{"id":214596,"date":"2025-10-15T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214596\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:39:12","slug":"fitness-levels-fall-for-women-in-their-30s-and-40s-compared-to-1998-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214596\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness levels fall for women in their 30s and 40s compared to 1998, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The physical fitness levels of women in their 30s and 40s declined in 2024 compared to 1998 levels as more women are busy working and\/or raising children, according to a recent survey released by the Sports Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The annual survey, which was released Sunday, is on a five-level scale from A to E, with A being the highest. Women ages 35 to 39 who scored level C and higher declined from close to 70% in 1998 to 53% in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said it will expand employer and community-based programs to get more women of the age group moving and fund municipal efforts to build daily exercise habits, as well as promote sports programs in corporate spheres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The physical fitness levels of women in their 30s and 40s declined in 2024 compared to 1998 levels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,63,538,137,85,131571,12632],"class_list":["post-214596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-sports","tag-sports-agency","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}