For the past 13 years the American College of Sports Medicine surveyed thousands of fitness professionals about health and fitness trends via an electronic questionnaire. Is this article we will have a look at the 13 top fitness trends of 2019 identified by over 2,000 fitness professionals.

1. Wearable Technology

Wearable technology rated was rated in the top 3 for the past years. Fitness trackers is a fast growing market where we see from 2018 that the smartwatches are becoming fully fledge fitness trackers as well. The main question is how ever how can you successfully use fitness trackers during your personal training sessions?

2. Group Training

In the surve of ACSM group training is described as any training with more than 5 participants. Over the past years group training has got from position 20 in 2017 to number 2. Keep in mind that online group training is a fast growing market.

3. HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training)

Dropped from number 1 to number 3 this year but it is still gaining a lot of tracktion. Group training is describe by the ACSM as ‘short bursts of high-intensity bouts of exercise followed by a short period of rest.’ . The best part Anaerobic interval training uses the body’s reserves of energy and, after a workout, metabolism stays elevated and continues to burn calories for hours after the workout. An other great thing about HIIT traning is that you can do it from home in your living room as it often uses body weight for the exercises.

4. Fitness programs for older adults

When you combine the health trends of healthier living, work life balance and the aging of the world population this may not came as a suprise. The ACSM defines older as baby boom generation and older.

5. Body weight training

With a growing number of online workouts and self training programs, body weight is the good solution for a fast and convinient work-out. Using no-equipment and only your body weight you can do your work out any time and everywhere. This is the reason that we are big fans of this type of training.

6. Employing Certified Fitness Professionals

The fitness market is growing year over year. In januari 2019 there are 201,000 health and fitness clubs world wide with 174,000,000 members. In the US the market grow with 3.6% and forecast are shoing it will keep growing at the same rate. So the with this mature market the demand for certifed fitness professionals is growing as well.

7. Yoga

It would been starnge when Yoga did not made this list. ACSM notes that in 2018 there are many forms of Yoga. Power Yoga, Yogilates, Yoga in hot environments (Bikram) and many more. With over 300 million yoga practitioners worlwide we think we will see more forms of yoga in 2019. Did you know that there is even goat yoga?

8. Personal training

SInce the beginning of the survey Personal training is in the top 10. ACSM defines it as ‘fitness testing and goal setting with a trainer working one-on-one with a client.’ With more and more online fitness programs and mobile fitness apps, personal trainers are more and more accesible.

9. Functional fitness training

Fitness can be very practical and that is what functional fitness is: ‘to improve balance, coordination, strength, and endurance to improve activities of daily living.’ doing a sqaut to for example pick up things. This trend is on the rise and partially thanks to the increase of fitness programs aimed at older people, according to ACSM