{"id":3245,"date":"2016-09-23T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2016-09-23T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:00:43","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-65-meeting-2008-federal-guidelines-for-leisure-time-aerobic-and-muscle-strengthening-activities-by-age-and-type-of-activity-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/09\/23\/3245\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 65+ Meeting Federal Guidelines for Leisure-Time Aerobic and Muscle-Strengthening Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6537a9.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/figures\/m6537qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2000\u20132002 to 2013\u20132015, the percentage of older adults who met the 2008 federal guidelines for aerobic activity increased from 35.7% to 42.5% among persons aged 65\u201374 years, from 24.5% to 30.9% among persons aged 75\u201384 years, and from 11.9% to 19.4% among persons aged 85 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage who met the guidelines for muscle strengthening activities increased from 11.7% to 19.3% among those aged 65\u201374 years, from 9.6% to 14.6% among those aged 75\u201384 years, and from 6.5% to 10.4% among those aged 85 years or older.<\/p>\n<p>In both periods, within each age group participation declined with age and was lower for muscle strengthening activities compared with aerobic activities.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6537a9.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6537a9.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2000\u20132002 to 2013\u20132015, the percentage of older adults who met the 2008 federal guidelines for aerobic activity increased from 35.7% to 42.5% among persons aged 65\u201374 years, from 24.5% to 30.9% among persons aged 75\u201384 years, and from 11.9% to 19.4% among persons aged 85 years or older. The percentage who met the guidelines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}