Regardless of your fitness goals, you should be strength training.
There is simply no other type of exercise that benefits your mental, physical, and overall health like strength training. Not only do you develop mental strength, you also realize how much you are physically capable of. Not to mention that challenging your body is a great way to build character and improve your health overall.

How many times have you been able to get through a tough situation by thinking back to a previous experience?

Maybe by reminding yourself, “If I can get through that, I can surely get through this.”? Strength training allows you to have that ability readily available. As you overcome the initial fatigue, you learn the depth of your own drive and to persevere and overcome failure. We all have rough days in life but those are the same days in which we learn the most about ourselves and our strengths as individuals.

How many people have you met that suffer from body issues or lack of confidence in general?

Strength training also develops self-confidence. Having physical strength, knowing that you can easily move weight or squat more than your own body weight, is reassuring and has a massively positive effect on your personal outlook.

In short, strength training should be apart of your plan regardless of your fitness goals. Strength training helps you lose fat, build muscle, improve endurance, alleviate chronic aches and pains, prevent injury, raise metabolism, fight disease (particularly cancer and diabetes), improve endocrine function, increase bone density, and lead to world peace (maybe). In terms of physical benefits, nothing else comes close.

-Scott