Can I get a suit that simulates being 20 years old again?
The harder kinds of stimulants maybe?
Age Simulation Suit
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#122I guess I'm the only one who thought this was literally a joke. If anyone is interested I have the orange tinted 90's ski goggles, weights for arms and legs, and I'll even throw in some mothballs and baby powder no additional charge.
Do people really need something this extravagant not too mention ridiculous looking in order to just relate to other humans? In order to empathize? Is it so hard to "take someone's word" for how they feel, that we need to feel it too? I've never had a Kidney Stone in my life, and I'm not signing up for one because I don't need to "see it to believe it."
But if it sells I say Kudos to the creator. I'm just shocked there's a niche here.
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#123I'm still waiting for the youth simulation suit.
Underrated comment!
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#124The site is slow so I can't see it. I'm 68, eat well, lost 20 pounds, work out twice a week. Everything is working fine. But I live in a place surrounded by people in walkers, wheelchairs, or using canes. Some of them have had strokes or accidents making improvement hard, but many simply chose to not do anything to avoid the aging. You don't ordinarily wind up with a walker at a single point; it often starts many yea…
My grandma is 90 and still lives alone, walks around her neighborhood daily, and swims in a community pool outside her back door. She attributes it (I think rightfully) to a lot of walking and activity throughout her life. Probably some good genes too (her brother is 100, her sister just passed at 104)
nah it's not probably. it is certainly is a big role
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#125I tried on an obesity simulation suit once. It was designed for caregivers - with the goal of increasing empathy in mind. It was amazing how difficult ordinary tasks were.
yeah that is because the weight was sudden and you were not acclimated to it.
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#126I'd be more interested in the other way around
losing weight is one way
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've noticed that the difference between 30 and 40 isn't the level of performance I have, but how quickly performance drops when I stop exercising. In my 30s, I could just not go to the gym for months, and I'd be fine. Now, if I don't go for a few weeks, stuff starts aching.
This is very true, which is why consistency is so key. I think the reason so many people perceive their health falling off in their 40s is that this is when the cumulative weight of increasing life responsibilities (kids, career advancement, caring for elder relatives, etc.) really hits hard, making it more and more difficult to find time/energy for regular exercise.
True. But you can also be smart about it, and it doesn't have to be something that takes your whole afternoon. 15 minutes of home exercise instead of media scrolling, and at the end of the week, it is 1:45, at the end of the month 7:45 that you've done something.
Or just a simple door frame exercise bar where you do a pushup or two now and then. These small things add up.
Or to go with friends to play football or my friend started to run, they made a Sunday morning running group. To end with what you've begun, regularity is the key.
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#128The site is slow so I can't see it. I'm 68, eat well, lost 20 pounds, work out twice a week. Everything is working fine. But I live in a place surrounded by people in walkers, wheelchairs, or using canes. Some of them have had strokes or accidents making improvement hard, but many simply chose to not do anything to avoid the aging. You don't ordinarily wind up with a walker at a single point; it often starts many yea…
I didn't realize this until a couple of years ago (in my 40s) but boy did it alter my perspective on life. And I've heard what you're saying here from a couple other people in their 60s too. When you're young you don't really think about it much, health comes for "free." But as you age your biology will force a choice upon you, one option is you spend progressively more time maintaining your health, in which case it…
> When you're young you don't really think about it much, health comes for "free."
I can't stress this enough. So many of my peers have complained about back pain and other physical ailments, as if it was an unavoidable part of turning 30.
No, it didn't just suddenly appear the moment you turned 30, it's the symptom of accumulated damage from a sedentary lifestyle.
For what it's worth, I've managed to get a lot of them into fitness, and they're doing much better now
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#129There is a flip side to these suits. They are meant to engender understanding and empathy. Occassionally, it goes wrong. Experience all the physical limitation and some come to the conclusion that old people should not be allowed to drive or operate anything that moves.
(I once had my foot run over by an elderly person in very heavy electric wheelchair in a grocery store. If not for my steel toes, i would have been limping for months. That person was totally unable to control the machine, but what can you say? Better my boots than a kid in flipflops.)
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