{"id":22500,"date":"2017-12-04T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mioli.wpengine.com\/?p=22500"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:56:39","slug":"can-get-floor-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moveitorloseit.co.uk\/healthy-ageing\/can-get-floor-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you..? Get up from the floor easily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Can you..? Challenges to help you maintain independence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Struggling to get up and down from the floor?<\/p>\n<p>The video at the bottom of this page shows one of the most important exercises that we can do as it can help us get up from the floor with ease. 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Challenges to help you maintain independence Struggling to get up and down from the floor? The video at the bottom of this page shows one of the most important exercises that we can do as it can help us get up from the floor with ease. As we age the big muscles in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise","category-healthy-ageing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.3 (Yoast SEO v26.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Getting Up Easily: Top Exercises For Maintaining Independence - Move it or Lose it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can&#039;t get up and down from the floor? 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