Ageing

[dolphinsss]

Pasley, I had a good laugh from the statement you made, true it may be, being in the 20's something myself, I usually have body/muscles aching after a dive trip, I'm keeping myself fit by doing aerobics and swim oftenly, still, I get quite tired and need a few days to recuperate each time. Salute to you guys out there who are enjoying diving at an older age. I wonder if I would be still diving when I am 50 years old, I hope I am

 

[Nomaster]

I'm still young, 55, but my various activities and genetics have worked together (CONSPIRED) to trash my right shoulder (Bad weight lifting when 30) my lower back (learned sit ups wrong in high school and continued to do them wrong for decades; heavy lifting and work) knees (osteoarthritis, probably brought on by bump skiing, jogging, tennis, climbing and such) and various other minor gliches with my body.
I have a little pain while climbing the mountain in back of my workplace (for fitness) so I'm carefull about foot placement now and I am more careful about how I position my body to lift things than when I was young and didn't know the consequences, then later when I ignored them.
SCUBA, in the water there are no problems. I equalize the same now as I did free diving and SCUBA diving in the sixties and early seventies. I hadn't noticed the varicose vein improvement, mine aren't too bad yet, but I'll check that out during my next dive trip in two weeks.
Actually many of the daily aches and pains leave for quite a while after a trip, which makes me believe that the aging "problem" is mostly mental.
As was stated before, we tend to limit ourselves, perhaps partly in response to how younger people react to our age. I remember often wondering at the many things people said that they couldn't do because they were too old.
Now, years later, we "old" folks are doing all the things that our parents and grandparents didn't because they were "too old".

Tom

 

[drbill]

I'm 57 and do 250-400 dives a year. Outdove many buddies in their 20's in the past few years due to one thing that keeps improving with age... experience! Like a fine wine. I know I'm a better diver now than I was in my teens or 20's (when I also smoked).

I'm fortunate to have good health. I do have some minor knee problems that limit my flexibility so I occasionally get caught up getting my wetsuit on. However I still carry a 50-pound HP 120 tank and pony on my back. Once in the water, no problem at all.

Another thing that has definitely improved with age, and posed a minor "problem" during surface intervals... more beautiful women divers on the scene. Of course when I started there were few woman divers at all. Now there are not only more in each age group, but I'd like to think that there are more "eligibles" since I Have more age ranges to choose from! Sure makes getting back into the water difficult some days.

Much of my diving has been cold water. One adjustment I make when I finally get "old" is to move to a tropical island instead of this temperate one. Water is warmer and the women are more scantily clad.

Dr. Bill

 

[Tim Wong]

Pasley, I had a good laugh from the statement you made, true it may be, being in the 20's something myself, I usually have body/muscles aching after a dive trip, I'm keeping myself fit by doing aerobics and swim oftenly, still, I get quite tired and need a few days to recuperate each time. Salute to you guys out there who are enjoying diving at an older age. I wonder if I would be still diving when I am 50 years old, I hope I am

Dolphinsss. From the replies posted so far, you will get to dive until you are in your 70++ - with your grand children. :10:

P/S - Thanks for all the replies. Now that clears things up for me.