and it feels great.
but I'm getting cucked so hard by my left wrist. I broke my radius and have a plate in. my forearm/grip is limiting everything I do and it fricking blows.
Injury is the real game ender, not age. I am going to blast forearms every fricking day and probably roid if I have to
If you are trying to prevent pain in areas dense with connective tissue, don't roid. In many cases gear is going to deteriorate connective tissue through anti-estrogenicity or at the very least through cause muscles to get way stronger than tendons, adding to excessive strain on weak tendons and ligaments. FYI muscles grow and regenerate about 3 times faster than connective tissue, so roiding can cause problems by having muscle growth greatly outpace connective tissue growth, and add to or worsen existing pain and injuries.
Try doing false grip dead hangs. I have had to do it for calisthenics and gymnastics strength training and that shit will absolutely nuke your wrist flexors in a good way
noted. thank you anon.
If you are so inclined you can get really fit at an older age. Maybe you won't be a top-tier athlete like someone in his 20's, but that doesn't really matter. If you are fit at an older age, the better you will be percentilewise. A 50 year old in great shape is a unicorn and commands a lot of respect.
This, just don't overdo endurance training as it can leave you looking haggard.
This has plagued me somewhat as I have got fit again (@50) after 20-odd years of dodgy health, dodgy diet and an inclination to sit on my backside. Biggest problem is fragility of ligaments, and a seemingly doubled repair time. Have to take things slow and learn some patience.
Just some crab in a bucket, safe to ignore.
I'm 34 and started to get IST last year when my I split with my ex.
I'm now in the best shape I've been in since being a teenager.
It's possible, you just gotta not be a lazy piece of shit and eat clean
I'm 38 and have spent the last year getting in the best shape of my generally out of shape life. Have better endurance, vo2, BMR, RHR than I've had my whole life.
The only problem is that im washed out. I turned 30 in Sept 2022 and since then everything went downhill. Some people aren’t meant to make it and the blackpill is real
>inb4 back to /LULZ/
I have never been there and never will go . I was on Reddit until 2017 then I came here cause I realized they were a bunch of basedcucks and lost friends aswell because of their ‘blue pill’ mentality but right now im feeling washed up and I don’t know how to reverse it. I have 28k in the bank, I broke up with the love of my life, friends are fading, my faith in Jesus is not strong as I would like although I love him a lot, my mom hates me and it hurts. I don’t know bros, also I lost gains despite not losing any sessions.
Literally me but I'm 27, holy shit it's over. I wish I had a time machine to go back to 14 and fix my life.
Not possible. No one has ever done it. It's your age and not the fact that you're a weak b***h
Check thyroid and hormones. I got pretty good noob gains but not as good as I thought I should. Thyroid was fricked and had low T. 36 and I'm in better shape than I was during college.
Best shape of my life at 35. started lifting and dieting at 32 after being soft skinnyfat b***h my whole life. Still a fricking loser but being in shape and working out a lot makes me feel good about myself.
Are you using tren?
No. what's tren ? Just yogurt oats and protein.
Nice work dog, good for you and looking great. I'm
and
, and am 34 / natty. We boomers have to show that you shouldn't give up just because you're starting after 25 or even 30
My dad started at 42 and is in great shape now.
You're just not trying hard enough.
32 here
I'm physically in the best shape of my life, but mentally I'm going to hell
Decided to finish up my education and get a proper degree, after 10 years of bartending, but it just feels wasted, tbh
I'm 27 and just started working out regularly again a couple months ago. I've already surpassed what I did in my early 20s weight lifting wise, still need to work on cardio to catch back up. Age is just a cope for people who were never in shape to begin with. It's never too late.
is not even like the users on this board try to post somethinig that is little coherent, or something, is likely they are all trolls, otherwise i can not fathom someone asking stupid shit like this
I'm sure IST doesn't want to hear this, but it is a fact that you would have been better starting out young and fit as a child, teen, and then twenty year old. Tendons so inflamed you have to quit some exercises. Fricked up joints. Skin never as tight as it could have been. I suspect you'll be more prone to accidents from exercise as well. That's been my experience. However, it's still worth it. No matter how many disabilities or shitty things you have to deal with. Train carefully though.
sure, this is true, but I had to completely start my fitness journey over at age 33 after 2 years as a fat, fat, sedentary piece of depressed shit during lockdowns, and I made it work. I'm 34 now and in the absolute best shape of my life. Stronger, more skilled, more flexible, more stable, and lowest body fat of my life. After you're past your early-mid 20s--- no matter who you are--- you do need to take warming up, mobility, and stability drills very seriously and spend more time on these kinds of things to keep up with what 18 year old can pull off. I see high school and college aged kids at the gym just roll in and get under the bench press or barbell squat without any warming up or even laddering up the weight, and I remember when I used to do that.
You can't afford to treat warmup or mobility work as luxuries or accessories anymore... they become central to making the working out sustainable when you're older. I have literally 2 days a week in the gym doing weighted mobility work for my lifting and calisthenics goals. But in return for doing those things religiously and also getting very serious about learning/mastering good form, you can pretty much ensure that you will remain pain/injury free well into middle age and continue banging out PRs into your 50s