{"id":296566,"date":"2019-02-20T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=296566"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T05:54:20","slug":"why-middle-aged-men-must-do-40-push-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/296566-why-middle-aged-men-must-do-40-push-ups.html","title":{"rendered":"Why middle-aged men must do 40 push-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/news\/press-releases\/push-up-capacity-cardiovascular-disease-events-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>study<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that middle-aged men who can do over 40 push-ups have a much lower chance of suffering heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers followed 1,100 middle-aged firefighters for over 10 years, tracking how many push-ups they could do &#8211; as well as their performances on treadmills.<\/p>\n<p>The study showed that those who could do over 40 push-ups were 96% less likely to contract heart disease than those who could only do 10 push-ups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings provide evidence that push-up capacity could be an easy, no-cost method to help assess cardiovascular disease risk in almost any setting,&#8221; said lead author Justin Yang.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surprisingly, push-up capacity was more strongly associated with cardiovascular disease risk than the results of submaximal treadmill tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study highlighted, however, that since the test was done on male, active firefighters, the results may not extend to other groups, such as those who are less active.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/296548-tesla-plans-to-produce-500000-vehicles-in-2019.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tesla plans to produce 500,000 vehicles in 2019<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study\u00a0suggests that men who could do over 40 push-ups have a much lower chance of suffering heart disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":296582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[37224,1005,48599],"class_list":["post-296566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-harvard","tag-health","tag-heart-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296580,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296566\/revisions\/296580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}