{"id":603348,"date":"2026-04-13T04:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/603348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:07:09","slug":"the-most-valuable-menopause-fitness-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/603348\/","title":{"rendered":"The most valuable menopause fitness hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I glommed onto a trend that is sweeping women of a certain age in the U.S.: I became a woman who lifts.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, describing myself as such feels like an overstatement of my fitness level. Seven months in and I still can\u2019t do a pull-up while my dumbbell incline press tops out at 18 kg. But I am a regular at a women-inclusive gym that has nary a stair stepper or treadmill and is purely focused on helping women get strong.<\/p>\n<p>This middle-aged woman has perhaps a more modest goal: not to get weak as I grow older. Women\u2019s current obsession with lifting coincides with a push to better meet their needs during the menopause transition. As recently as 2020, less than a quarter of women in midlife were getting in enough strength training. Yet maintaining muscle mass is vital for healthy aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, I glommed onto a trend that is sweeping women of a certain age in the U.S.:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,63,538,137,12632],"class_list":["post-603348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603348","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=603348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}