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2015 Fitness Trends Forecast: Part 2

From the Show: Train Your Body
Summary: Exercise and Weight Loss, as well as Yoga and Fitness Programs for Older Adults are on the new 2015 fitness trend forecast by the ACSM.
Air Date: 10/28/14
Duration: 10
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guest Bio: Walter R. Thompson, PhD
Walter ThompsonWalter R. Thompson, Ph.D., FACSM, is a regents’ professor of exercise science in the Department of Kinesiology and Health (College of Education) at Georgia State University and in the Division of Nutrition (Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions), where he also serves as the executive director of the After-School All-Stars Atlanta. He has served on the ACSM Board of Trustees and was twice elected a member of its Administrative Council.
2015 Fitness Trends Forecast: Part 2
The new 2015 fitness trend forecast is out.

Trends such as Exercise and Weight Loss, as well as Yoga and Fitness Programs for Older Adults, have made the list, along with body weight training.

Using the weight of your body as resistance, body weight training offers many advantages to your fitness training.

Some of these advantages include low cost and ability to do without equipment, making it available at any time.

Listen in as Walter R. Thompson, PhD, discusses more new items on the new 2015 fitness trends survey just released by the ACSM.
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