Top Fitness Trends of 2021

Top Fitness Trends of 2021

One of the most influential organisations in global fitness is the American College of Sports Medicine, the ACSM.  The ACSM was founded in 1954 and was originally called the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, quite a mouthful!

From those humble beginnings it now has 50k members from 90 countries representing 70 occupations in the sports medicine field.  Their mission is:

“The American College of Sports Medicine advances and integrates scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine.”

Fitness Trend List of the Year

One of its eagerly awaited publications is the annual look at the top fitness trends.  This has been going 15 years now and is decided by over 3,400 fitness professionals ranking 41 trends on a scale of 1 to 10.  All the big fitness operators love to have a look and see how many of the trends they have on their menu.

Even a small (aiming for big) fitness franchise like RISE likes to take a measure…so how many does RISE tick off in the 2021 list?

ASCM List for 2021

1. Online Training
2. Wearable Tech
3. Body Weight Training
4. Outdoor Activities
5. HIIT Training
6. Virtual Training
7. Exercise is medicine
8. Strenth Training with free weights
9. Fitness Programme Older Adults
10. Personal Training

We wrote previously about what the RISE product is and looking at the top ten list RISE can tick off numbers 1,2,3,4,5,8 and 10 for sure. That’s a 70% hit rate which is great.   Here at RISE we would also argue that our whole approach, with careful in-workout monitoring and daily mini challenges, also suits the older market.  Lets nudge that score up to 80%!

The outdoor activities element has been pushed along by the pandemic but it had been rising up the ranking from when it first appeared 2010 so it looks like solid trend.

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