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The annual survey of worldwide fitness trends is now in its 13th year.

Although we know that no one can accurately predict the future, this survey

can help us fitness nerds keep an eye on what the rest of the world is up to and glean

some insight into what is a worthwhile trend and what is a passing fad. Now over the past 13 years,

the editors of the ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal have

circulated an electronic survey to thousands of wellness professionals around the world

to determine the current year's health and wellness trends.

The first survey was conducted back in 2006, and it introduced what was meant to be

a systematic way of predicting

health and fitness trends.

And the survey has been conducted annually since that time, using the same methodology.

Now since this survey is solely about trends, the participants of the survey were asked

to make a very important distinction between what

they thought was a fad and what was a trend.

Now these are the definitions that were given as a guideline.

A trend is a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people are

behaving, and a fad is a fashion that has been taken up with great

enthusiasm for a brief period. Responses were received from just about every continent and

included the countries of United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, India,

Italy, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.

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