[jasomill]

In a world where trainees are sent directly from the gym to the front lines to fight in power armor against power armor-equipped opponents, they probably should.

[andrewflnr]

If that was the world you lived in, would you go to the gym to learn it?

The question is, what are you trying to learn? There are still going to be problems "power armor" can't solve, like what to move where.