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Wearables Rated Top 2022 Health and Fitness Trend, in ACSM Survey

Wearable tech will be the top fitness trend for 2022, an American College of Sports Medicine online survey of 4,500 health and fitness professionals found. “Tech advances have made it easy for users to collect important health metrics and work…

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with fitness professionals and health care providers to develop healthy lifestyles and increase quality of life,” said Walter Thompson, past president and lead author of the study. “Though wearable tech has been dominating the fitness industry for some time now,” said ACSM, “it is no surprise that it is also increasingly finding a place within people’s fitness routines.” Of the seven global markets in which health and fitness professionals were canvassed, China was the only country in which wearable tech didn’t place in the top 20 trends for 2022, said ACSM.