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Healthy apps leave me fit to drop

On further investigation, I shouldn't have been so surprised. According to analysis cited by Digital Trends, the value of the fitness app industry hit $4 billion in 2017 and is forecast to increase to $26 billion by 2017. That’s a lot of sweaty dumbbells.

Eventually, after about two hours, I'd whittled my many options to three apps: one that offers lots of instructional videos and workouts; another that assigns a "virtual trainer" who regularly sends motivational texts and emails; and one that is meant to motivate you into running or walking faster by having you imagine you're being chased by hordes of zombies.

Many weeks on, I've watched one instructional video on the first app, ignored countless "you can do it" emails from the second (I think they now just go straight to my spam folder), and I've been chased by the undead through my local park once (it was OK, but screaming while running hurt my throat).

The good news, however, is that I've taken Hartlepool United from the bottom league to European success on FIFA 16, won the masters on Tiger Woods PGA Tour, and done the Grand Slam on Top Spin.

After all that, I deserve a rest.

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Greg Fountain is a copy editor and occasional presenter for China Daily. Before moving to Beijing in January, 2016 he worked for newspapers in the Middle East and UK. He has an M.A in Print Journalism from the University of Sheffield, a B.A in English and History from the University of Reading.