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Gyms

Sliced BreadDough - Series 5
Episode 2 of 5

Greg Foot explores the rise of future wonder products in the fitness sector and asks if weight-loss jabs will make gyms less relevant?

Could weight-loss jabs make gyms less relevant? Greg Foot examines the future of the fitness sector and considers wonder products and trends that might rise to success.

Greg is joined by experts and entrepreneurs to discuss what is shaping today's everyday technology and what it may look like tomorrow, before the futurist Tracey Follows offers her predictions on what gyms might be like within five, ten and fifty years.

In this episode:

Rebecca Passmore - chief operating officer of PureGym
Cameron Saunders - chief executive of ukactive
Varun Bhanot - co-founder and CEO of Magic AI

Among the questions for consideration:
Why are gyms becoming more popular?
What might the training equipment of tomorrow look like?
Will AI-instructors replace personal trainers?

Produced by Jon Douglas. Dough is an Audio North production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

24 minutes

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Thu 3 Sep 202612:32
BBC Radio 4

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