{"id":6401,"date":"2022-05-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2022-05-06T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-who-met-the-federal-guidelines-for-muscle-strengthening-physical-activity-by-age-group-and-sex-national-health-interview-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/05\/06\/6401\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226518 Years Who Met the Federal Guidelines for Muscle-Strengthening Physical Activity,\u00a0by Age Group and Sex \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwdev.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7118a6-F.gif?_=74298\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"242\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, 35.2% of men and 26.9% of women aged \u226518 years met the federal guideline for muscle-strengthening physical activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of men who met the muscle-strengthening guideline decreased with age from 44.5% for those aged 18\u201344 years, to 29.9% for those aged 45\u201364 years, and to 22.0% for those aged \u226565 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage also decreased with age among women from 34.1% for those aged 18\u201344 years, to 23.8% for those aged 45\u201364 years, and to 17.2% for those aged \u226565 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men were more likely to have met the muscle-strengthening guideline than women in all age groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7118a6.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7118a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, 35.2% of men and 26.9% of women aged \u226518 years met the federal guideline for muscle-strengthening physical activity. The percentage of men who met the muscle-strengthening guideline decreased with age from 44.5% for those aged 18\u201344 years, to 29.9% for those aged 45\u201364 years, and to 22.0% for those aged \u226565 years. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,53746,28905,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401"}],"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=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}