Jan de Hoop has found a new calling six months after his departure from RTL Breakfast News. In his latest vlog, he takes the first step towards a career as a fitfluencer. “How!”
It’s never too late to pursue a washboard. The 68-year-old Jan de Hoop goes for the ax and has one in the attic home gym bought from the expensive Technogym brand. The cost of this Unica model? An unmissable one 6,250 euros. The RTL News celebrity talks about it in his own vlog series on Youtube.
Gym in the attic
Jan is already having fun when the device is not even in the house yet. “There will be a device with which you can push, pull and hang on to grow muscles,” it sounds. “The challenge is to get that whole device up. He has to go up a small spiral staircase to the attic. One hundred kilos is the back piece and eighty kilos the front piece!”
In the end, you can see how two delivery men lift the colossus up. Jan: “Fortunately, there is also a comfortable seat in the attic, because just looking at that lugging is already very tiring.”
Swimming trunks
Once the thing is up, Jan emerges in his sportiest outfit: a salmon colored polo, blue swimming trunks and slippers. “Take off the slippers, loosen the brakes and on to the Men’s Health in about five years!” he jokes.
Jan is immediately making progress. “Look how smoothly that goes,” he says enthusiastically. “I have to keep my back against it, I think.”
It is noticeable that Jan is doing his best. “Wow”, it sounds. And: “Phew.”
“Look at those biceps!”
It’s all still taking some getting used to for Jan. “I do an exercise for the chest with a low weight, because otherwise I break in half. Arie Boomsma is laughing his ass off, but you have to start small.”
Then he starts training his biceps. “This one seems to be for the chest. First the instructor said a little bit and then… Look at those biceps going wild! This is sports, this is endurance.”
After a few minutes he gives up again. “So, take a shower, then lie down and then have a bite to eat, I think.”
Fitboy Jan
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