{"id":600476,"date":"2026-04-13T04:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:29:09","slug":"the-most-valuable-menopause-fitness-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600476\/","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":600477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84,1297],"class_list":{"0":"post-600476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}