Have you noticed the lose of an ability as you get older.

At 64 am a tad slower doing things, whereas everything had to be done at a fast pace previously. I still do everything, but unable to jump on a horse anymore and need a fence or something solid for me to get up. Mind you they are 3 very big horses anyway. I do have arthritis, but refuse for it to rule, so pop an anti inflammatory in the morning and continue on. Can still climb the ladders, kneel down and run but slower, mainly because I have heavy steel capped boots on. I rescue all sorts of livestock and because they free roam am outside feeding, cleaning or playing with them. Stay positive and don’t let that old age rule is my belief

At 64, I'm a little hard of hearing, hands are weaker, legs are weaker. I cant kneel on hard surfaces and always need something to lean on/pull myself up.
Walking club is fun but stiles are difficult on country walks. Hills are harder.
My challenge this month is to do my exersises again for balance, stregth and flexibility
I'm in a walk every day group on FB and its brilliant fir motivation

I find if I bend over I get indigestion. Kneeling is problematic as I struggle to get up and if I squat then I am in real trouble. My eyesight has changed and I was cooking yesterday with my glasses on and saw that the kitchen needs a real good deep clean. (Shock., horror) How do crumbs get in the drawer when the drawer is closed? Also have to be careful of my back. BUT things could be worse.

I am one of the lucky ones, but I do know the difficulty of opening jars, but as someone has already said you can get a gadget that opens jars and bottles and another that turns taps on and off.

I can't dig the garden any longer, and are far less confident on ladders or step-ladders than I used to be.

I should feel quite happy at being able to cope with some of the same conditions that try people here who are years younger. I am 80.
I could ski 50 years ago but always found it difficult to right myself. The getting up is still difficult now I don't ski. In my childhood my eyes reacted strongly to swimming. Now I no longer do the swimming but they react strongly anyway, even to a positional change or a draught
My brain still seems ok so am left in the wonderful world of my head, memories and imagination. I think I get far more joy out of trying to write stuff than I ever did at school
Why, even this morning, my brain seemed to want to start on an essay ' dieing is a strange process'

Most of the above plus the ability to control wind when walking across the room after eating peas or sweetcorn. The rhythm impresses Mr Norder.

I don't have the strength in my arms any more. I find hoisting the up and over garage door is like a mini work-out. The injuries from a train crash 30 years ago have left me with severe lower spine problems but I know that sitting down is not the answer. Keep moving about even if it can only be in short bursts. The main thing is I am still breathing in and out, so life is good.

The end of last year, I fell down the stairs and broke my ankle and wrist. Before this I would walk a few miles a day, when the casts were removed, I realised I had lost the ability to walk far, 50 yards and I had to stop and rest. I have however I have built my walking up and now back to doing 3-4 miles a day or more. I think doing exercise each day keeps us healthy and happy.

travelsafar Like you I could not sit cross legged but I started Pilates just before last Christmas and now it is no bother to me. A good Pilates instructor could help you stretch out stiff joints. ?

I am 77 and before a total knee operation in March I thought I was Wonderwoman. The brutality of the op, and total lack of aftercare owing to Corvid brought on an excruciating attack of inflammatory arthritis which means I now have a painful limp, can’t drive, can’t bend, can’t cut toenails, can’t kneel, suffer fatigue etc. I have a very complicated drugs regime which has reduced some pain but I now have much more sympathy for disabled people than formerly. It’s so hard to face physical disability when you’ve been arrogantly fit in former years.

Joined up writing (seriously). My joined up writing is worse than a 90 year old GP. I have to write in capitals. Could be age, could be 30 years in IT industry where most things were typed. Could be laziness!

I realised old age was creeping up when playing with DGD a year or two ago. She said 'Jump, Grandma'. I tried... Somehow I just can't jump. As well as all the other stuff like many posts on here. Everything's slowly going downhill. Actually, quite quickly in some instances.

I was coping with old age until I had a recent cataract operation which means that the eye which has always been very, very short sighted suddenly has much improved sight. The first time I saw myself in the bathroom mirror was a very unpleasant shock! Wrinkles x 1000 revealed!!!!

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lovebeigcardigans that is precisely it - as time has progressed and you have become even wiser and more knowledgeable you have a lot more information to sift throught, and therefore it takes slightly longer. Slowing up - naa!

My hands are pretty useless; there aren't any real problems but i don't have any strength in them, and these days they seem to be there just to wstop my wrists fraying.

Oh my spelling/typos! Hit the wrong button, meant to check first.

Another shout-out for Pilates. I don’t play netball anymore but I can do things like bending down to get things out of cupboards & getting up reasonably gracefully from the floor that I couldn’t do 5 years ago.
A physio I know says ‘motion is lotion’ so if anything feels as though it’s seizing up I get moving & it seems to work.

I'm just having a rest for 10 minutes and catching up on today's threads. I've been cleaning the bathroom and bending down to scrub the bath and shower tray has taken its toll on my back! Never used to think twice about things like that but at 71 (not old I know) I'm not as supple as I used to be. Have recently started bike riding again so hoping I will loosen up eventually.

funnygran Pilates would teach you how to do things like that without straining your back.

Arthritis in the knees prevents kneeling, and bending is difficult to do. I do miss having a bath, but have showers now since getting stuck in a hotel bath in, ironically, Bath. I have also started to have problems opening tins, as my hands are getting creaky.

Another activity affected by age is, in my opinion, sex. The equipment is still in working order but the quality has declined. (As I wrote that sentence, the title of an old TV series popped into my head - Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Width!)

I'm only approaching 62 but have only just realised I can no longer jump! I never noticed when that happened and so therefore cannot remember when I last jumped. I following exercises on YouTube and they suddenly started star jumping! I can't do it!! I had to do the easier version and I am so upset.

Chewbacca: I don't want to worry you, but i could happily kneel down and get in and out of the bath before I had my total knee replacement. Afterwards, I could do neither and was even rushed into hospital in agony with over a litre of fluid on my knee. The consultant concerned wouldn't admit liability and didn't even come and visit me when I was in hospital even though he was actually on the ward when I was there. (I had a single room, so I couldn't see him). After the op, I had to make lots of repeated visits to try and get all the problems sorted out, but they never were and he refused to admit any liability and even told lies about what I had said on previous visits. I really should have sued, as I am so much worse off now than before the operation and can only walk short distances.

Hetty ‘I can't balance as well as I used to. I have to take extra care climbing ladders and trees‘. That made me laugh so much my rib aches.

My bladder seems to have lost, um, endurance.....

About 5 years ago, I remember thinking how good my eyebrows looked. Then I bought reading glasses for the first time, and good grief, what a mess!! Thank goodness I had a fringe?!