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M:
I hate to tell you this, and I am a little older than you, but I wish that I had learned earlier the difference between healthy muscle-exertion pain and damaging my body pain.
Many time, I just gutted it out, and now I realize that was usually a mistake. I have several pain meds, depending on the severity, and it takes me a while to get moving in the mornings. This sort of musculo-skeletal damage will get worse over time, and will manifest itself by neat things like arthritis. There are many on here in worse shape from that than me.
If you are fighting for your life, you can suck it up. Otherwise, if I do not know it to be simple pain from exertion, I stop and figure out a way to do it pain free. Sometimes, pain is really nature's way of telling you to stop that. There are plenty of conditioning exercises that will not injure you in the process. You aren't getting any younger, start treating your body decently.
I hope that you know the difference and apply the knowledge before you get to this state.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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