Not sure. Do they weigh anything?
I don’t lift weights because I have yet to find any weights that needed lifting. If I ever do, I’ll hire someone to lift them.
Because access needs to be as convenient as possible or I won’t stick with it. I don’t want to join a public gym for various reasons, I don’t have room at home (yet), and the one that fit my bill the most has had access closed to me since the start of the pandemic.
Exercising might make your children and grandchildren stronger?
I lift 60 pound bags of concrete at work. It’s not easy, so I’m impressed that you lifted 75 pound bags.
I used to lift quite a bit. When fighting competitively, I put on 30# of muscle. But that was to compete in the unlimited heavyweight division where I just barely passed the minimum weight.
I’m not sure I’ve lifted a weight since I stopped fighting 20 yrs ago. I never enjoyed lifting - just the result. Now that I am not competitive in sport, I have less need for that strength. I do push-ups and crunches daily - and bike quite a bit - which keeps me fit enough for household chores. Yes, as I get older (nearly 62) I realize I ought to do some work - even if with light weights. Maybe I will start some day. But like I said - I just don’t like lifting weights.
Only four of them. But i was astonished how much easier they were to list than the 94 pound bags, which i could only drag.
I would have trained with the 75lb sacks for awhile to work my way up to the 94-pounders.
I find walking and lifting weights to be the perfect (and I guess, complete) combination of exercises for me personally. I feel much better when I do both but walking is an every day thing.
If you’re regularly lifting your own body weight with pushups and so forth, then AFAICT you’re getting all the benefits associated with resistance training, as the OP mentioned in a later post.
The “gym rat” goals of maximizing strength, bulking up significantly, and so on don’t really have that much in common with the basic health benefits of resistance training. You can get the health bennies with a comparatively small amount of regular moderate activities around the house.
I started with Kettlebells in February. It has made a big difference in my posture and my ability to do ADLs, like carry my 36-lb son around. I don’t have back pain anymore.
Sometimes, I find it really hard to get started on a strength workout. I find it much easier to just go outside for a run. With running you don’t know what you’ve gotten yourself into at first. It’s an easy transition. I find the transition to lifting much more difficult. It’s fine once I get started, but those first few sets… oof.
So I had to figure out how to convince myself to lift weights, not just in the long term but in the moment, when I don’t wanna. I think Winter is going to help me out with this. “You can either hit the weights, or go run in the freezing cold.”
I got the opportunity to try this method out yesterday, when it was 38F outside, and by gum, it worked! I felt lucky to be lifting weights! Imagine how much more enticing it will be in December.
I didn’t really start this thread to personally motivate people, just link studies - good and bad - about my hobby.
But well done! Hopefully your son will walk more too. (If he is around four and fairly healthy).
Haha. He’s 2.5. He’s very tall for his age. I don’t have to lift him that often, but when I do, the strength training makes a huge difference.
I don’t hoist because the process bores me to death. I’m good with swinging a hammer or an axe, helping friends move, going for long walks to someplace, etc. Not averse to physical exertion at all. But any time I’ve tried to work out for the sake of working out I have this nagging voice in the back of my head enquiring as to when I became a hamster on a wheel.
I am just the opposite. I love the kettlebell and club workouts I do because they have set times, neither of which are very long. It’s easy to get motivated when the end is right there.
Buzz, buzz…
I remember reading an essay once where one character said something like, “Lifting weights is like loading a truck that isn’t there.”
And I remember one time my wife was talking to a stone mason. She noticed how ripped he was and asked if he lifted weights. Probably the most impressive scoffing I ever witnessed IRL. 
I’ve been growing bored with my strength routine. I’ve decided to try rucking for a while, as that’s a great, low-impact way to build strength and you get to walk around outside if you like. Apparently rucking is a whole movement, with special events and equipment, but probably anyone could start by throwing some weight in a backpack and going for a walk.
There’s a reason walking around with a bunch of weight on your back is so central to military conditioning.
I got the idea from a book called The Comfort Crisis which is mostly about a guy who spent 40 days hunting Caribou in the Alaskan tundra. They hauled the Caribou miles uphill back to camp in 100 pound chunks. I wouldn’t go that extreme, but I do think there’s an argument to be made that we need to test our limits once in a while.
Maybe you don’t like to lift weights. Found exercise - running for the bus, climbing stairs, walking - provides real benefits.
I get enough exercise at work. I sling around sheets of 3/4" plywood (about 75#) and the various things I make from them. Occasionally, I’ll turn on the pedometer function of my phone to track a day’s walk. Usually somewhere around 5 miles a day.