Instead, choose to consider them an exhortation for your benefit.

If it makes you feel any better, remember that a lot of these people would be preaching Anglicanism in Hawaii if they'd been born 150 years ago.

I didn't realize the empirical fact that working out is good for you is comparable to proselytizing a religion to indigenous peoples.

What is rude about them?

It's really just the general prescriptivism of the workout-crowd that gets me.

I'm quite capable of handling maintenance chores on my own mind & body, thank you, but this newfangled evangelism keeps coming at me from all angles.

Working out is good for you. That's an empirical fact. I don't think it does anyone any favors to pretend that it's not. Obviously if you have injuries you should modify and scale workouts appropriately. But not working out is making a conscious choice to be less healthy. That's fine if that's where your priorities lie, but it's still a conscious choice to be less healthy, not simply a difference of opinion. It's much closer to choosing to smoke cigarettes than it is choosing to use a different text editor.

I get that. I try not to push people that don't actually want a push. And I know people that get really turned off of a thing if people are too enthusiastic about it or pushing it too hard at them. Sometimes I feel it too.

I feel it is pretty common in tech, especially as people are used to pitching their "good" or "correct" solutions to people bringing up a problem.