Every year the fitness industry changes. New products and ideas lead to new ways for people to get fit. Often the new ways are no better than the old ways, but people do like change. Dr. Walter Thompson from the Department of Kinesiology and Health at Georgia State University has predicted the main trends in fitness for 2013. His report, which was published in ACSM’S Health & Fitness Journal looks at commercial, corporate, medical and community fitness and health. This is the 7th year that the ACSM have prepared this report, and it also looks at the fitness losers, and finds that Pilates and stability balls are continuing to lose favor for the third year in a row. One of the new trends is bodyweight training, something that we at MotleyHealth are great fans of. Maybe the changing economic situation is prompting more people to exercise at home? Dr. Thomson hopes that the report will help fitness professionals make better investment decisions. The report is very clear that it is looking at trends in fitness, and not reporting on fitness fads, which are often short-term activities promoted by commercial interests. The fitness survey looked at 37 possible trends for 2013 and the top 25 trends from previous years. People [...]
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