Top fitness trends to help you kick start your goals

Some Aussies spend up to $3000 on keeping fit each year, forking out for gym memberships, classes equipment and apps.

But working out which exercises are right for you can be difficult, so we've asked personal trainer and owner of Mummy Trainer, Sarah Male, to break it down.

She's put two Aussie mums to the test to see what burns the most calories, but the key to well rounded fitness could be combining a few different practices.

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Mums Heidi Patenaude and Sarah Allen want to get back to their pre-baby fitness levels.

Ms Male got Sarah to do high-intensity interval training, while Heidi was tasked with a slower strength workout with weights.

Sarah burned 500 calories and boosted her heart rate to 191.

Meanwhile, Heidi burned 180 calories with her heart rate peaking at 118.

While Heidi burned less calories than Sarah, it is a workout that will still be beneficial days later.

"When you do a strength session you don't burn as many calories in that session but you get a good burn days after," the personal trainer said.

So which one is best? The short answer there is not just one exercise that can do it all.

Instead, it is about taking a little bit of each and creating a supersession.

"High interval training is great because you can put in that strength component as well while keeping that heart rate up," Sarah said.

"So that's probably your best go-to if you're only going to pick one thing.

"More people are looking at things holistically doing a combination of online training and the gym."

Gold Coast pilates instructor Natalie Dickson is still offering that flexibility, even though her studio is back to operating as normal.

"A lot of people are ready to move their bodies after being in lockdown for so long but also there's just that little bit of fear factor of coming in and being social again," Natalie said.

That is why 20 per cent of her clientele every week are still taking part in virtual sessions.

She has also created a virtual studio with full classes.

"I do think we'll keep the virtual studio going because people really like the option to practice at home," Natalie said.

"They like the freedom of when they're going to practice as well."

"I think taking it slow if you've spent a lot of time at home and haven't moved your body just take it day by day."

If you want to keep track of your fitness goals, there is plenty of affordable tech out there to help you.

Today tech expert Trevor Long said products such as a Garmin smartwatch or FitBit go "over and above" step counting today.

But not all fitness trackers need to be worn.

"Even the fitness equipment now has sensors in it," Trevor said.

"A skipping rope today can tell you how many skips you've done and that can be recorded in an app."

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