{"id":233969,"date":"2026-01-08T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233969\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:30:11","slug":"adrian-weckler-the-best-fitness-gadgets-for-quitters-designed-to-be-drawer-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233969\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: The best fitness gadgets for quitters \u2013 designed to be drawer-proof"},"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\">Stylish tech gives normal people a fighting chance of sticking with their resolution to get fit\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Apple Watch SE 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/226956ca-ec72-4c7a-bf49-c930e79a2b3c.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)\">Apple Watch SE 3<\/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)\">January can be the worst time to get a fitness gadget. The fantasy of how you want to see yourself \u2013 jogging by a river or doing yoga atop an Atlantic cliff \u2013 can lure you into buying over-complicated, expensive wearables that end up in a drawer within a few weeks.<\/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)\">Over the coming days and weeks, you\u2019ll see ads for smart water bottles, stress headbands, biofeedback gadgets, LED workout tiles and a gazillion other doo-dahs that promise to put you in charge of mastering your physique and \u201cwellness\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stylish tech gives normal people a fighting chance of sticking with their resolution to get fit Apple Watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8819,32880,61,60,62931,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-233969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-apple-company","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-new-year","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}