There’s a lot of concern about how we compulsively check our smartphones and spend so long looking at computer screens in the digital age. But our growing infatuation with technology has coincided with a positive trend: a newfound enthusiasm for fitness. As a nation, we’re healthier than we’ve ever been, opting to ditch damaging behaviours for a wide variety of body-benefiting regimes.
Of course, the likes of football, cricket, tennis and rugby are British staples and remain perhaps the most popular quartet of sports in the country. But as well as participation in ball games, we’re also becoming increasingly involved in fitness schemes shaped by personal trainers.