A Fitter Life

1. Global Wellness and Longevity

It’s not only about training to look good but to live well. Exercise for longevity, including training mobility and movement as well as the basics of strength training and cardiovascular endurance for overall wellness. As the population ages, the demand and creation of programmes to train not only for goal-specific targets, but for longevity is increasing in popularity.

2. Outdoor Training Facilities

The covid era has left people wanting to train in the open air, and many gyms and studios have heard their clients’ needs by adding open-air training areas where their clients can get all the benefits of professional indoor equipment, but outdoors! Since we are in a place where we can live outdoors year-round, why not train outdoors yearround too? Is there anything better than hitting a deadlifting PR while the sun shines on your face?

3. Boutique Fitness Studios

People are migrating from the big box gyms to boutique studios where they will generally find a deeper sense of community and bespoke training protocols. They are willing to pay premiums for their memberships in exchange for smaller class sizes, and less busy, more dedicated training spaces. Fitness communities make everyone stronger and what’s not to love about coming to train in a place where everyone knows your name?

4. Shared Personal Training Sessions

Picture this: the individual attention and coaching of a personal training session but at a price point that’s a little more than a group class! Shared personal training sessions are a huge fitness trend right now, allowing a whole new group of fitness enthusiasts to take their fitness goals to a new level with the help of a personal trainer, without breaking the bank.

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Fitness Competitions

Competing in fitness was traditionally reserved for die-hards, cross-fitters and athletes; until now.

Fitness competitions are popping up everywhere and encouraging recreational gym goers to test their skills with achievable fitness tests and events, with categories for all age levels and abilities. Most big competition companies even offer some form of free training protocols to help potential competitors to train for their events. Training with your friends has been taken up a notch; now you can compete against them for bragging rights.

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