So, I have a rediculous bone to pick with Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super. I can hear the clamoring now. Do me a favor, tho, and consider my thought process before y'all begin rattling your sabers, pitchforks and hoes. Now, before we go any further, let me preface this. In order to understand where I'm coming from you'll need to enable your disbelief and also loosely compare DBZ and DBS elements with how things work here, in the real world. In particular: how our bodies function and how a Saiyan's should function as their humanoids with similar physiology.
Without further ado: Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
In DBS, its revealed that Universe 7 Saiyans stay youthful and in their prime into their 80s. Albeit some mature slower than others. Looking at you, Grandpa Goku. That by itself is pretty interesting and cool, until you remember the existence of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and the Saiyans cavalier and flippant use of it.
If you spend one whole day in the chamber, intensely training, you end up with equitable experience that equates to a year. Now, for a layman that means you could become proficient in an entire martial art over the span of a day. Pretty nifty, right? For a Saiyan, it means they learn new techniques and train in intensifying gravity and increasingly denser air. So, by the time they exit the Chamber, they're much faster and stronger than what would naturally be possible normally. And, as we know: speed is king in DB.
My point of contention arises from the effects of the time dilation. In the beginning arcs of Dragon Ball Super alone, Goku and Vegeta spend weeks in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. During the buildup to the Tournament of Destroyers (Universe 6 & 7), both spend approximately a week in the chamber. So, their bodies have aged 7 years by the time they exit.
Vegeta spends an unspecified amount of time in there, training to catch up to and surpass Goku. Vegeta, is already older than Goku.
If Saiyans stay in their prime (physically) until their 80s and these punch-drunk fighters have been using the Hyperbolic Time Chamber since the onset of the Cell Saga, it stands to reason that they are physically past their prime by the beginning of the Tournament of Power arc. Realistically, past it by the Universe 6 & 7's tournament arc.
Even if they aren't chronologically 80 yet, their bodies should be well past that point. My evidence is thus: in the Army, every so often they have you take a test (the GAT) to determine how old your body is physically, which is loosely calculated by your level of activity and strain/stress you put upon it. It's been several years since I served and a few years past that since I took the GAT. However, when I did last take the test, the results informed me that my physical age was approximately 4 years older than my chronological age.
Again, putting aside the fact we're all supposed to suspend our disbelief to enjoy the beloved anime and source material, this disconnection between physical and chronological age seems like a heinous oversight. Or just laziness.
It's a rediculous bone to nitpick about, but it's something to think about. There's plenty of story potential in addressing this fact and it opens up the possibility to make Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Pan, etc more relevant to the cannon as they could step up and surpass their parents in strength in power. Likely, not Gohan, tho'. He has different priorities than his father and uncle (for the most part). Also, he has used the Hyperbolic Time Chamber as well. So, my same point of contention applies to him as well. Albeit, to a much smaller extent given Gohan's relative age and interests.
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