{"id":180381,"date":"2024-01-13T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T08:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/to-avoid-the-worst-effects-of-aging-we-might-need-to-exercise-harder-than-we-thought"},"modified":"2024-01-13T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T08:23:20","slug":"to-avoid-the-worst-effects-of-aging-we-might-need-to-exercise-harder-than-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/to-avoid-the-worst-effects-of-aging-we-might-need-to-exercise-harder-than-we-thought","title":{"rendered":"To avoid the worst effects of aging, we might need to exercise harder than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-avoid-the-worst-effects-of-aging-we-might-need-to-exercise-harder-than-we-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those hoping to avoid one of the worst side effects of aging\u2014bone, joint and muscle pain that doesn\u2019t go away\u2014might need to exercise a lot harder and more often than previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, only high levels of activity at least once a week\u2014playing tennis, running, swimming, digging with a spade, or doing hard physical labor as part of your job\u2014appears to help ward off chronic musculoskeletal pain in the long-term.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by Dr. Nils Niederstrasser at the University of Portsmouth, examined the data of 5,802 people aged 50 or more over ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those hoping to avoid one of the worst side effects of aging\u2014bone, joint and muscle pain that doesn\u2019t go away\u2014might need to exercise a lot harder and more often than previously believed. According to a new study, only high levels of activity at least once a week\u2014playing tennis, running, swimming, digging with a spade, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}