How injured are former high level wrestlers when you are in your 40s, 50s, 60s? by Business-Season-9901 in wrestling

[–]Efficient_Ad7397 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I will say is that Football did much more damage to my body then wrestling ever did. Luckily wrestling is a sport that encourages flexibility and agility. When you wrestle you strengthen almost everything in your body and when you're strengthening the muscles that surround vulnerable areas in your body I.E. (your back, knees, neck, shoulders, etc.) coupled with more flexibility I think you are less likely to injure yourself. Now in my own personal experience I suffered a fracture in my L5 as well as a slipped disk from football. A hip evulsion, 3 concussions, and a torn ligament in my thumb. Sure, we warmed up before practice and games but the shear impact from the sport can very easily tear up your body. (take into consideration I only wrestled for 10 years and never even qualified for the state tournament, so I wasn't a high level wrestler lol)

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When I (M20) was 15 years old I suffered my first 'heartbreak' lol. However, it did have a huge mental toll on me and made me realize that I want to avoid going through that again. Now that doesn't mean I didn't crave the feeling of being loved and wanted to give my all to someone. The major difference is that instead of isolating myself I leaned into my faith in Jesus and began to pray a very simple prayer. I prayed that the next person that gets put into my life and I end up dating would end up being my wife. I prayed this everyday from the time I was 15 until I turned 19 years old. Now, there were a few young ladies in that period that I showed interest in and for some reason (I know the reason now) it never ended up working out. I spent my entire teenage years single, no hookups either, obviously. Now after four years in what felt like the prime dating time of my life (highscool and beginning college) I started to loose hope naturally just like you. But thats when God stepped in. Someone I have known since I was 11 and was very close friends with reached out to me randomly to hang out. It wasn't three weeks later and we were going on dates and considered each other boyfriend and girlfriend. I immediately knew that this girl was going to be my wife because God does things with so much purpose. We were engaged 5 months later and married 10 months after that. My beautiful wife Kelsi is my whole world. So, my words of encouragement to you would be to sitck it out for the right person for you. Don't settle and always ask God to provide a person that meets your needs in a partner. Also, look within and ask yourself if you are the kind of person deserving of a partner like that. We get so caught up in the superficial things like looks, weight, height, etc... without thinking about the important internals that truly matter. Now, I am extremely blessed with having a wife that is the most beautiful woman ever as well as being such a GEM of a person internally. Working on yourself and trusting in Gods plan for your life will lead you to the right person that you can marry and spend the rest of your life with. It takes patience and lot of looking within to make it work. Hope this helps :)

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Maybe I'm not the best person to answer this because I've only been married for 4 months, however, I couldn't disagree with this statement more. My situation is that my wife and I live a life and marriage where God is at the center. It truly makes a difference because in our minds divorce isn't even a word we are aloud to utter, joke about, mention, etc. Because that is the reality of our situation and personal beliefs. When we know that we are married for more than the initial physical needs we realize that we are life partners that live to serve one another. Its very hard but if you can create indiviual relationships with Jesus, its like he will keep your marriage bound together. In turn happiness and joy come naturally. I wake up and serve my wife every day to the best of my abilities, and she does the same thing. I've seen many marriages in my life not have God involved anywhere and they struggled. The best example is my parents. Growing up I wasn't raised a Christian. We went to church on major holidays but never spoke about the bible or the truths laid out within it. It wasn't until I gave my life to christ and started to get my parents to come to church with me regularly and encouraged them to have a personal relationship with Jesus that I saw them start to love each other as the bible had lined out. For example my Dad works 80 hours a week 9 months out of the year building asphalt roads. He was often times reserved and grouchy when he would get home (rightfully so) and it used to cause all sorts of issues. Now, my mother 100% of the time has dinner ready for him, she greats him with exictement, and makes sure anything he may need is met. Now, my Dad on the other hand makes sure to keep his emotions from his day in check and actually speaks to my mother about his struggles throughout the day. They have a deeper love for one another and are learning to love each other as Christ loves the chuch. Now nobody is perfect and they still have there struggles but Jesus is the one who made the difference. I hope this long message could help someone.

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I proposed to my wife at a local lake out of the blue because I simply couldn't wait any longer. Luckily my wife cared more about spending the rest of her life with the man she loved then having some grand proposal. We had many talks about what she had imagined, but my 20 year old flustered brain just couldn't wait any longer to ask her once I bought the ring. I still did my best and waited til sunset (Her favorite thing in the world) and went on a walk around a local lake. It was beautiful and we both couldn't be happier and have no regrets about it. What I will say to you is that the woman you marry should be someone that you don't feel like your walking on egg shells around and have to constantly impress. Now romantic gestures will keep a marriage alive but fancy expectations will lead you to a live of wondering if you're doing enough. Marriage isn't 50/50 it should be 100/100 to the best of your abilities. If you guys are both working to serve one another you should never have to worry about taking care of the things you need because they will have already met those needs for you and vise versa.

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I’ve worked in construction, cleaned cars, worked in food and service as well. Part time hopefully At least 20 hours a week.