{"id":90239,"date":"2026-06-04T05:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90239"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:49:19","slug":"can-two-hours-of-strength-training-a-week-reduce-the-risk-of-dying-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/can-two-hours-of-strength-training-a-week-reduce-the-risk-of-dying-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Can two hours of strength training a week reduce the risk of dying early?"},"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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/103b\/live\/36d46c10-5f1c-11f1-b682-cf91850925ea.jpg\" alt=\"Strock photo shows a person with a flower tattoo on their right shoulder wearing red and pink sportswear pulling down a lateral weights bar in a gym setting.\" width=\"678\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Doing 90 minutes to two hours of weight training per week can greatly reduce the risk of an early death,\u00a0<\/b><a class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" href=\"https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/lookup\/doi\/10.1136\/bjsports-2025-110503\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">according to new research<\/b><span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">,\u00a0external<\/span><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0r2lekenlpo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/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>Doing 90 minutes to two hours of weight training per week can greatly reduce the risk of an early death,\u00a0according to new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/swim-walk-cycle.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90239","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=90239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90240,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90239\/revisions\/90240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}