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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Beddington

The 75 hard challenge has come roaring back - but I have my own self-improvement regime

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If you fail, that’s OK … biscuits in bed. Photograph: Simona Pilolla/Getty Images/iStockphoto

I have a masochistic interest in catchily named social media self-improvement challenges, so I already knew about “75 hard” – 75 days of drinking eight pints of water, doing two 45-minute workouts, eating clean and, endearingly, reading 10 pages of nonfiction – before it made its recent comeback. Paddy McGuinness has reignited interest, crediting the regime started in 2019 by podcaster Andy Frisella for his transformation from a normal soft-bodied human into an uncanny mass of bronzed abs and pecs.

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