I started weight lifting because it drastically improves my sleep. Now I feel like absolute crap if I skip even a single day of lifting. It’s pretty remarkable

I started weight lifting because it drastically improves my sleep. Now I feel like absolute crap if I skip even a single day of lifting. It’s pretty remarkable - clearly the body expects and maybe needs some kind of physical stresses that are missing from my day-to-day routine outside of lifting. There are essentially no downsides except a time expenditure and increased risk of lifting related injuries - vastly outweighed by the benefits (health, strength, aesthetics). The tricky part is just doing it regularly enough at first that your body and mind figure out that these stresses are so good for you, and then (at least for me) it’s pretty self-sustaining.