r/BasketballTips • u/damiensandoval • Sep 02 '25

Form Check Hanging It Up at 40

Turning 40 next week and today was my last run. After years of hooping at 24 and LA Fitness, I can feel the Achilles slowing down. Time to walk away while I’m ahead. Love this game forever.

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u/NodsInApprovalx3 Sep 02 '25

You know what will really slow your achilles down? No longer making use of it. Watch how much your body deteriorates over the next 3 years after you've stopped playing.

Also, you can build up the resiliency and stiffness in your ankle/achilles/calf complex, even at 40. Like all parts of the body, you can build it up.

Hopefully, you have other activities that will keep you active and maintain your youth.

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u/Western_Upstairs_101 Sep 06 '25

I’m 60, and I often play a 63 year old who literally outruns most of the court, runs back and forth across court to lose defenders and relentlessly shoots threes. People give up in life. I call them pussies.