{"id":283493,"date":"2026-01-14T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:34:08","slug":"chloe-finds-a-hobby-i-want-to-look-like-shakira-but-the-weighted-ab-machine-feels-like-im-being-caught-in-a-meat-grinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/283493\/","title":{"rendered":"Chlo\u00eb finds a hobby: I want to look like Shakira but the weighted ab machine feels like I\u2019m being caught in a meat grinder"},"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\">It\u2019s back to the gym for Chlo\u00eb McPolin, but this time with a personal trainer and a twist \u2013 namely a \u2028once-a-week, 20-minute workout that gets results&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chlo\u00eb McPolin starts off the new year with some minimal activity training at Fit20 in Blackglen Village Centre, Sandyford. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a744a16b-734d-44eb-aace-76f845af65bc.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)\">Chlo\u00eb McPolin starts off the new year with some minimal activity training at Fit20 in Blackglen Village Centre, Sandyford. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">Hobby comrades, with 2026 well and truly upon us \u2013 and the classic \u2018new year, new me\u2019 mantra being thrown around \u2013 I decided there was nothing more fitting than a return to the gym&#8230; but this time with a personal trainer.<\/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)\">As always, there is a twist. I\u2019d heard talk of a new, minimal-activity, no-sweat fitness regimen that supposedly delivers a full workout in just 20 minutes, once a week. I was mildly sceptical but, as always, curious \u2013 so I decided to give it a whirl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s back to the gym for Chlo\u00eb McPolin, but this time with a personal trainer and a twist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[35045,18,525,135,19,17,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-283493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-chloe-mcpolin","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115892300417713121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283493","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=283493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}