Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
Thinking more about the OP's question: My wife had an aunt who owned her two-story house. She lived on the second floor, rented out the first floor. She had a narrow winding staircase up to her door, quite tricky, but that was a good thing. She had to carry groceries, etc., up those stairs. Her husband was worthless. The stairs made a difference. However she got bad ankles, probably from not walking enough. She loved to shop, so she got a prescription for 6 weeks of therapy, fixed her right up, but she knew she'd deteriorate. We advised her to join a gym and she did. She hired a coach and went at it. She loved it, flipping truck tires, deadlifting 90#, etc. Fixed her right up again. We noticed how much help having stairs had been to her, so when we retired from boatbuilding, rather than sell the shop and buy a house, we kept the shop with our upstairs apartment, which had an upstairs bedroom and living room, etc. I bet we go up and down those stairs like 100 times a day. It's noticeable. So many of our friends made the mistake of moving into single level houses as they aged.
I went out for the football team back in school.decades ago. I was just a middling average guy, not a great athlete and not very big. Back then weightlifting wasn’t a big thing. I started doing it , and somehow I actually got strong . Suddenly I found myself 40 pounds heavier , and on the offensive Line, and I was driving people way off the line and could get off the snap quickly. To add to the comedy, I was actually the fastest lineman on the team. And being scholarly I picked up little things like how my opponents positioned their hands and feet and l could figure out what the scheme was. Guys who used to laugh at me were scared of me. Without lifting I would have been the water boy.
To this day it’s an habit, but I certainly use less weight now