@somanaut
to get back to your original question.
We can only speculate why strength training isn't up there with cardio/endurance type of training when it comes to recommendations for health.
AFAIK heart function and health is still a better indicator for mortality than total body strength. The heart is still the most important muscle in the body. Under optimal conditions you would strengthen your body and your heart, but if you had to chose between the two it would be better to focus on strengthening the heart.
Then we have the huge influence of companies (food and especially pharmaceutical) in politics, which seeps through into everyday life. Maybe that's also a factor in this.
Appropriate for you, but do you really think the recommendation for the average human (average!!!! = not us women and men here on the SF forum) should be able to deadlift 2x your bodyweight?
Sorry, but that's ridiculous.
My 87 years old grandma still lives by herself and does all the things that come with that (cleaning her house, washing, cooking, walking/bike riding to the super market/bank/etc. and all the other stuff you could think of). She raised 4 children, was a full time housewife and most of the times had a job on the side aswell.
She's still free of diseases and is in good shape.
I bet you even at her very best at e.g. age 28 she couldn't deadlift anywhere near 1x bodyweight or do just a single pullup. I even doubt that she was able to do a single proper pushup in her life.
Yes, this is the StrongFirst forum and we all pursue strength, but people need to understand and accept that for the goal of just living a
healthy, enjoyable life physical strength is not needed except for a very bare minimum.
Tim Anderson gives the best definition for strength there is IMO:
and continues...
Most people in the western world (and I say western world, because as sad as it is, but the rest has to think about where to get the next meal or clean water and not about how to be still healthy at 80 years old) just want to be healthy and maybe play some catch or pick-up basketball with their children or grand-children. That's all they want and for that they don't need much strength -> see my granny (and I could give many more examples just in my own family).
So when they go to the doctor to get advise on how to be healthier they probably don't need to hear "get stronger".
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you fall into the "average" category.
EDIT: I feel I need to further clear this up to avoid misunderstandings.
Like always it's about context.
@somanaut asked why physicians and similar professionals don't "prescribe" strength training for health.
So this is the context.
Think about what physicians do. They make (or try to make) unhealthy people healthy.
What they don't do is making healthy people even healthier.
When we talk about standards in this context the standard must reflect what is needed to be just healthy and not what is needed to be "healthier than healthy".
To be healthy you simply don't need a 1.5x, 2x or 2.5xBW deadlift. Having those numbers will make life easier in some ways, but that falls into the "healthier than healthy" category.
The numbers you need to just qualify as healthy are very small.
Don't mistaken what's needed with what makes things easier.
Here's an example:
You are in town A and want to get to town B, which is 5miles away.
What you need is the ability to walk, because that will allow you to get to B.
Having a bike will certainly make it easier to get to B.
Having a car will make it even easier.
A bike or car will make it easier yes, but you still don't need either of them.
The only thing you really need is the ability to walk. That is the standard! Because if you can't walk you won't get there on your own.
So when you talk about 2xBW deadlifts you are in the bike or car category, which is too high for a standard.