The world moves faster than ever before. Trends are shifting at a faster rate than they did five years ago. Fitness trends are not different.
‘Millennials’ – according to data from Oxford Living Dictionaries – are those individuals who became adults in the early 21st century. This means that someone who turned 21 in 2003, for example, would be categorised as a millennial.
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.
There several trends in fitness which can be seen among millennials. Here are a couple of these.
Tracking fitness using fitness trackers
Fitness trackers 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 will help you to help you in achieving your fitness goals.
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 – for example the steps you take or the number of times that you go to the gym – and the medical aid rewards you based on this. This means that the more active you are the higher are your reward levels.
The fitness tracker trend is becoming so popular that many app developers – both for Android and Apple – 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.
Trend for veganism
There’s 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 eat eggs in addition to dairy, vegans don’t eat what originates from animals. They also don’t wear fabrics such as leather or, alternatively, wool.
Numerous millennials are embracing the vegan lifestyle because it:
- Lowers their carbon footprint and is more sustainable,
- Lowers many health risks which come with unrestricted eating, for example regularly eating fatty means can cause coronary artery disease, and
- Removes the necessity for killing animals.
Although not purely a fitness trend, but as nutrition is an integral component of fitness the trend towards veganism can be seen as a part of this movement. Chains of grocery stores have begun to manufacture ranges of food products that are vegan-friendly.
Mind-body exercise is very popular among millennials
Millennials are very aware of achieving a work-life balance. They don’t care about working themselves to death as their parents did. They are looking to achieve satisfaction in what they do and integrating their work into their life unlike the other way round.
Millennials are not just using this theory to their working lives. They are looking to achieve a balance in the manner in which that they see fitness.
Yes, you’ll still see people doing weight lifting and sculpting various parts of their bodies to achieve particular fitness goals. However, increasingly mind-body exercises – such as Yoga – have become popular among millennials and are not the exclusive domain of the Yogis.
Because Yoga has many useful teachings and teaches students to be present during the class, millennials are using this type of exercise to not only keep their bodies fit but to also calm as well as focus their minds.
There are a lot of fitness trends which are out there and millennials are in the forefront of trying these out. However, these trends must not be viewed as the exclusive domain of this generation of people. Anyone can elect to take part in these movements if they enjoy them as well as if they feel that these will help them in order to reach their fitness goals quickly and easily.
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