{"id":41561,"date":"2025-09-27T18:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/41561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T18:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T18:58:18","slug":"im-in-my-80s-can-doing-tiny-bursts-of-intense-exercise-every-day-really-add-to-my-life-i-gave-it-a-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/41561\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m in my 80s \u2013 can doing tiny bursts of intense exercise every day really add to my life? I gave it a try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nA new study shows that short, vigorous bursts of physical activity are associated with improved cardio vascular health outcomes in middle-aged women. Marianne Heron put it to the test\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marianne Heron adds weight to her rucksack before rucking. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9bd0b7aa-97b0-4054-ac49-75ec9f769925.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Marianne Heron adds weight to her rucksack before rucking. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For our health\u2019s sake, we are told we should have 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of high intensity exercise a week. For me, finding time for this is a problem, but I know I really need a fitness regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Yet new studies suggest that just a few minutes of short bursts of physical activity daily can improve fitness and health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study shows that short, vigorous bursts of physical activity are associated with improved cardio vascular health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[589,163,85,46,10075],"class_list":{"0":"post-41561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}