{"id":35958,"date":"2019-12-11T10:41:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=35958"},"modified":"2019-12-11T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:41:47","slug":"what-is-all-about-this-fitness-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/what-is-all-about-this-fitness-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"What is this fitness trend all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fitness has seen a particular rise in popularity over the last few years, and everybody seems to be participating in its evolution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 10 million people are a member of a gym in the UK and lots of social media pages are dedicated to gym exercises and a healthy lifestyle. Because going to the gym is not only a sport, it is a way of living.<\/p>\n<p>London has all kinds of gyms spread around the city, from the low fitness market to very expensive places, fitness is deeply anchored.<\/p>\n<p>But what about its popularity among UK students? Can they afford it? Is it about a status? And is this whole trend overrated?<\/p>\n<p>I asked among UK students, their thoughts about this trend and if they themselves were members of a gym club.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/725944453&#8243; params=&#8221;color=#ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;300&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p>Words and audio: Alexandra Girgis<\/p>\n<p>Image: Daniel Apodaca on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitness has seen a particular rise in popularity over the last few years, and everybody seems to be participating in its evolution. Over 10 million people are a member of a gym in the UK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":35959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-uknews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}