{"id":268229,"date":"2026-01-05T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/268229\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:50:07","slug":"should-you-try-this-fitness-fad-to-get-fit-after-christmas-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/268229\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you try this fitness fad to get fit after Christmas? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">If you are investigating how to embark on some physical renewal this January, you may have come across Hyrox, a fitness craze combining endurance and strength. But what is it? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">By the time Irish Times sportswriter Gordon Manning joined thousands of Lycra clad competitors in the RDS in Ballsbridge to take part in the long booked-out Hyrox Dublin event last year, he had had just six weeks training. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Not ideal when \u2013 in his own words \u2013 he has chicken-wing biceps and uses the weights he bought during Covid to prevent garden furniture from blowing away in storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Hyrox is punishing in its demands. There is a 1km run between each of eight activities. These include 1km of SkiErg pull downs, a 50m push of a sled weighing 152kg, a 50m pull of a 103kg sled, burpees, rowing, a farmer\u2019s carry: sandbag lunges and 100 reps of throwing a 6kg ball against a wall from a squat position. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">After all that, is Hyrox worth the effort? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you are investigating how to embark on some physical renewal this January, you may have come across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[137187,137188,4288,137189,18,525,135,19,17,137190,137191],"class_list":{"0":"post-268229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-an-garda-siochana-roads-policing-and-community-engagement-and","9":"tag-assistant-commissioner-catharina-gunne","10":"tag-ceo","11":"tag-darragh-obrien-t-d","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fitness","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-minister-for-transport","18":"tag-road-safety-authority-on-tuesday-national-slow-down-day"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115842110302158640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268229","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=268229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}