All Of The Biggest Diet And Fitness Trends Of 2018
Take a look back at the ten biggest diet and fitness trends of 2018 to help you prepare for the new year
The year was 2018. Everything you loved was suddenly made of cauliflower. Mirrors could stream a personal training session, and everyone rebelled against age-old advice and decided to skip breakfast. Take a look back at the ten biggest diet and fitness trends of 2018 to help you prepare for the new year.
This article originally appeared on Harper's Bazaar US.
Follow-along workouts you can do from your living room are as old as the VHS tape. But in 2018, the concept has been totally reimagined. With a subscription to Obe Fitness or Classpass Live, you can stream a live workout from celebrity trainers straight to your phone, laptop, or TV screen every single day. Can't make the live class? There are also hundreds of on-demand workouts to choose from, so excuses and workout fatigue are officially are a thing of the past.
Cauliflower is pizza. Cauliflower is rice. Cauliflower is oatmeal. In 2018, cauliflower can become anything you want it to. Supermarket shelves are now stocked with lower-carb pizza crust options derived from everyone's favorite cruciferous vegetable.
Meditation use to be something we all knew we should try but didn't know how. Now it's easier than ever to be guided through different forms of meditative practice with apps like Headspace. You can meditate while walking, sitting on the subway, or even while running, thanks to a Headspace collab with Nike. The gym Equinox even recently integrated meditation into their app as part of recovery.
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It was one of the top beauty question of 2018: should I be drinking collagen? The answer isn't a simple yes or no, partricularly from an anti-aging perspective. “Collagen is a large molecule and for the most part is broken down into its component amino acids in the gut,” says Dr. Joshua Zeichner, director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
“It has been suggested that these amino acids enter the bloodstream and provide the building blocks for new healthy collagen production. However the jury is still out on collagen supplements.” Still, if you want to try it for yourself, there are more pills and powders than ever before to help boost your intake of collagen.
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Remember when you had to actually go to the gym to go to the gym? Those days are over. This was the year of the high-tech workout, like Peloton biking and the at-home gym called Mirror. What looks just like any full-length mirror is actually an interactive screen that broadcasts live or pre-recorded workouts right into your home.
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There is nothing sexy or fun about taking vitamins, unless you package said vitamins in Instagrammable gummy candy form. A slew of gummy vitamins for adults popped up this year. We love the company Olly Nutrition: whether you need b vitamins, melatonin, biotin, or plain vitamin c—Olly's gummies are almost too easy to remember to take every single day (they're incredibly delicious).
No matter how much you love fried food, it will never love you back. Which is why we're so grateful that 2018 introduced us to the air fryer: a snazzy new kitchen device that crisps food using hot air and little to no oil. Anything you can bake or deep fry you can cook in your air fryer in half the time—and save all those extra oil calories for something else.
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The royal wedding brought forth a ton of questions about Meghan Markle's diet and fitness routine. The short answer? She eats a mostly plant-based diet, loves indulging in wine and fries, and is a yoga and pilates junkie. You can read everything we know about her diet and fitness routine here.
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It turns out, breakfast might not be the most important meal of the day. A diet strategy called intermittent fasting gained popularity in 2018. It breaks your day into two periods: a fasting window and an eating window. Most proponents follow the 16:8 rule, which is 16 hours of fasting followed by eight hours of eating, which looks like starting your first meal of the day at noon and ending at eight at night. Studies have shown that fasting can not only be an effective fat loss tool (you eat less calories overall, creating a deficit), but it also might be beneficial for your gut microbiome.
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