I have a genuine fear of lifting weights, and yet I must now do some sort of strength exercise. - eviltoast

Since I was like 12 I was blessed with the genetics of an 80 yo. Having muscle spasms, hernias, and all sorts of bizarre crap. The two times in my life I got into a workout regime things would get progressively better until months down the line, when I’d have to do surgery of some kind, likely because I ‘worked out too much’. Doctors tell me to start lifting weights, but they don’t seem to believe me and simply tell me I’m a male and young and shouldn’t be as frail as I am. No tests in 20+ years have shown anything out of the ordinary, except for whatever problem I developed all of a sudden, so it’s no wonder. I’m afraid that trainers in a gym wouldn’t be any better. Got no idea where to start. Pool workouts with the elderly maybe?