Fit or fad ... boot camp displaces Pilates as top exercise trend. 

Fit or fad … boot camp displaces Pilates as top exercise trend.

Bootcamp is hot, Pilates is not, according to a new survey forecasting fitness trends for 2011.

In fact so precipitous was the fall of Pilates, once a fitness staple, that Dr Walter Thompson, lead author of an annual poll conducted by the American College of Sports Medicine, is starting to call it a fad.

“Fads are here today, gone tomorrow,” Thompson said. “Pilates has been very strong since 2008. But for 2011 it fell off the list completely.”

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