{"id":781750,"date":"2026-09-25T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781750\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:02:09","slug":"why-gen-z-is-swapping-cardio-for-strength-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/781750\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Gen Z is swapping cardio for strength training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Antonia Duffin, 34, started going to the gym, she wanted to lose weight and tone up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It became such a big part of her life that she decided to become a personal trainer alongside her day job in operations for a supermarket chain &#8211; and now runs her own women&#8217;s gym in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some of my clients want to feel stronger, some want to get in shape for a baby and some are struggling with other conditions like endometriosis and want to feel better,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hybrid training, like Hyrox, which is sociable and competitive, seems to have taken over from running on a treadmill or general cardio on a bike, she explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antonia also notes an appetite for more strength training workouts among younger clients, adding: &#8220;I think people are now realising the importance of it &#8211; we&#8217;re preventing osteoporosis and things like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do numbers bear that out? And how are workouts across the UK changing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Antonia Duffin, 34, started going to the gym, she wanted to lose weight and tone up. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-781750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}