Possible Clues:

• Needed a chiropractor, say
• He had got under a century; that made him sore
• Had a continuous pain
• That's what it was like with Pa in
• Felt a throbbing
• Longed (for)
• Suffered from a workout
• Was soaring, perhaps, by the sound of it
• Rued the aerobics
• Was in need of a good rubdown