{"id":543417,"date":"2026-07-10T21:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:54:12","slug":"study-links-strength-training-to-longer-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543417\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Links Strength Training To Longer Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 10 July 2026 12:20\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5e9db53194260.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Study shows physical exercise can help lower the risk of death.\n        <\/p>\n<p>90-120 minutes of weekly strength training can help lower the risk of death from diseases.<\/p>\n<p>A US study found weekly strength training was linked to a 13% lower risk of death overall, a 19% lower risk of cardiovascular death, and a 27% lower risk of neurological disease-related death, including dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical Exercise Physiologist and founder of EduFit, Laois&#8217; Dr Diane Cooper says regular training brings a wide range of benefits:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 10 July 2026 12:20 Study shows physical exercise can help lower the risk of death. 90-120 minutes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3279,319,499,103,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-543417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}