Do fitness trackers make you fitter? Hype before evidence. www.shutterstock.com David A. Ellis , Lancaster University and Lukasz Piwek , University of Bath Nearly 20 million fitness trackers were sold last year . These digital devices – which track everything from heart-rate to the number of steps y …

A brief history (and a look into the future) of fitness technology Shutterstock Brad Millington , University of Bath Have you recently taken ownership of a shiny new activity tracking device? For many people, the essential fitness kit now includes gadgets designed not for sitting and staring at a …

Once again the Fellows convened at UCL with other GAMO award recipients to learn from Prof Mark Reed from Fast Track Impact about making an impact with our research. Award winning Mark has written books on research impact and productivity, has been cited more than 13,000 times, and has trained more …

Zivica Kerkez/Shutterstock Richard Metcalfe , Swansea University and Max Western , University of Bath On average, people spend over 3,500 days (or 84,000 hours) at work over a lifetime. This makes work the ideal place to encourage and support physical activity and exercise. And a new study from …

The 15th to the 17th of May saw the first meeting of the GetaMoveOn network fellows for our Visibility Media workshop. We all met on Wednesday evening, along with network leaders Anna Cox and Ann Blandford and got to know each other from various academic disciplines and from all around the UK! (You …

How we discovered the dark side of wearable fitness trackers Under the electronic thumb. Shutterstock Rikke Duus , UCL and Dr Mike Cooray , Ashridge Business School You no longer have to look to science fiction to find the cyborg. We are all cyborgs now. Mobile phones, activity trackers, …

When it comes to Fitbit's 10,000 steps, one size doesn't fit all Long walk to fitness. Shutterstock Mark Orme , Loughborough University The rise of wearable fitness technology is something of a paradox. The surge in popularity of devices that monitor the amount of exercise you do suggest more …

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Laser tag, trampolining and water parks — what teenagers told us would make them more active Traditional sports aren’t the only way to be active. Sergey Novikov/Shutterstock Michaela James , Swansea University and Sinead Brophy , Swansea University School based schemes which aim to get teenagers mor …

Mindfulness may be defined as the practice of consciously bringing attention and awareness to our experience in the here-and-now, in a non-judgemental way, and reconnecting with our physical sensations, emotions and thoughts. It has its roots in religious traditions such as Buddhism and Hinduism, …