Yeah but sometimes you have to do things you don't particularly like. For example there are lots of people who do nothing but cycling and never do any sort of strength training which is certainly healthier than doing absolutely nothing but they are really missing out by not doing strength training.
You don’t have to exercise at all though. The far greater majority are people who don’t like exercise at all, and won’t do anything. To have a person do at least some exercise of any form is a big win for their health anytime it happens. That’s what we don’t want to discourage.
Nobody is actively discouraging that so you are just making up a strawman argument. That said cross training is very important for things like injury prevention. So if you just do something like running and nothing else at some point you are far more likely than not to get injured to the point that you have to completely stop or switch to something lower impact like cycling. And while cycling is great it doesn't have lots of the benefits of something like strength training so things like your bone health could still rapidly deteriorate as you age. So that means something relatively preventable like a fall leading to a broken hip that you never recover from can still happen to you. But yeah just do what you like and make sure you don't do anything you don't like in the moment
I find it fascinating that people who exercise would want to skip the weights. Strength training makes everything else so much easier, even "doing nothing" (sleep, metabolism, etc.)!
Yes and people don't realize how much it helps with mobility. I used to not really train my legs and would just do lighter weight mobility exercises but I was still very stiff in some movements even after years. It was only when I added in proper weight training that my body started to loosen up. Tight muscles generally are weak muscles after all. Plus it's very rewarding seeing the weights gradually going up and actually seeing your muscles growing, not to mention the dozens of other benefits
I don’t hate weight lifting, but riding my bike is just glorious and fun and has a point (I go to the grocery store and buy groceries with my e-bike, then on multi hour rides up and down hills) so it’s something I actually want to do. Lifting weights feels good when I’m there but it’s a habit I have to build to go somewhere and do a thing. It’s just harder to integrate because it’s not literally just “go outside and hit the trail”.
You can do calisthenics approximately anywhere, no need to go places.
I honestly don't know how people manage without it. Most of us sit all day for work. My body will literally demand that I hit the weight room after a few days, otherwise I'll have trouble sitting for hours, sleeping, etc.
A lot of people just live with that pain but there also are some people that are just lucky and never have any sort of pain from that but then it bites them later because they would be more likely to develop some other condition down the line from never exercising
As a cyclist I feel this. My FIL is a cyclist in his 70s and has lots of issues with his back and shoulders because he just cycles (even to this day doing 1k km per month).
That being said he is significantly healthier than any other 70 year old I know.
I do a lot of strength training now and I feel significantly better.
I did a cycling trip last year with people around that age and they were incredibly strong on the bike but were still relatively frail and had terrible mobility. I would never advise them to stop cycling because they were definitely way way healthier if they weren't doing that but it would really be nice for them to do some lifting for just one or two hours per week