IRC barbell strength training injury rates are lower than most activities for CASUAL practitioners but explodes (like most sports) when progress towards relativ

IRC barbell strength training injury rates are lower than most activities for CASUAL practitioners but explodes (like most sports) when progress towards relatively advanced levels, which IMO, and in agreement with you, is probably counter productive for most people. I can't seem to find the routines NASA gives astronauts on ISS to prevent muscle atrophy and maintain bone density, but it was something stupid easy (as in achievable for gen pop) like 10s with around body weight on squats / deadlifts on their fancy ARED lifting machine, and 50-75% for overhead / bench, with the explict goal of minimizing injury chance. But they do exercise very frequently, almost everyday since no gravity, but I think most people are fine with doing even a reduced volume version a couple times a week. Issue with bodyweight activities, is they're pretty poor for developing and maintaining lower body strength, and that (i.e broken hips) is one of the top reasons people break themselves in later life. It doesn't take much for one badly leveraged move climbing/gymastics/martial arts to enter snap city. Especially with explosive concentric components, i.e. something like depth jump is considered extremely high risk injury exercise. There's a lot of bodyweight movements especially in context of activities where one can over-exert/commit. Modest weight training is calibrated and repeatable and less risky in that sense.