http://www.drmcguff.com/need-strength-training/ Want to look better in your clothes (or out of them)? Strength training is the answer. Want to address almost any disease state (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cognitive decline, obesity, metabolic syndrome)? Strength training is the answer. Are you about to enter into chemotherapy? Strength Training will help prevent cachexia and even help defeat your foe. Are you suffering from depression? You guessed it… Strength training. In almost all of these situations, strength training is not just adjunctive; it is the most effective measure you can take, with other measures adding adjunctive to marginal value. It seems that we have evolved from struggle in the constant presence of gravity and our adaptation to this fact have given us a tool to solve almost any problem. When it comes to strength training, I have some definite opinions on the best and most efficient way to perform it, but those opinions are not as strong as my belief that you should perform strength training in almost any form. Muscle has evolved over billions of years and is the most adaptive and plastic tissue there is. As such, strength training can be incredibly simple, precisely because muscle is so complex. There are many different ways to train and skeletal muscle will adapt to them all. My only major objection as to the form of training will be towards those techniques which pose an undue risk of injury. As Arthur Jones once said “It won’t matter if you have 20 inch arms if you injure your back”. Or, as I say in my elevator pitch when people ask me about Ultimate Exercise (my personal training facility), “It’s like Crossfit… without the torn rotator cuff”. In the past 10 years the scientific literature has exploded with studies that uncover benefits to strength training that we never imagined. Much of this linked to myokines, the hormone-like substances released by exercising muscle that signal benefits all the other tissues of the body.
All over the map? Isn't it you that miss the point. They aren't members of a gym. They never saw a barbell. Yes, they are 'active' but ITS THE DIET that's makes up most of the difference! The LACK of calories too. The more you train, the more calories you need. Can't really train your way out of poor nutrition, can you?
Hypothetical: 6' tall 150lbs, exercises and is fit. Starts getting 'serious' about his training. Eating lot more calories, protein, supplements that are touted to build muscle...etc. He's still 6' tall but now 200lbs. 50 more lbs of muscle. My question to you is how much healthier is he now, and where? Can he expect to live longer, and why? Where does the advantage come from all this extra muscle? The okinowns don't need it to live much much much longer and healthier do they?
https://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-blue-zone-loma-linda-20150711-story.html Their is a pattern forming here.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/blue-zones From this article: Exercise Is Built Into Daily Life. let's just look at this one aspect. in addition to their plant diet they are active and engaged in physical labor of some sort 12+ hrs per day.does 1/2 hr of intense physical strength training 3/week give same longevity benefits while living the rest sedentary? I'd love to see the evidence. I don't know, they are different. Make the claim, love to see your evidence. (maybe 1/2 hr 3X/week is better?) we just don't know. we do know that any exercise is better than none.
I'd be surprised strength training plays a bigger role than cardio and diet to fight hypertension, heart disease and diabetes. Watched a few of the bar wars videos on youtube, calisthenics stuff, those guys don't carry too a massive body and I suspect their training help their cardio, but i also follow (much more actually) other strength sports where athletes have massive bodies, and hypertension, cardio vascular disease and diabetes are issues for them. Drugs sure make it worse (not sure diabetes is an issue without drugs) but even without drugs there is probably much to say about which strength trainings and how much muscle mass are good for health. Plus I doubt they beat cardio training when it comes to cardio vascular health. I noticed you do pistol squats and weighted chin ups so you must be more into calisthenics than powerlifting with a rather slim body, but that certainly doesn't define all strength sports.
Let's stop beating around the bush, what is great for more muscle may not be so great for heath or longevity. More muscle becomes the goal, in and of itself. Takes on a life of its own. Now, you are eating for muscle. "I need protein!!!"