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The body really does not care how you categorise movement or activity. It gets the job done. And if the job is strenuous, it adapts and becomes better suited to getting the job done.
My basic grouse is compartmentalising specific adaptations behind marketing categories.
You can get plenty of flexibility, mobility and stability with deep single leg squats. So that’s strength training producing that.
You can get very strong traps and neck muscles with headstand work. That’s a pattern we traditionally associate with yoga.
Your cardio-vascular recovery capacity is significantly boosted by circuit training. That’s strength training producing an adaptation we think of as cardio.
And the calf muscles on someone who is terrific at jump rope or sprint cycling? That’s cardio producing an adaptation we think of as strength.
Adaptations don’t fall neatly into the compartments we assign to them as activity categories.
Real world adaptations are messy, diverse and rarely linear.
Embracing that, and deconstructing patterns, activity and movement, helps us understand what we gain from doing certain movements in different doses.