{"id":129517,"date":"2025-09-11T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129517\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:37:07","slug":"the-importance-of-weightlifting-for-over-40s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129517\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of weightlifting for over 40s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a5733001-15fb-4d44-a681-94e7ce5df863.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/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)\">Can weight training reverse bone loss after menopause? Why is resistance training just as important as cardio for over 40s? And what are the go-to exercises to stay strong for life?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mike Murphy, head physiotherapist at Rapid and founder of the Master\u2019s Program Ireland, joins me on this week\u2019s episode of The Real Health podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At the beginning of the interview, I asked the physio about varying exercise. He says, \u201cPeople tell me what I&#8217;m doing in the gym, and I ask, when did you start this? \u2018Oh, 15 years ago and they haven&#8217;t changed the weight or the exercise since. So, I think if you&#8217;re doing the same thing over and over, it&#8217;s better than nothing. But you&#8217;ve probably missed an opportunity with a bit of variation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As we age it\u2019s important to do a range of movements that mirror real life. Murphy explains the core movements he teaches, \u201cI think between a squat and a deadlift, if you do that, we&#8217;re going to tick so many boxes. Number one, they&#8217;re both functional. A deadlift is picking something off the floor. If I want to pick up my grandchild, go on holidays and pick up my suitcase, pick up a pot in the garden, we can start that with a four kilo (weight), and we can progress to a 200 kilo one. Not that anyone will get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You can listen to the full episode below or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can weight training reverse bone loss after menopause? Why is resistance training just as important as cardio for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,12770,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-129517","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-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}