{"id":13458,"date":"2019-11-15T06:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/?p=13458"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:22:15","slug":"what-fitness-trends-can-be-seen-among-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/personal-fitness-training-blog\/what-fitness-trends-can-be-seen-among-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"What fitness trends can be seen among millennials?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world moves faster than ever before. Trends are shifting at a faster rate than they did five years ago. Fitness<\/a> trends are not different.<\/p>\n

\u2018Millennials\u2019 \u2013 according to data from Oxford Living Dictionaries \u2013 are those individuals who became adults in the early 21st<\/sup> century. This means that someone who turned 21 in 2003, for example, would be categorised as a millennial.<\/p>\n

However, this is only a guideline as individuals from all generations can show millennial features. For example, one typical millennial fitness trend is people keeping tabs on their fitness using devices like FitBits or apps on their phones. Nevertheless, many a baby boomer can be seen sporting a FitBit as they can see the benefit of using this tool to keep an eye on their fitness.<\/p>\n

There several trends in fitness which can be seen among millennials. Here are a couple of these.<\/p>\n

Tracking fitness using fitness trackers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Fitness trackers<\/a> are devices which you wear in order to monitor your health as well as fitness information, such as your heart rate in addition to levels of physical activity. These wearable fitness devices are connected to the Internet and use the world wide web to feed this data to a dashboard where it is analysed. You can then draw insights from this data which\u00a0 will help you to \u00a0help you in achieving your fitness goals.<\/p>\n

A good example of how this fitness data is used can be seen with Discovery. If you wear a fitness tracker during your exercise routine, the medical aid reads the quantity of activity that you do \u2013 for example the steps you take or the number of times that you go to the gym \u2013 and the medical aid rewards you based on this. This means that the more active you are the higher are your reward levels.<\/p>\n

The fitness tracker trend is becoming so popular that many app developers \u2013 both for Android and Apple \u2013 have begun to develop fitness apps which function in the same way that a wearable fitness tracker does. Thus, it becomes much more affordable for millennials to monitor their fitness.<\/p>\n

Trend for veganism<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There\u2019s been a growing trend among millennials to take on a vegan lifestyle. While vegetarians stay away from meat as well as fish, but are allowed to\u00a0 eat eggs in addition to dairy, vegans don\u2019t eat what originates from animals. They also don\u2019t wear fabrics such as leather or, alternatively, wool.<\/p>\n

Numerous millennials are embracing the vegan lifestyle because it:<\/p>\n