This man learned to bounce away the bulge at a Dublin fitness class
Irish men are currently rolling up the obesity charts and are on course to be the fattest in Europe by 2030. 47% of those weighed by Operation Transformation for their Know Your Numbers campaign were found to be overweight. 34% were obese. And lads who tick my age box, (30+) are among those most at risk of suffering long-term physical and mental problems directly related to our failure to engage in any exercise.
Putting down the sliotars and picking up the pints in our early 20s, exercise becomes less of a priority as personal and professional responsibilities take hold. For most of our father’s generation, physical labour was a daily fact of their working lives. We spend ours on our phones, clattering on computers and eating huge portions of processed foods.
