Only Young Once

Physical performance starts to fade when you hit 30.

Age begins to show. Health starts to deteriorate.

You don't realise how quickly your youth is over.

You want to make a memory. You want to savour every moment.

You only have one chance to do what you want to do when you are young.

If you don't give it a go, eventually, it will be too late.

All the money in the world will never get back time that passed you by.

No-one knows how old you will live and fit and healthy you will be as you age. Do it while you are still able.

Give up the myth of looking young forever or hankering for your younger years. You will be perpetually disappointed as you will never achieve perfection and will eventually age.

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Update Jan 2024

The best athletes in the world are under 30. Around 7% of the top athletes are over 30. Few are great after their mid 30s.

3 of the top 20 male and 2 of the top 20 female tennis players are over 30. This makes it 5 of the top 40 or 13%.

3 of 41 of the €50m+ market value players of of the top 5 football teams in the world according to Football Database are over 30 or 7% (or 1 of 50 based on market value alone or 2%)

1 of the most recent 10 world record breakers in athletics were over 30 or 10%.

0 of the most recent 10 world record breakers in swimming were over 30 or 0%.

The average age of Olympians is 25 [1].

In terms of dating for men, less than 5% of females under 25 want to date a male aged 40 [2]

Only 2% of women in Anglo countries marry men more than 15+ years older than them [3]

Those in their early 20s have an average age difference in their relationships of about two to three years [4]

20-22 year old women are most interested in men aged 23-25 [11]

Male desirability is at a peak at age 27 when 70% of women are attracted to them, dropping to 20% at age 40 [11]

Desirability for men starts declining from age 30 onwards and more than halves by age 40 [2]

Young people seem even more judgemental of age-gap relationships than their older counterparts, particularly when a man is older than a female partner [5]

Many women change their opinions of their early relationships as they grow up, to conform with societal disapproval of age-gap relationships [6]

Men are increasingly dependent on dating apps while dating is becoming increasingly difficult for men. Sexlessness has been rising and marriages declining worldwide [7] [8] [9]

Females in large cities in Western countries are increasingly intolerant and unaccepting [10]