A September 2023 survey on exercise habits in the United States revealed that around 65 percent of male respondents took part in strength training. Meanwhile, just under one quarter of female respondents participated in yoga.

In 2023, it was found that 22.4 percent of men in the United States participated in sports, exercise, and recreational activities daily, compared to only 19.9 percent of women. These statistics highlight a notable difference in the daily engagement of different genders in sporting activities. Other factors influencing this participation include socioeconomic status, age, disability, ethnicity, geography, personal interests, and societal expectations. These barriers can prevent individuals from having equal access to, and opportunities for, sport participation. What role does gender play in sports participation? Historically, many sports have been segregated by gender, with men and women participating in separate leagues and competitions. This segregation has led to a lack of opportunities for women and girls to participate in sports at the same level as men and boys. Additionally, societal attitudes and stereotypes about gender can discourage women and girls from participating in sports or limit their access to resources and support for their athletic pursuits. This often results in fewer women and girls participating in sports and a lack of representation of women and girls in leadership roles within the sports industry. However, in recent years, there has been an increased focus on promoting gender equality in sports and providing equal opportunities for men and women to participate in sports. This includes initiatives to increase funding and support for women's sports, as well as efforts to challenge gender stereotypes and discrimination in the athletic world. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports participation The COVID-19 pandemic led to many people spending more time at home due to lockdowns, remote work, and school closures. This resulted in many people having more time to engage in sports and other physical activities, as seen in the share of the U.S. population engaged in sports and exercise peaking in 2020. With gyms and sports facilities closed or with limited access, many people turned to home-based workouts and other activities. This included activities such as running, cycling, and strength training that could all be done at home with minimal equipment. Online classes and streaming services also saw an increase in usage during the pandemic, providing people with access to a wide range of workout options and fitness programs.

A meticulously compiled dataset providing deep insights into the global fitness industry in 2025. This dataset covers high-demand topics such as the exponential growth of fitness clubs, emerging trends in boutique fitness studios, skyrocketing online fitness training statistics, the flourishing fitness equipment market, and changing consumer behavior and expenditure patterns in the fitness sector.

When surveyed in 2023, it was found that the civilian population of the United States spent an average of 0.31 hours per day on sports, exercise, and recreation. In total, this was a slight increase on the previous year's figure, with a higher increase seen among men than women. Overall, the year with the highest average number of hours spent on sports, exercise, and recreation was 2020. Share of people participating in sports, exercise, and recreation in the U.S. In 2023, U.S. participation in sports, exercise, and recreational activities was skewed slightly in favor of men. This highlights a notable difference in the daily engagement of different genders in sporting activities. Other factors that can influence sports participation include socioeconomic status, age, disability, ethnicity, geography, personal interests, and societal expectations. Such barriers can prevent individuals from having equal access to, and opportunities for, sport participation. What are the most popular outdoor activities in the U.S.? Some of the more common outdoor activities in the U.S. include hiking, fishing, cycling, and jogging. In 2023, hiking was the most popular outdoor activity in the U.S., with 20 percent of surveyed Americans having participated in the outdoor pastime. Meanwhile, around 18 percent of Americans engaged in recreational fishing and 17.9 percent engaged in running, jogging, and trail running.

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Because this dataset has been used in a competition, we had to hide some of the data to prepare the test dataset for the competition. Thus, in the previous version of the dataset, only train.csv file is existed.

Content

This dataset represents 10 different physical poses that can be used to distinguish 5 exercises. The exercises are Push-up, Pull-up, Sit-up, Jumping Jack and Squat. For every exercise, 2 different classes have been used to represent the terminal positions of that exercise (e.g., “up” and “down” positions for push-ups).

Collection Process

About 500 videos of people doing the exercises have been used in order to collect this data. The videos are from Countix Dataset that contain the YouTube links of several human activity videos. Using a simple Python script, the videos of 5 different physical exercises are downloaded. From every video, at least 2 frames are manually extracted. The extracted frames represent the terminal positions of the exercise.

Processing Data

For every frame, MediaPipe framework is used for applying pose estimation, which detects the human skeleton of the person in the frame. The landmark model in MediaPipe Pose predicts the location of 33 pose landmarks (see figure below). Visit Mediapipe Pose Classification page for more details.

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ABSTRACT Introduction According to the 2015 National Physical Health Monitoring Report, most of the national physical health indicators have begun to rebound, but some people’s physical health is still declining. Object The thesis studies the problems existing in people’s physical exercise and guides the development of these people’s habits. Methods Our mathematical statistics and other research methods investigate the current situation of people’s physical exercise habits, and explore the factors that restrict habits from the factors that affect the formation of sports and fitness concepts. Result The proportion of people developing physical exercise habits is low. People invest less time and energy in physical exercise. Conclusion The less time and energy that people invest in physical exercise is the main reason that affects their belief in exercise and fitness and physical exercise habits. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment results.

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey’s (NHANES) National Youth Fitness Survey (NNYFS) was conducted in 2012 to collect nationally representative data on physical activity and fitness levels for U.S. children and adolescents aged 3-15 years, through household interviews and fitness tests conducted in mobile examination centers.
The NNYFS interview includes demographic, socioeconomic, dietary, and health-related questions. The fitness tests included standardized measurements of core, upper, and lower body muscle strength, and gross motor skills, as well as a measurement of cardiovascular fitness by walking and running on a treadmill. A total of 1,640 children and adolescents aged 3-15 were interviewed and 1,576 were examined.
This set of restricted data files contains indirect identifying and/or sensitive information collected in NNYFS. For NNYFS public use files, please visit NNYFS 2012 at: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/search/nnyfs12.aspx. For more information on the survey design, implementation, and data analysis, see the NNYFS Analytic Guidelines at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nnyfs/analytic_guidelines.htm. For more information on NHANES, visit the NHANES - National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Homepage at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.htm.

Distribution of the household population by physical fitness classification, by sex and age group.

Context

A team's mean seasons statistics can be used as predictors for their performance in future games. However, these statistics gain additional meaning when placed in the context of their opponents' (and opponents' opponents') performance. This dataset provides this context for each team. Furthermore, predicting games based on post-season stats causes data leakage, which from experience can be significant in this context (15-20% loss in accuracy). Thus, this dataset provides each of these statistics prior to each game of the regular season, preventing any source of data leakage.

Content

All data is derived from the March Madness competition data. Each original column was renamed to "A" and "B" instead of "W" and "L," and the mirrored to represent both orderings of opponents. Each team's mean stats are computed (both their stats, and the mean "allowed" or "forced" statistics by their opponents). To compute the mean opponents' stats, we analyze the games played by each opponent (excluding games played against the team in question), and compute the mean statistics for those games. We then compute the mean of these mean statistics, weighted by the number of times the team in question played each opponent. The opponents' opponent's stats are computed as a weighted average of the opponents' average. This results in statistics similar to those used to compute strength of schedule or RPI, just that they go beyond win percentages (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rating_percentage_index)

The per game statistics are computed by pretending we don't have any of the data on or after the day in question.

Next Steps

Currently, the data isn't computed particularly efficiently. Computing the per game averages for every day of the season is necessary to compute fully accurate opponents' opponents' average, but takes about 90 minutes to obtain. It is probably possible to parallelize this, and the per-game averages involve a lot of repeated computation (basically computing the final averages over and over again for each day). Speeding this up will make it more convenient to make changes to the dataset.

I would like to transform these statistics to be per-possession, add shooting percentages, pace, and number of games played (to give an idea of the amount uncertainty that exists in the per-game averages). Some of these can be approximated with the given data (but the results won't be exact), while others will need to be computed from scratch.

This research examines the relationship between physical exercise and subjective well-being via the mediation of body image and self-esteem, thereby providing some suggestions on the improvement of subjective well-being in college students. A total of 671 college students from three universities of science and engineering in Sichuan, China voluntarily participated in the survey. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and mediation model analysis were conducted using the SPSS statistics 19.0. The results showed that (1) the physical exercise level was positively and significantly correlated with the subjective well-being level in each dimension (R = 0.12–0.64, p < 0.01) (2) college students with the medium and high level of exercise have higher subjective well-being than those with the low level of exercise, and (3) body image and self-esteem played a complete mediation role between physical exercise and subjective well-being. The mediation analysis revealed two paths: first, the single mediating path via self-esteem [indirect effect = 0.087, 95% CI: (0.037, 0.141)] and second, the serial mediating path via body image and self-esteem [indirect effect = 0.038, 95% CI: (0.021, 0.158)]. Some practical implications have been discussed on the physical exercise intervention for promoting the subjective well-being level in college students.

In 2024, the share of the United States' population who took part in fitness sports peaked at **** percent. This was an increase over the previous year's figure of **** percent.

Physical fitness is a key element of a healthy life, and being overweight or lacking physical exercise will lead to health problems. Therefore, assessing an individual’s physical health status from a non-medical, cost-effective perspective is essential. This paper aimed to evaluate the national physical health status through national physical examination data, selecting 12 indicators to divide the physical health status into four levels: excellent, good, pass, and fail. The existing challenge lies in the fact that most literature on physical fitness assessment mainly focuses on the two major groups of sports athletes and school students. Unfortunately, there is no reasonable index system has been constructed. The evaluation method has limitations and cannot be applied to other groups. This paper builds a reasonable health indicator system based on national physical examination data, breaks group restrictions, studies national groups, and hopes to use machine learning models to provide helpful health suggestions for citizens to measure their physical status. We analyzed the significance of the selected indicators through nonparametric tests and exploratory statistical analysis. We used seven machine learning models to obtain the best multi-classification model for the physical fitness test level. Comprehensive research showed that MLP has the best classification effect, with macro-precision reaching 74.4% and micro-precision reaching 72.8%. Furthermore, the recall rates are also above 70%, and the Hamming loss is the smallest, i.e., 0.272. The practical implications of these findings are significant. Individuals can use the classification model to understand their physical fitness level and status, exercise appropriately according to the measurement indicators, and adjust their lifestyle, which is an important aspect of health management.

The raw data on behavior and physical fitness. The behavior for sampling worker before joining WE is on sheet behavior 31 and 62 Then, we show all data for behavior and physical fitness.

This table contains 1260 series, with data for years 1990 - 1998 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2007-01-29. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (30 items: Austria; Belgium (Flemish speaking); Belgium; Belgium (French speaking) ...), Sex (2 items: Males; Females ...), Age group (3 items: 11 years;13 years;15 years ...), Frequency of exercise (7 items: Everyday; Once a week;2 to 3 times a week;4 to 6 times a week ...).

Number and percentage of adults being moderately active or active during leisure time, by age group and sex.

This report presents information on obesity, physical activity and diet drawn together from a variety of sources for England. More information can be found in the source publications which contain a wider range of data and analysis. Each section provides an overview of key findings, as well as providing links to relevant documents and sources. Some of the data have been published previously by NHS Digital. A data visualisation tool (link provided within the key facts) allows users to select obesity related hospital admissions data for any Local Authority (as contained in the data tables), along with time series data from 2013/14. Regional and national comparisons are also provided. The report includes information on: Obesity related hospital admissions, including obesity related bariatric surgery. Obesity prevalence. Physical activity levels. Walking and cycling rates. Prescriptions items for the treatment of obesity. Perception of weight and weight management. Food and drink purchases and expenditure. Fruit and vegetable consumption. Key facts cover the latest year of data available: Hospital admissions: 2018/19 Adult obesity: 2018 Childhood obesity: 2018/19 Adult physical activity: 12 months to November 2019 Children and young people's physical activity: 2018/19 academic year

During a survey in the United States in 2023, around 58 percent of respondents stated that they exercised at least three times a week. In the same survey, some of the most popular physical activities in the U.S. were hiking, biking, and running.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Omar Pelcastre

Contents

Explore the statistics for Beauty & Fitness eCommerce in 2025, including store count by region and platform, estimated sales amount by platform and region, products sold by platform and region, and total app spend by platform and region. Gain insights into regional preferences, market penetration, consumer trends, and technological investments within the Beauty & Fitness sector. Discover the leading regions and platforms, as well as the dynamics of sales and product volumes. Stay informed about the evolving landscape of Beauty & Fitness online stores for a comprehensive understanding of the market.

In 2023, Fitness App Market hit USD 7.21B, projected to reach USD 20.87B by 2030.