{"id":341004,"date":"2025-10-29T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/341004\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:21:15","slug":"chinese-gym-offers-porsche-for-losing-50kg-in-3-months-charges-us1400-entry-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/341004\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese gym offers Porsche for losing 50kg in 3 months, charges US$1,400 entry fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Chinese gym has recently launched a controversial weight-loss challenge, offering a luxury car as a reward to anyone who successfully loses 50kg in three months.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While the promotion has garnered significant online interest, it has also raised serious concerns among health experts regarding the dangers of extreme weight loss in a short time frame.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On October 23, a fitness training centre in Binzhou, Shandong province, northern China, announced the bold weight-loss challenge online, which quickly attracted major attention.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The promotion has generated online interest but raised health experts\u2019 concerns about the risks of rapid weight loss. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0e087f5f-bfc6-4e9d-8e15-6eae123105c1_df3db29e.jpg\" title=\"The promotion has generated online interest but raised health experts\u2019 concerns about the risks of rapid weight loss. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>The promotion has generated online interest but raised health experts\u2019 concerns about the risks of rapid weight loss. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to the promotional poster, the gym promised a luxury Porsche Panamera as a prize to anyone who can lose 50kg within three months. The latest Porsche model from this product line has an official starting price of around 1.1 million yuan (US$155,000) in mainland China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A fitness coach, surnamed Wang, confirmed to Xiang Yang Video that the campaign is legitimate, stating: \u201cThe challenge is real and already underway, and registration will close once we reach 30 participants. So far, around seven or eight people have signed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang noted that the registration fee is 10,000 yuan (US$1,400), which covers meals and accommodation in a fully enclosed training environment with shared rooms. However, the specific details of the training regimen, dietary plans and criteria for achieving the weight loss target remain undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The latest Porsche model starts at around US$155,000 in mainland China. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00d31e79-1794-4b48-83d5-c3bbf83fc6b0_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"The latest Porsche model starts at around US$155,000 in mainland China. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>The latest Porsche model starts at around US$155,000 in mainland China. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang also mentioned that the Porsche being offered belongs to the gym owner and is a used 2020 model that he has driven for several years, not a new car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese gym has recently launched a controversial weight-loss challenge, offering a luxury car as a reward to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":341005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[168003,168006,56699,74,22165,168010,6158,168005,1728,167999,132332,1198,167997,13160,167996,4633,210,6330,3264,168008,73357,57434,5976,2235,168004,168009,167998,1236,168001,168007,67,132,68,1560,168002,60274,428,168000,16966],"class_list":{"0":"post-341004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-amenorrhoea","9":"tag-binzhou","10":"tag-challenge","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-chinese","13":"tag-chinese-netizens","14":"tag-dangerous","15":"tag-dr-zeng","16":"tag-exercise","17":"tag-extreme-weight-loss","18":"tag-feedback","19":"tag-fitness","20":"tag-gimmicks","21":"tag-gym","22":"tag-gymnasiums","23":"tag-hair-loss","24":"tag-health","25":"tag-healthy-eating","26":"tag-healthy-lifestyle","27":"tag-hormonal-imbalances","28":"tag-lose-weight","29":"tag-members","30":"tag-men","31":"tag-muscle-loss","32":"tag-porsche-panamera","33":"tag-pu-yansong","34":"tag-registrations","35":"tag-running","36":"tag-shaanxi-provincial-peoples-hospital","37":"tag-shandong-province","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-unitedstates","40":"tag-us","41":"tag-walking","42":"tag-wang","43":"tag-weibo","44":"tag-weight-loss","45":"tag-weight-loss-challenge","46":"tag-women"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}