very annoying. As I have a few years on you, I am aware of the metabolic changes, but I will do what I do until I can't. I've been fortunate in that my joints are healthy, but my computer usag does lead to tendinitis in one hand and one elbow, which limits my lifting is certain ways...or...*can* limit my lifting. In that case it is not worth working through the pain because the pain is warning of damage.

By the same token I am not so psycho as Christian Bale's 1,000 crunches a day in "American Psycho" -- there just isn't the time, especially when my goals are physical and intellectual.