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Not everyone is built the same. I loved exercise as a kid, and as I got older my sleep apnoea stopped me enjoying it. You know that good feeling you get after doing exercise, how your body feels energised and powerful? For a long time, I wouldn't get that, because instead of recovering through sleep, my body was suffocating itself all night and I'd wake up feeling like I'd been beaten up underwater.
I tried and tried, but until I got a diagnosis and therapy, there was no use. I couldn't enjoy it, I just got a headache and muscle cramps and spent the next day or two laid out. You can't get healthier through exercise if your body won't repair the damage the exercise is doing.
Even now, if I have a bad night, exercise is off the table. In fact, I get anhedonia, which is the pathological inability to derive pleasure from anything.
And yeah, I am way more likely to die of a heart attack, but that's not a lifestyle choice. It's just my condition. I was denied life insurance over it.
So maybe next time ask questions before you make judgements.