My grandfather lived into his 90s and as far as I know never "exercised". But during a lot of his life he split firewood and worked 8-hour shifts at a factory (before walking home for an hour or so) and did a lot of other things that would be much more vigorous than regular exercise. A different anecdote.

> I know it’s an anecdote, but it’s still data

That's useful if it's about a subject where there's no studies.

But this is whether exercise improves quality of life. There's no shortage of studies about it. Implying that a single anecdote is still data is the bad kind of technically true.

I would link to one of those studies, but there's too many of them and I admit I don't know what to choose.

https://scholar.google.com.sg/scholar?q=physical+activity+qu...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01674...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917...

I’ll find you a couple tens of millions of people who didnt exercise who died well before 98

It's quality of life too. For pretty much every human, finding a way to get outside and breath hard is going to feel good. You're gonna sleep better etc.

Yeah we all know people who drink 3 cokes a day and aren't fat etc... but I know if I drink a lot of beers or cokes or whatever I feel terrible. When I go for hill sprints I feel amazing after.

It's clearly a good habit in a healthy life.

I never exercised for 20 years. My back did hurt so much that I had to roll out of bed every morning. I started exercising two years ago and now this is no longer an issue.

He must have had some kind of exercise, even if it was labeled as "chores" or "job".