Reply To: Lifting Weights On Shabbos

@mother in israel what you said that its refuah i doubt it. Refuah means to cure someone who is sick. Lifting weights is only building muscle. It is not a cure for anything in any way. It is not refuah.

And what you said about uvdah dchol, can you explain to me what makes it uvdah dchol? I mean, if lifting weights is indeed mutar on shabbos, then why is it any more uvdah dchol than uvdah dshabbos?

Anyway, even though i strongly suspect that it is mutar meikar didinah, I may still refrain from doing it for the simple reason that it doesn’t feel ‘shabbosdik’.