{"id":28950,"date":"2023-10-31T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28950"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T12:57:27","slug":"how-long-can-you-stand-on-one-leg-how-often-should-you-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28950","title":{"rendered":"How long can you stand on one leg? How often should you try?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the last few weeks, three different friends have advocated to me the health benefits of standing on one leg, especially if one is a senior citizen. So I&#8217;ve decided to give it a go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of my friends do it while brushing their teeth. I don&#8217;t know how they manage this. I do it as the first thing of the day and I do it each day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try to achieve 60 seconds for each leg but, so far, I can only achieve this by &#8211; several times in that minute &#8211; touching the ground with my other leg or touching the wall with a hand. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get better as my muscles develop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read a short piece on the health benefits of this routine, you&#8217;ll find one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensorganic.co.uk\/blogs\/natural-news\/the-power-of-balance-the-surprising-benefits-of-standing-on-one-leg\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.greensorganic.co.uk\/blogs\/natural-news\/the-power-of-balance-the-surprising-benefits-of-standing-on-one-leg\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few weeks, three different friends have advocated to me the health benefits of standing on one leg, especially if one is a senior citizen. So I&#8217;ve decided to give it a go. A couple of my friends do it while brushing their teeth. I don&#8217;t know how they manage this. I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28951,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950\/revisions\/28951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}