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Dec 19

The Fitness Trend We Think is Going to Blow Up in 2020 – Men’s health UK

Until relatively recently, the only way to acquire a training plan truly customised to your goals, your lifestyle, your body type and your ability was to hire a personal trainer. And even that has its limits. After all, not many PTs will let you push back your 7am session because you're knackered after pulling a late one at work.

But big leaps in fitness tech are set to change this overwriting our shoddy guesswork and giving more of us access to the pinpoint guidance we're after, on demand. "Hyper bespoke" training and nutrition is set to be one of the big trends for 2020. Here are just a few of the ways in which your training is about to get very, very personal.

Less dystopian, more, um, hypertrophian, the very latest resistance machines can automatically adjust to your desired workload and preferred seat position when you log into them (see: Technogym's Biocircuit). This means less time faffing around, but also makes lighter work of logging and monitoring your progress.

While IRL fitness classes are still gaining in popularity, virtual classes are definitely having a moment. From Fiit to Peloton to Hydrow, there is a multitude of platforms streaming classes fronted by Olympian athletes and "celebrity" trainers. That means you'll never again be at the mercy of your gym's timetable, or find your plans for an after-work kettlebell class scuppered by an urgent email.

As integration between competing fitness apps improves, it'll be easier to make a seamless transition from your bedroom bodyweight circuit to your gym routine to your parkrun. Again, Technogyms cloud-based MyWellness app pretty much does this, synching with apps such as Strava, Fitbit, RunKeeper and Swimtag to paint a broader picture of your routine and progress.

Apps like Freeletics and Aptiv are already using machine learning to tweak their workout templates with your feedback. Soon, similar programmes might even be able to analyse your calendar and behaviour to tell you not just how to exercise but when.

Finally, your diet will be peppered with hyper-personalisation, too. The supporting science here is very much in its infancy, but a number of companies already purport to reveal your tolerance for carbs, fats, caffeine or alcohol according to your DNA. (It should be noted that identifying the presence of genes statistically associated with certain traits doesnt mean that you possess those traits.) There's also Lumen, an inhaler-like device that monitors your metabolic function, while uBiome offers feedback on your gut bacteria according to, ahem, a "bathroom sample". Even your PT wouldn't go there.

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