If you sit up and sit down regularly, that's a squat. If you pick up heavy stuff off the floor, that's a deadlift. Put something on a shelf, it's a press. Th

If you sit up and sit down regularly, that's a squat. If you pick up heavy stuff off the floor, that's a deadlift. Put something on a shelf, it's a press. These items are less a problem in your 20s, 30s and below, than above. More muscle mass means more hormone production, which otherwise declines with age. And weightlifting leads to higher bone density and stronger tendons. Now are you sure it's not useful, moving a weight for the sake of it?