{"id":345562,"date":"2026-03-24T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345562\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:59:09","slug":"scottish-gran-breaks-hyrox-fitness-record-after-three-hip-replacements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345562\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish gran breaks Hyrox fitness record after three hip replacements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The word &#8220;Hyrox&#8221; does not actually stand for anything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Held in large venues around the world throughout the year, it involves a gruelling circuit of eight strength-based exercise stations with a one-kilometre run between each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Competitors ski, push and pull sleds, row, burpee, lunge and throw heavy medicine balls at a target in an effort to finish in the fastest time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the mixed doubles event, women must lift the same weights as the men &#8211; another hurdle Carole had to overcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She completed her first Hyrox with her son Stuart in just over 90 minutes before taking on the challenge on her own at London&#8217;s Excel arena. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The word &#8220;Hyrox&#8221; does not actually stand for anything. Held in large venues around the world throughout the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-345562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}