{"id":680634,"date":"2026-06-02T22:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680634\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:11:09","slug":"the-rise-of-functional-fitness-has-led-thousands-of-australians-to-trade-casual-gym-sessions-for-competitive-race-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680634\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of functional fitness has led thousands of Australians to trade casual gym sessions for competitive race events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 3, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Pre-race jitters are mounting for 28-year-old Colleen Issa. All the 4.30am wake-ups, gym sessions and breakfast smoothies are about to pay off as the Wollongong lawyer competes in her first Hyrox competition.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, Issa and her team will race as fast as they can around the Sydney Showgrounds, completing eight one-kilometre runs interspersed with eight strength challenges, from the sled push to the SkiErg.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jun 3, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Pre-race jitters are mounting for 28-year-old Colleen Issa. All the 4.30am wake-ups, gym&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":["post-680634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}