>Wear and tear is just part of existence, at least an office job gives you the choice to keep physically healthy without overusing your body.
That entirely depends on time requirements and stress levels. When you need to work 50-60 hours in a week and/or have high stress, exercise may be a 'choice' but there are many who it's not a choice for.
After a long or stressful week, I absolutely cannot get energy and motivation to exercise appropriately. I usually want to do absolutely nothing but relax and do incredibly low mental/physical stress activities. If you have a lot of these sort of weeks, no matter how much of a choice exercise may be, it's not a viable choice for many people. It's not a matter of laziness, when times are relaxed I get a good bit of healthy exercise and living habits in. When stress is high they all suffer.
And you'd think that you "exercise" at work, but no, using the same muscles over and over again for 8-12 hours a day seems to have different effects than exercising properly for 1-2 hours a day.
Exercising in the morning and then going to the job made me feel much better, but after a while I was too tired to wake up.
After a day of mental work, biking, stretching and basic exercises (no weights or anything) is "low effort", sort of, because it's the brain that's tired but the muscles are fine. It's hard to start, but I feel refreshed after ~30 minutes.
But yeah, 50-60 hours a week is just bad, no matter what job it is.
That entirely depends on time requirements and stress levels. When you need to work 50-60 hours in a week and/or have high stress, exercise may be a 'choice' but there are many who it's not a choice for.
After a long or stressful week, I absolutely cannot get energy and motivation to exercise appropriately. I usually want to do absolutely nothing but relax and do incredibly low mental/physical stress activities. If you have a lot of these sort of weeks, no matter how much of a choice exercise may be, it's not a viable choice for many people. It's not a matter of laziness, when times are relaxed I get a good bit of healthy exercise and living habits in. When stress is high they all suffer.