{"id":322933,"date":"2026-03-10T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:38:08","slug":"life-extending-exercises-helping-some-people-to-age-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322933\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Life-extending&#8217; exercises helping some people to &#8216;age well&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man is on a mission to make his town the fittest in the country through a health-boosting event aimed at all ages and abilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tim Howe, from Swindon in Wiltshire, founded The Longevity Games, a community-based event which includes six exercises known for their life-extending properties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The games run four times a year, alongside free weekly classes, which include functional exercises that mimic everyday movements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leigh Jackson, 40, from Swindon said taking part has been &#8220;life changing&#8221; for him after his doctor told him he could stop taking a blood pressure medication and had healed a damaged heart valve with the exercise and healthier living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is on a mission to make his town the fittest in the country through a health-boosting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-322933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}