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Did 3 of them already in the past two years, and was considering signing up for Pickleball.
Thrifting should be an option.
I can tell I’m the target demo because the Goodwills all play music I like.
I know it’s a thing, I see kindred souls with the same millennial dork vibes all of the time.
My local Goodwill sucks so I go to a thrift shop run by a church and listen to their horrible Christian rock.
Man are those dudes horny for Jesus.
The closer the music is to this, the more likely you are to find something that goodwill would have auctioned off for $300+ going at like $5. Some Alpha MTG booster pack, a forgotten Nirvana cassette demo, all of these things lay buried in the bottom floor of some church basement. The place will only accept cash though.
As a gen-x, I feel attacked that millennials are already having midlife crises.
You are young! Save it for your fifties, kids, I haven’t had mine yet!
Millenials ain’t making it to our 50s, the water/climate wars will solve that for us.
I’m full of micro plastics.
As a fellow gen-x, I had one in my early forties and again at fifty-seven!
I have done all of these. None of them were a midlife crisis - that was straight fucking.
What’s with the popularity of pickleball these day? What happened to badminton?
People won’t stop laughing when you refer to the shuttle-cock.
So now we say “Slap that pickle, Chet!” And no one giggles.
It’s exploded into a fad for some reason. I think the idea was just a version of tennis for people who have more issues with their joints and whatnot, but even younger people are getting into it. Where I used to live there is a pretty sizeable indoor pickleball place, which is kind of wild to me.
Motorcycles!🏍️🏍️💨💨
Maybe I should get one again…
That was my quarter life crisis, I fear my midlife crisis
My closest one would be running. I started doing 5 minutes a day on an old exercise bike where the computer and thus the resistance motor didn’t work in september, gradually adding more time as I got into better shape.
It was when I got a new one that actually works in mid January that I REALLY got going, though, and I’ve put in 90 hours for a total of 3813 km (2369 miles) since then.
For context, that’s more than the straight line distance between Washington DC and Los Angeles or almost the distance between London, England and Gao, Mali.
As far as mid life crises go, that along with eating a lot better ain’t so bad 😁
Less like a crisis, more like a solution
True 😁
What about the stereotype of buying a flashy car? Arguably that’s the one I fell I not: spending far more on a car than I ever have to get something flashy and different, and purely thinking of me for what felt like the first time in my life.
I bought a roadster … which turned out to be probably the best financial decision of my life. $11K (used, obviously) and I drove it for nine years and then resold it for $5K. The thing about roadsters is that they’re thoroughly impractical, so dudes buy them and then keep them in a garage for a decade or two and then sell them for next to nothing. I have no friends so I don’t even need the one passenger seat let alone a back seat.
I came really close to doing that as a younger adult. At one point it was almost a club, so many co-workers had an older mg. Unfortunately they are no longer as plentiful or cheap.
Now I’m tempted from time to time but would never spend the time to care for it myself, which is one of the reasons to get an older vehicle.
At the moment I have the practical needs that both my kids are driving but sharing one car and can’t yet afford their own. This is the first summer that coordination will be a challenge. I took a Quick Look into long term rentals and short term leases and they’re just too expensive. I don’t want to buy them a car that will just sit and rot for 10 months they’re in college. I am so tempted to get myself another fun car. Maybe a project or classic. For the summer I’d have one more vehicle to share for the family. If there was an issue with my main car, I’d have an option. And if it’s a fun car for me I don’t mind having it the ten months of the year they’re in school
these are all horrible. where is cosplay at 48?
Synthesizer and gym habit. The former for fun, and the latter out of necessity.
Well I’m forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don’t hate listening to my own screams.
So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that’s mine.
Fuck. Running.
Japan?? Ummm, wut? Damnit… I’m still going.
What do you do if running hurts your knees? Just do it anyway?
I have tried changing footwear but generally if I walk a lot my knee will hurt. Doctor said thats just how I’m built I guess.
I would like to get into it. I guess I could just do NSAIDs?
have you thought about trying cycling?
I do love cycling and sometimes use the bike in the gym. Running would be cheap and convenient tho
Maybe do strength training and stretching exercise first that target the leg muscles. A lot of knee pain comes from imbalanced leg muscles. Like when one side of the leg is too stiff or too weak.
Running is in most cases good for knee health in the long term. It could be that you just need to take it slower to build up the knee strength.
Important: If you feel pain, stop and wait for it to recover.
It depends. Do they hurt because the cartilage is gone? Then I’m pretty sure you are boned and have to pick one of the other three midlife crisis. Otherwise try physiotherapy. Lots of things cause knee pain: imbalance of muscle strength, muscle tightness, poor running style, bad shoes. Don’t power through on pain killers - you don’t want to also be in pain when you aren’t running. Oh, and bad shoes is the last thing to look at out of those four. People can generally run in anything. A shoe that compensates for one of the other three problems is not a good shoe.
youtube.com/@thekneesovertoesguy
Check out this guy. Now full transparency I’ve never checked his stuff out, but people who know far more than I do say he is legit and I know a few people who have used his videos to work through injuries and improve their range of motion and it worked.
Theres also some “Performance enhancing compounds” that can supposedly improve longevity and recovery that can help with joint issues but thats a whole rabbit hole and the research just isnt definitive, I’ve dabbled and I feel like they worked and know stuff but I’m not trying to advertise for that sort of thing.
I used to always run for fun. I was a go run a “real quick” 10k to hatch a pokemon egg kind of guy. I can’t run anymore because of my knees, my doc said I need surgery, but I’m waiting until I feel that I need it.
Btw if I were you and my doctor said something dumb like that, I’d find another doctor.
My advice is to use an elliptical to test the waters. They are when used correctly low impact on the knees.
Thanks yeah that seems like a reasonable choice
Don’t use drugs to solve a problem like this. You’ll just build a tolerance and solve nothing.
Look into strength training as others suggested. Start with bodyweight exercises before moving on to weights. It’ll take a while though as you’ll need to experiment to find what works, and ofc exercise isn’t an overnight thing.
Maybe also consult a physical therapist.
And if all of that is too much, running isn’t the only effective cardio exercise. Cycling, swimming and less obvious/weird ones like slideboard mountain climbers, which should all be easier on the knees
I get pain in my shins when I run outside. I exclusive run on the treadmill now and that works for me.
You’ve got a muscle there.
The pain could be from a lot of things:
Shoes too tight, the way you roll your foot as you run, schin splints (very doubtful), even not being hydrated could be a cause for your issue.
The right running shoes are also very important.
Have you tried insoles? Mine started to hurt and it was from my knees turning in because of bad arch support in my shoes
I have, although I suppose it’s been a while since I tried running with the new shoes and insoles
Music 🎼🎵🎶
More specifically: playing the instruments: drum, piano/keyboard, clarinet, guitar, whatever else 🥁🎹🎸🎷🎺🎻🪗🪘🎛️
Bonus points for “getting back to”, as in: something you got a start as a young fella but then life happens and you stopped doing it, and now that your bone aches when it is cold your mind went to old times when life feels brighter.
none, just neutrally observing my fastly declining physical recovery rates and wondering if it will be in the negatives 20 years later
Pretty much. I’ve got frozen shoulders going on, a sore neck for about a year, and I have to head straight to the bathroom when I get out of bed.
Lol wait til you’re peeing five times a night.
The workshop life has found me. Currently obsessed with 3d printing
I did this as a hobby anyway, but I just can’t find the time.
As a elder millennial, I am slotted heavily into the running category. Everyday!
I don’t know, running for a lot of us is just having our bodies start breaking down and want to avert that.
Biking fills a similar crisis role, as long as you paid $15K for the bike.
I didn’t pay $15K but I got a new one. And then the gears were two low because it was a mountain bike and I had to install a custom touring drive train. (I’m having the same problem with my current e-bike, in that I run out of gears and e- at about 20mph.)
Okay I’ll bite
What is pickle ball? Is it like Calvin ball? Also, whoever finishes reading this comment will forget they were ever gay.
Running
I’m not quite there yet but i would probably just keep on cycling. It’s a great sport and even better for a midlife crisis. There’s even a word for it: MAMIL (Middle-Aged Men in Lycra)
I’m a middle-aged cyclist (though I got into it around 20) who eschews lycra. I hate the look, the fit, and the feel. I bike in vans slip-on, running shorts, and t-shirts. At most I’ll wear chamois under the shorts. No clips for me either, flats with the peg screws forever. 90% road cyclist btw, very little mountain biking. Oh and no fitness tracker / GPS as of a few years ago. I just need as little friction as possible between being not on the bike and being on the bike. For me it translates to more fun and many more miles.
There are many different sorts of cycling though. Mountain biking and road cycling seem to be the two that can involve spending a lot of money on high end gear that is well suited to a mid life crisis.
I just go on bike rides to the beach on my bike that only cost mid 3 figures.
Um, a deep dive into moral philosophy? No academic institutions were attached to it. I just read a lot.
Where do I go to make friends like you?
I’d suggest a BDSM munch or a LUG at a cafe. Also writing groups.
3/4 for me.
Just finished my second 1/2 marathon, got a masters last year and trying to go to Japan this fall
What’s your pickleball team gonna be called?
The Relish
The two that don’t involve me having to do any physical exercise ofcourse
Did I speedrun a midlife crisis in my 20s? 🤔 Never did pickleball, but that’s pretty synonymous with retirees over 60 in my corner of the world.
None, more modelmaking, hiking and reading.
Me who just went back for their PhD
Oh god, I feel called out. Except that mine has been a long and painful trajectory with various episodes since high school.
Miniatures wargaming and lifting over here. Also got divorced, which was good.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Grad school but I can’t afford it. Or running but my knees hurt so I got way too into bicycles
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If your pedals have power meters, you’ve gone too far.
socsa@piefed.social 3 days ago
Jokes on you, my power meter is in the crank arm.