{"id":248886,"date":"2025-10-29T15:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248886\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:07:13","slug":"chinese-gym-offers-porsche-for-losing-50kg-in-3-months-charges-us1400-entry-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/248886\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese gym offers Porsche for losing 50kg in 3 months, charges US$1,400 entry fee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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

\"TheThe promotion has generated online interest but raised health experts\u2019 concerns about the risks of rapid weight loss. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n

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

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

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

\"TheThe latest Porsche model starts at around US$155,000 in mainland China. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[147702,64,63,147705,15256,512,4690,58297,2479,147704,554,147698,108163,538,147696,14149,147695,32144,137,15353,984,147707,17089,38347,3017,20352,147703,147708,147697,2434,147700,147706,1424,147701,21417,555,147699,12632],"class_list":["post-248886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-amenorrhoea","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-binzhou","tag-challenge","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-netizens","tag-dangerous","tag-dr-zeng","tag-exercise","tag-extreme-weight-loss","tag-feedback","tag-fitness","tag-gimmicks","tag-gym","tag-gymnasiums","tag-hair-loss","tag-health","tag-healthy-eating","tag-healthy-lifestyle","tag-hormonal-imbalances","tag-lose-weight","tag-members","tag-men","tag-muscle-loss","tag-porsche-panamera","tag-pu-yansong","tag-registrations","tag-running","tag-shaanxi-provincial-peoples-hospital","tag-shandong-province","tag-walking","tag-wang","tag-weibo","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-loss-challenge","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}