{"id":392481,"date":"2026-01-06T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/392481\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:56:08","slug":"carrickmacross-personal-trainer-on-importance-of-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/392481\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrickmacross personal trainer on importance of fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A county Monaghan personal trainer says the information is there for us to listen to in terms of obesity levels in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, 60% of adults and over 1 in 5 children and young people are living with being overweight or obesity, in Ireland, one of the highest levels in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Christina McMahon who is a former boxer now working in Carrickmacross, says that stress is something that can add to weight gain.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Joe Finnegan show this morning, she said exercise is not only for vanity.<\/p>\n<p>She noted the importance of endorphins released through exercise and believes that &#8220;you&#8217;re only one workout away from a good mood&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Christina added that the &#8220;rat race&#8221; of the world right now can add to stress which leads to weight gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A county Monaghan personal trainer says the information is there for us to listen to in terms of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84],"class_list":["post-392481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}