Slowing down/aging

Nice surprise on the scales that i dropped 5 pounds last week as im shearing the sheep at home. Im a complete beginner so was doing 2/3 a day after work and was fierce sore . I was watching videos on the technique and one said about water intake. I drank loads as i worked yesterday.

Sheared 7 yesterday in an hour and dosed and cliked 60 more and not a bother on me this morning, actually feel great for once. I think the more you do the more your able to do but waterintake is a big thing too.

A guy that used contract shear with me had a heart 'event' during shearing one day because he wasn't drinking enough.

Whatever it was he was in Hospital for a few days.

Agree but lots of people put their back out with poor lifting practice. The amount of time I've had the advice "lift with your knees, not with your back" thrown back at me is mad. The brother is fecked and I'm not for that very reason. I've noticed that a bad back will age you very quickly. Look after your back and lift with yer feckin' knees. It's incredibly shortsighted not to.

Something is going to give from over use, it's going to be either the knees or the back - there's no escape.

The biggest thing about having a few pints is that you do not get bad liquor. Local changed owners a year back, new owner has improved the pints no end. Dublin is similar you get very few bad pints you can drink away. My first pints were from 12.30-2.30pm, then I did not have another until nearly 6 pm. Drinking a bit of water helps as well. I actually forgot I had a pint of water with my first pint after the match. As I was a bit dehydrated after the walk down from CP. No pint in CP so most woukd have gone through my system by the end if the match.

I only had about a pint an hour after the match Allowing for meal taxi and a bit of waiting around.

I was awake at 8.30 this morning down for breakfast after a shower at 9.15. Ate the breakfast hung around the hotel until 12 and headed home then.

Drink Coors at present but like Carlsberg as well but cannot get it locally. If I drink in the other local I would stop after 4-5.. if you are in bed by midnight you will recover quite fast.

Yeah horsing the water in. Did 7 today and drank 3/4 of a litre during it, every couple i stopped for a drink. Lose some water shearing. After the 7 my t-shirt was soaked... I'm heavy though so prob contributing to it also.

Absolutely. A strong back and legs will set one up for a much easier second half of life. Admittedly getting in and out of tractors and pulling and dragging at things makes the flexibility you mention more difficult to attain. Still, it's worth it and we don't all have to be in some way fecked in farming.

I find bodyweight lunges are great. Strengthens core and legs thereby making lifting with legs easier.

100%, there are a few pubs here, and you could drink 10 pints and be perfect. I drink Murphys and it has to be good. As bad stout is horrible

I always find a walk home from the pub great to settle the stomach. Nothing worst than downing a pint and 20 mins later, you're lying flat out.

Anyone else find as you get older, you loose your thirst - as in you never feel thirsty, even though you could be well dehydrated.

Na I drank less when I was younger. Usually only go out once a week on either Thursday or Saturday night.

A brother had a second rodeo( wedding) earlier this year. There was an uncle of mine there, he about 82. He had the bones of a gallon of Guiness quietly. Following morning at the breakfast he swore "never....never again".

At about 2pm he was quitely having a cure after which he slipped away to bed for a couple if hours before he came down for day two at 8pm

I say it Genetic

Ditch the Netflix and subscribe to freeletics or betterme app, there's loads out there, all you need is a set of dumbells and a band, even the bodyweight exercises will keep you fit

Heading for mid 50s here and haven't really the time to feel old, still young kids here running around in the evening with there activities, 2 of us working full-time try do a bit of farming, was in croke park last weekend, croke park again next weekend, it's mad busy at work, working in civil construction, 50 hour weeks slowing down isn't an option as oldest lad will be starting collage and our lifestyles needs a lot of funding, but saying all that I am lucky I have a great wife and 4 healthy kids that are full of the joys of life.

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Nothing to do with Old age, but congratulations to Dublin, where I got the worst pint of Guinness in Ireland this weekend.

One of them was Double L natural cider....think the maker is based out in Lusk..…used to sell in temple bar on a weekend ..had a couple of different varieties (dry, extra dry) made a nice Perry too....I bought a crate off drinkstore at one point...it was their minimum order at the time!

Used to get some of the French natural stuff imported at one point too.…similar story..higher abv no hangover and delicious...well to me anyway

Of the more widely available stuff....some of the Aspalls isn't bad...but tbh I haven't tested it to the same rigorous standards! It mmight give me a hangover...its a definite step above the Bulmers shite but I don't know their fermentation process...it could be just slightly better sugar water shitehawk cider.

pints before 10am on a Monday morning never tasted great anyways 😂😂