1 fitness trend in the coming year, while smartphone exercise apps that prompt your activities will be out -- or so says the Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends for 2018 . Over the past 12 years, the editors of the American College of Sports Medicine's Health & Fitness Journal have circulated an electronic survey to thousands of professionals, including personal trainers and physical therapists, to predict the biggest health and fitness trends for the coming year. This year's survey, which included responses from 4,133 fitness professionals around the globe, placed "group training" -- classes involving more than five participants -- in the No. Three new trends found a place on the top 20 list: "licensure for fitness professionals", "core training" and "sport-specific Training." Licensure refers to the general trend toward more regulation of fitness professionals, such as personal trainers.

Source: CNN January 03, 2018 07:58 UTC