{"id":60929,"date":"2024-06-19T06:51:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=60929"},"modified":"2024-06-19T06:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T06:51:51","slug":"weight-lifting-is-the-key-to-staying-healthy-in-your-70s-and-beyond-and-just-a-year-of-pumping-iron-can-cut-body-fat-and-boost-strength-in-the-long-term-experts-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/19\/weight-lifting-is-the-key-to-staying-healthy-in-your-70s-and-beyond-and-just-a-year-of-pumping-iron-can-cut-body-fat-and-boost-strength-in-the-long-term-experts-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight-lifting is the key to staying healthy in your 70s and beyond&#8230; and just a year of pumping iron can cut body fat and boost strength in the long term, experts reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30435\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-770x418.png 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-500x272.png 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking-360x196.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/walking.png 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forget lawn bowls or a gentle swim \u2013 pensioners should take up weightlifting if they want a healthy retirement, research suggests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-13543611\/Weight-lifting-key-staying-healthy-70s-just-year-pumping-iron-cut-body-fat-boost-strength-long-term-experts-reveal.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Forget lawn bowls or a gentle swim \u2013 pensioners should take up weightlifting if they want a healthy retirement, research suggests. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/lift-weight-at-70.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60931,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60929\/revisions\/60931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}