Stiff Isn't Inevitable: Mobility After 40 Is a Skill, Not a Death Sentence
Sometime around forty, men start describing their own bodies the way they’d describe the rain — “I’m just stiff now.” It’s said with the resignation of a weather report, as if stiffness were a thing that happened to them rather than a thing they stopped doing. That one sentence contains an entire theory of aging, and it’s wrong. Stiffness is not a property of getting older. It’s the consequence of a skill — moving through a full range of motion — that quietly got dropped from the training menu the moment the schedule got busy. ...