{"id":95271,"date":"2025-08-25T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95271\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:01:08","slug":"how-a-wicklow-powerlifting-couple-went-from-casual-gym-goers-to-breaking-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95271\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Wicklow powerlifting couple went from casual gym goers to breaking records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Record-breaking Arklow powerlifter Lindsay Nolan at the WPC European Championships in Poland.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/690885b0-7e84-4faf-87f0-132e96894304.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)\">Record-breaking Arklow powerlifter Lindsay Nolan at the WPC European Championships in Poland.<\/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)\">One year is all it\u2019s taken for Arklow\u2019s Lindsay Nolan to go from a casual gym-goer to breaking Irish powerlifting records on a European stage. In a sport where most athletes take years to perfect their form, the young mother has catapulted herself into the spotlight with a quiet determination that belies the sheer power she brings to the bar.<\/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)\">Initially lifting to lose weight, 28-year-old Lindsay began her fitness journey doing \u201cjust standard gym stuff\u201d before the mother of two discovered the three lifts she loved most \u2013 squat, bench, and deadlift \u2013 were central to the sport of powerlifting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record-breaking Arklow powerlifter Lindsay Nolan at the WPC European Championships in Poland. One year is all it\u2019s taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,55729,407,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-95271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","11":"tag-fitness","12":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95271","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=95271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}