{"id":77090,"date":"2025-07-04T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77090"},"modified":"2025-07-04T21:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:58:51","slug":"why-we-should-lift-heavy-as-we-get-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/04\/why-we-should-lift-heavy-as-we-get-older\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we should \u2018lift heavy\u2019 as we get older"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1sUXkC.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Quiet revolution: lifting weights can improve your well-being without turning you into a bulging bodybuilder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Strength is cool. However sophisticated we are, the moment we\u2019re passed\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health-fitness\/conditions\/ageing\/jam-jar-grip-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">a jar of jam<\/a> and asked to unscrew a reluctant lid, we give our all\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/why-we-should-lift-heavy-as-we-get-older\/ar-AA1sUQH0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=f7f691dfab7c4f03b7da148b018701c3&amp;ei=115\">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>Strength is cool. However sophisticated we are, the moment we\u2019re passed\u00a0a jar of jam and asked to unscrew a reluctant lid, we&#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-77090","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\/77090","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=77090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77091,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77090\/revisions\/77091"}],"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=77090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}