{"id":457742,"date":"2026-05-24T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/457742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:39:18","slug":"olympic-rower-floats-like-astronaut-to-test-future-space-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/457742\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic rower floats like astronaut to test future space gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much like the toilet which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c87wy05wr4no\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kept playing up during the <\/a> Artemis II mission, this research reminds us even astronauts operating in other worldly conditions are still human.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Our skeletons and muscles are incredible structures that deal with gravity &#8211; even when we simply move our bodies on Earth we are dealing with forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In space we don&#8217;t experience any forces, our muscles, our bones immediately start to diminish because we&#8217;re not being loaded by those forces,&#8221; says Dr Dan Cleather, professor of strength and conditioning at St Mary&#8217;s University who is on the team developing the British equipment, HIFIm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He designed the technology that allows it to monitor how effectively the user is exercising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If astronauts do not do exercise, they also lose coordination and cardiovascular fitness, they become less able to carry out the functional tasks that they&#8217;re required to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there are challenges with exercising in space too, from the weight of current exercise equipment to the limited range of exercises you can do and the time it currently takes astronauts to keep fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Much like the toilet which kept playing up during the Artemis II mission, this research reminds us even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-457742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457742","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=457742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}