It's incredible how many gadgets there are around today - and this is a good thing for fitness. As our lifestyle has got more sedentary - it's much harder to get out there and do something. Gadgets can track your progress and give you that little bit of incentive.

Over at diet-blog I posted about the inaccuracies of pedometers. It shows that you do have to pay for quality as most cheap pedometers are inaccurate.

Overall, however, the demand for certain equipment has changed. Yesterday I went into a sports shop looking for a chin-up or pull-up bar. The guy looked at me funny and said he hadn't sold such a thing for many years. He said that most people are buying elliptical trainers and treadmills - and that even a bench is not a huge seller.

This surprises me. Some of the more simple gear can do wonders for fitness. At the moment I am using our washing line frame as a pull-up bar.

Now that's cheap!