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As Mark Rippetoe says, “Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.” Harder to kill doesn’t just mean combat either. Real life isn’t like video games either, you can get a great return on strength training time. So good in fact that gaining strength won’t impair your other abilities at all unless you’re planning to compete at the highest levels.

If you want to maintain a high quality of life and an active life into old age, you are going to need to lift weights. Or a similar equivalent exercise that provides impact to preserve strength and bone density.

The sooner one starts the better.

For me i was grabbing something not heavy and instinctly went like a deadlift. And i was impressed i am now instinctly grabbing even easy things with correct posture.