{"id":563183,"date":"2026-05-02T23:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563183\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T23:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:42:25","slug":"stay-well-im-a-woman-in-my-50s-who-lifts-weights-should-i-keep-lifting-increasingly-heavier-weights-into-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563183\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Well: I\u2019m a woman in my 50s who lifts weights. Should I keep lifting increasingly heavier weights into old age?"},"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\">\nStrength training has massive benefits as you age, particularly for women. But is there an age at which you should stop adding weight?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weightlifting can be a great addition to your exercise regime. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8bbce7f6-825a-4d65-88bb-8cefaad28793.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)\">Weightlifting can be a great addition to your exercise regime. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">The fitness industry has come a long way since the idea that women who lift weights will inevitably develop a \u2018manly\u2019 physique was a widely held and accepted opinion.<\/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)\">In today\u2019s world, where an abundance of information can be found at the touch of a finger, and working with a personal trainer is no longer a luxury confined to the rich and famous, weightlifting has become a practice increasingly used by both men and women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strength training has massive benefits as you age, particularly for women. But is there an age at which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[193079,6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-filomena-kaguako","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563183","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=563183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}