{"id":235371,"date":"2025-12-16T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/235371\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:51:11","slug":"everyones-talking-about-the-great-lock-in-2025-what-exactly-is-it-and-should-i-get-onboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/235371\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s talking about: The Great Lock-in 2025 \u2013 what exactly is it and should I get onboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThis craze can be a great motivator for better eating or exercise habits \u2013 but what does it involve and\u2028is it a healthy approach to self-improvement?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Setting yourself a steps goal from now until New Year's Day is a good target. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e4ed5053-8b54-4eb3-b3ca-a347c66d185d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Setting yourself a steps goal from now until New Year&#8217;s Day is a good target. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You might associate the term \u2018lock-in\u2019 with being locked in a bar after closing time, but the \u2018Great Lock-in 2025\u2019, has nothing to do with a full-on session in any pub. The phase has taken on a whole new \u2013 and some would say more wholesome \u2013 meaning in the run up to New Year\u2019s Eve 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The \u2018Great Lock-in 2025\u2019 is a viral TikTok trend that encourages participants to set goals they want to achieve by the end of this year, and \u2018lock them in\u2019, which is Gen Z slang for committing. It involves setting a goal, committing to new habits, and, crucially, charting your progress in areas like fitness, health, career, finances, and general well-being, online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This craze can be a great motivator for better eating or exercise habits \u2013 but what does it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[18,525,135,19,17,23,6796],"class_list":{"0":"post-235371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-latest-news-ticker","14":"tag-service-journalism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115728160374152999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}