A thing I realized recently is that the first 10-15 minutes of exercise per day are not for fitness, but for health. If you don't even do that, you're just gett

A thing I realized recently is that the first 10-15 minutes of exercise per day are not for fitness, but for health. If you don't even do that, you're just getting less and less healthy. This also explains the different advice we see here on cardio vs weights. For those first 10 minutes or so you're probably better off with cardio - you want a systemic exercise. After that, resistance training all the way. Also if you do enough resistance training (say 20-30 minutes per day or more), you can skip cardio altogether.