Smart fitness equipment are used for physical exercises that help in managing overall weight, improve physical stamina, and develop muscular strength. These devices are used to track information including sleep, steps, calories, heart rate, and other physical status, which further help in improving the overall fitness of the human body.
Rising awareness among people related to health and fitness is one of the major driving factors for growth of the global smart fitness market anabolic steroids. The factor attributed to growth of the market is rising health issues such as obesity, diabetics, heart attack, which further increases demand for fitness equipment.
For instance, in 2013, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation analysis, nearly 30% of the world population was suffering from obesity or overweight, globally. Moreover, according to the diabetics.org, the total number of people in the U.S. suffering from diabetics was 7.2 million in 2014, and in 2015, 1.5 million new cases were reported which was 6.7% per 1,000 persons. Therefore, increasing awareness among people will proportionally demand for such fitness equipment, which will help them to track health related information such as heart rate, amount of calories burned and workout time. This is expected to further help to improve their overall fitness of the body, in turn aiding in growth of the global smart fitness market.
Furthermore, growing government initiative programs related to health awareness is another factor propelling growth of the market. For instance, in May 2004, in the 57th World Health Assembly (WHA) endorsed the World Health Organization’s (WHO), Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health. The aim of this strategy is to promote and protect health by guiding at each individual, community, national, and global level such that it helps in reducing disease and death rates related to unhealthy diet and physical inactivity.
High price of smart fitness equipment is major factor that limits growth of the market. This pushed start-up gyms & fitness centres and in-house users to buy second-hand equipment. Therefore, high prices of these equipment is a major factor hampering purchase of new equipment for commercial purposes. This is expected to negatively affect sales of new smart fitness equipment.
Global Smart Fitness Market: Segment Trends
On the basis of product type, the smart watch segment accounted for the largest market share in 2017 and is expected to retain its position during the forecasted period. This is owing to high demand for wireless health monitoring devices. For instance, according to the Coherent Market Insights’ analysis, the total unit of smart watches sales in 2016 was US$ 36 million and it increased to US$ 76 million in 2017, globally. These smart watches carry out multiple functions such as real-time heart rate monitoring, fitness monitoring, tracking footsteps, tracking number of calories burnt, overall sleep statistics, tracking exercise training, and tracking of user’s daily routine to offer valuable insights on their health. This further helps doctor to diagnose their patient’s health remotely. This is expected to aid in growth of the segment over the forecast period.
Life Fitness treadmills have been designed in such a way that they fit well in almost any home. Not only that, but Life Fitness treadmills are also priced to be affordable for most of the people looking for a treadmill and they have all the features that they need in order to get a good workout without having to travel anywhere.
Basic treadmills are included in the T3 series of Life Fitness treadmill models. There are two choices in this category viz the T3 and the T3i. Both of these Life Fitness treadmill models offer a large number of features including classic workouts (hill, random, manual), sport training workouts (sport training, 5K sport training, 10K sport training) and EZ Incline TM workouts. Display options on the T3 and T3i models of Life Fitness treadmill include display of elapsed time, distance, speed, incline, heart rate, calories per hour and calories burnt.