{"id":169642,"date":"2026-06-02T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/what-if-moderate-exercise-is-not-enough-for-middle-aged-women\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:37:39","slug":"what-if-moderate-exercise-is-not-enough-for-middle-aged-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/what-if-moderate-exercise-is-not-enough-for-middle-aged-women\/","title":{"rendered":"What if moderate exercise is not enough for middle-aged women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div end=\"true\" class=\"sc-11rlt5o-4 gGtfNP\">\n<p>If you&#8217;re faithfully recording your 30 minutes of moderate exercise most days of the week, you&#8217;re meeting the weekly recommended amount of cardio. but a <span data-citation-wrapper=\"\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/sports-and-active-living\/articles\/10.3389\/fspor.2026.1829167\/abstract\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/sports-and-active-living\/articles\/10.3389\/fspor.2026.1829167\/abstract\" data-citation-link=\"\">new study<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#citations\" data-citation-number=\"1\">1<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"11\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 11 10\"><path d=\"M10.5616 1.47255C10.7935 1.16327 10.7308 0.724508 10.4216 0.492549C10.1123 0.26059 9.67352 0.323271 9.44156 0.63255L4.41852 7.32996L2.03106 4.54448C1.77947 4.25094 1.33756 4.21694 1.04403 4.46853C0.750497 4.72012 0.716495 5.16203 0.968084 5.45556L3.77335 8.72851C3.81859 8.84955 3.89785 8.9595 4.0089 9.04279C4.09758 9.1093 4.19691 9.15159 4.29895 9.17078C4.51931 9.23643 4.76744 9.19227 4.955 9.03151C5.07764 8.92639 5.15498 8.78804 5.18511 8.64118L10.5616 1.47255Z\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/span>    suggests that for middle-aged women, that standard benchmark is not moving the needle on cardiovascular fitness as much as we have assumed. Here&#8217;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re faithfully recording your 30 minutes of moderate exercise most days of the week, you&#8217;re meeting the weekly recommended amount of cardio. but a new study1 suggests that for middle-aged women, that standard benchmark is not moving the needle on cardiovascular fitness as much as we have assumed. Here&#8217;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[7338,34915,16057,128],"class_list":["post-169642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-meditation","tag-exercise","tag-middleaged","tag-moderate","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169657,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169642\/revisions\/169657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}