{"id":2012,"date":"2016-07-28T19:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2016-07-29T04:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:56:21","slug":"fitness-conquers-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Conquers All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150127.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2013\" \/><\/a>Retirement Myth #4: Physical fitness is less helpful (and possible) as we age.<\/p>\n<p>While leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, on March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by would-be-assassin John Hinckley Jr. Quick medical attention saved Reagan\u2019s life. About eight months later, I watched on TV as he talked to reporters about his rehab.<\/p>\n<p>Reagan was showing off his biceps, which, due to prescribed resistance training (pumping iron), had grown dramatically. Our 40th president was nearing his 71st birthday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Rowe, besides increasing muscle size and strength, resistance exercises \u201calso enhance bone strength, limiting the risk of osteoporosis and fractures of the hip, spine and wrist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowe says that physical activity (including some form of  aerobic like a brisk walk) is \u201cthe single most important thing an older person can do to remain healthy.\u201d  It even negates other risk factors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most fit people, even if they smoke or have high blood pressure, are still at lower risk of death than nonsmokers with normal blood pressures who are couch potatoes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Maybe I have my answer to yesterday\u2019s dilemma (see Retirement Myth #3). A half order of Dyer\u2019s onion rings=two more miles on the bicycle, exactly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retirement Myth #4: Physical fitness is less helpful (and possible) as we age. While leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, on March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by would-be-assassin John Hinckley Jr. Quick medical attention saved Reagan\u2019s life. About eight months later, I watched on TV as he talked to reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}