Fitness Applications for Home­-based Training

Iman Khaghani Far Svetlana Nikitina Marcos Baez Ekaterina Taran Fabio Casati

Recent technological advances have created enormous opportunities for developing applications which support training from home, particularly for older adults that are often socially more isolated, physically less active, and with fewer chances of training in a gym. In this article, we review the current fitness applications and their features alongside the design challenges and opportunities of fitness applications for trainees at home.