{"id":14853,"date":"2024-05-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=14853"},"modified":"2024-05-06T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:56:48","slug":"a-fitness-instructor-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2024\/05\/07\/a-fitness-instructor-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fitness Instructor at 71\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"873\" src=\"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/IMG_5943-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/IMG_5943-copy-2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/IMG_5943-copy-2-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His second act: Following his retirement from medical equipment sales, Bill Konowitz \u201975 knew he needed to find a hobby to get him out of the house. A longtime physical exercise advocate, he signed up for an aerobics class at his local YMCA \u2014 and was immediately hooked. Two years later, he became a certified fitness instructor and, more recently, was featured in <em>Men\u2019s Health<\/em>. \u201cExercise has the greatest power in determining how we will live out the rest of our lives,\u201d Konowitz told the platform ROAR Forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His second act: Following his retirement from medical equipment sales, Bill Konowitz \u201975 knew he needed to find a hobby to get him out of the house. A longtime physical exercise advocate, he signed up for an aerobics class at his local YMCA \u2014 and was immediately hooked. Two years later, he became a certified<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":14856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[354,2263,1385,68,1309,2262,1553],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-14853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni-spotlights","category-alumni-updates","tag-alumni","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-healthy-lifestyle","tag-hobby","tag-retirement"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-3Rz","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/IMG_5943-copy-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15154,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14853\/revisions\/15154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14853"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}