There&#x27;s also the factor of different types of exercise. Resistance training (again, with proper form) has done wonders for me (and before I trot out anecdata, I&#x27;ll preface that resistance training has been prescribed for skeletal issues in the elderly for a while now). Things that used to hurt after &quot;totally unrelated&quot; exercise (hiking, climbing, etc), now no longer hurt. And I had been doing these activities for years - it wasn&#x27;t until I started resistance training that the pain went away.