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I had hit similar issues with weight lifting and climbing. As a beginner I adopted approach of others - keep pushing yourself, grow. I had frequent minor injuri

I had hit similar issues with weight lifting and climbing. As a beginner I adopted approach of others - keep pushing yourself, grow. I had frequent minor injuries, and it was very frustrating to stop for few weeks and lose gains from months of efforts. This gets worse with age, and earlier than you think. These days, I just keep my stable set of weights, which are rather light compared to what I used to do, but I increased repetitions to at least 2x. Didn't have any injury anymore. Also, if you are smart you eventually realize huge muscles are outright stupid for real life, extremely hard o get to and maintain, especially without ruining your body, and completely impractical for any sport. Long term you end up exactly opposite than healthy. Same for climbing, I climb easier routes but have always tremendous fun, I simply love climbing and whole ballet on a vertical rockface, especially on real rock out there in the nature. Great for health, longevity, happiness, but also attractive to other sex can be a bit of muscle and lean. Your personality, approach to life etc. makes much more impression and gets you stable long term relationships easier if that's the motivation. Oh and I do similar but a bit shorter walks, earplugs in my ears, walking around wineyards around us in almost complete darkness, just moon and few villages far away. Sometimes stoned :) Since I love them I don't even think about them as a workout, rather head cleanup, connecting with nature. Just my 2 cents.

onetimeuse92304 3y ago
Muscle mass, especially if it includes a lot of actually useful muscles and not just the ones that present best, is very good to have especially once your muscle mass starts declining inevitably later in life. Also, along with the muscle usually follow stronger tendons, joints and bones. All those develop through loading. Good core muscles will protect against a lot of injuries and will make you much less fragile. Both physically and chemically (for example, by being able to buffer blood sugar). The stronger the muscle, tendons, joints and bones you start with, the longer you will enjoy not being fragile. But I do agree you can reach the point of diminishing returns very quickly and focusing on muscle doesn't make sense assuming you spend effort on other healthy activities like low intensity aerobic exercise, high intensity aerobic exercise, flexibility, etc. I do weight lifting and calisthenics session, once a week, to strengthen my muscles, tendons and joints to help with my running and from what I researched it should be enough to greatly reduce my chance of running injuries.

onetimeuse92304 3y ago

Muscle mass, especially if it includes a lot of actually useful muscles and not just the ones that present best, is very good to have especially once your muscle mass starts declining inevitably later in life. Also, along with the muscle usually follow stronger tendons, joints and bones. All those develop through loading. Good core muscles will protect against a lot of injuries and will make you much less fragile. Both physically and chemically (for example, by being able to buffer blood sugar). The stronger the muscle, tendons, joints and bones you start with, the longer you will enjoy not being fragile. But I do agree you can reach the point of diminishing returns very quickly and focusing on muscle doesn't make sense assuming you spend effort on other healthy activities like low intensity aerobic exercise, high intensity aerobic exercise, flexibility, etc. I do weight lifting and calisthenics session, once a week, to strengthen my muscles, tendons and joints to help with my running and from what I researched it should be enough to greatly reduce my chance of running injuries.