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100 percent. The mindset that gaining needs to be sedentary is only for fantasy. Moving a little every day makes everything better. It promotes digestion, favors subcutaneous fat, keeps blood flowing to the genitals, delays diabetes, on and on.
We want to be metabolically healthy obese for as long as possible. At the very least it enables a greater peak size before the health trade offs become too severe. Could be the difference between sustaining an extra hundred pounds or 5-10 years at peak size.
Doesn't have to be crazy. A little zone 2 cardio every day. That might be as simple as walking for thirty minutes after your biggest meal. Bonus of helping things settle and reducing the blood sugar insult.
Lifting a couple times a week could dramatically increase a metabolic health reserves as well. Muscle gives the body something to do with excess blood sugar. IE - it is what delays development of diabetes.
Obesity accelerates aging. Taking care of yourself slows it down. The two can balance each other.