@beauhightowerdn F’ed up my neck in HS football game in 2000 tackling incorrectly. Still hurts me to this day and still undiagnosed. To avoid it I would not play HS fb (I was undersized and my team sucked) and would focus on what I was good at which was hs wrestling.
Man.
I'm about to be 43 and I can actually feel myself falling out of my physical prime.
No HRT and I've been able to fight it off through my late 30s and Early 40s by staying active, but not mid 40s ... I am starting to get weaker in the gym, the salt and pepper is becoming mostly gray and I don't think I could even touch the rim anymore.
You somehow in your mind know it will come one day but for it to actually get here is a crazy experience. I see why people have midlife crisis now, because you start to lose the version of yourself that you have been for your whole adult life.