Is 'plogging' the most 2018 fitness trend yet?

[Tennis]

They brought us hygge, lagom and fika, but now a new Scandinavian trend is coming, and it couldn't be more 2018.

Hailing from Sweden, 'plogging' is a fitness craze that sees participants pick up plastic litter while jogging - adding a virtuous, environmentally driven element to the sport.

Plogging appears to have started around 2016, but is now going global, due to increasing awareness and fear over plastic levels in the ocean.

The appeal of plogging is its simplicity (all you need is running gear and a bin bag), and the feeling of getting fit while supporting a good cause. By adding regular squats (to pick up junk) and carrying weight to jogging, we can assume the health benefits are increased.

Running and good causes have always gone hand in hand - just think of all the fundraising marathon runners do. But there couldn't be a more on-trend way of keeping fit than plogging.

"Anything that's getting people out in nature and connecting positively with their environment is a good thing," says Lizzie Carr, an environmentalist who helped set up Plastic Patrol, a nationwide campaign to rid our inland waterways of plastic pollution. "There's been a real shift in the public mindset around plastics, helped by things like Blue Planet highlighting how catastrophic the crisis is," she says.

"We need to keep momentum high and the pressure up, and empower people through initiatives like plogging and Plastic Patrol."

The Plastic Patrol app allows users to map plastic anywhere in the world by collecting discarded items, photographing them and uploading to the app, giving us a better knowledge of what sorts of plastic and which brands are being thrown out. "I'd urge all ploggers to get involved," adds Carr.

Plogging isn't the first fitness trend to combine running with a good cause. Here are some of our favourites:

Running for the elderly

Good Gym's idea is simple: go for a run, visit an elderly person, have a chat and some tea, and run back. Loneliness among the elderly is a growing problem in the UK, but with over 10,000 runs so far, Good Gym is finding a solution.
Guide running

Guide runners volunteer their time to helping blind people get fit and active. By linking themselves together, the visually-impaired individual can feel safe while both work up a sweat.

Cycling for the homeless

Start-up Stuart Delivery and the Church Housing Trust collaborated last year in bringing clothing and healthy food to the homeless. Deliveries are mostly made by bike, so those who deliver keep fit while helping rough sleepers.

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How wonderful!
Great to see folks out there making the world a better place and not being couch potatoes.
Let's hope trends like these can catch on.

[Video Games]

Ok im drunk dont get mad but thats cool and gay lolol its all garbage to me cause.im from cali but whatever

[Powerogue]

Holy crap did we actually manage to trick the "fad" people into doing something good this time instead of just injuring themselves? How was this pulled off?!

Ok im drunk dont get mad but thats cool and gay lolol its all garbage to me cause.im from cali but whatever

Don't Drink And Post. This has been a public service announcement from your local MMO-Champion.

[Super Kami Dende]

Picking up other peoples Rubbish is something I very much don't want to do. People are disgusting creatures, I don't want to touch anything that has a miscellaneous past. I learnt that lesson when I picked up a Brown Paper bag to throw in the bin and was lucky not to Jab myself with the 3 open syringes inside.

Never again.

[Usagi Senshi]

Picking up other peoples Rubbish is something I very much don't want to do. People are disgusting creatures, I don't want to touch anything that has a miscellaneous past. I learnt that lesson when I picked up a Brown Paper bag to throw in the bin and was lucky not to Jab myself with the 3 open syringes inside.

Never again.

Boy, I wonder what your face would have looked like if you could go back to the late 80s and early 90s and see me jump into dumpsters in Detroit. I was a stupid kid sometimes.

Otherwise I agree with you.

[Celista]

Cool! I think it's a great trend. I hope it catches on in the US.

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Picking up other peoples Rubbish is something I very much don't want to do. People are disgusting creatures, I don't want to touch anything that has a miscellaneous past. I learnt that lesson when I picked up a Brown Paper bag to throw in the bin and was lucky not to Jab myself with the 3 open syringes inside.

Never again.

Well in an ideal world people wouldn't be pigs and throw their trash where it shouldn't be, but we could either let it pile up or do something about it. Make sure you're wearing protective gloves next time!

[Powerogue]

Picking up other peoples Rubbish is something I very much don't want to do. People are disgusting creatures, I don't want to touch anything that has a miscellaneous past. I learnt that lesson when I picked up a Brown Paper bag to throw in the bin and was lucky not to Jab myself with the 3 open syringes inside.

Never again.

I just see it as "someone has to." Even if I well and truly hate doing it, and hate the people who make me do it when they do such stupid crap as throwing beer bottles out their window and having them smash against the pavement, or beer cans getting shredded to jagged metal by car tires. Sure I could just leave it there, but then I risk my dog absent mindedly hurting his paws on that stuff when I'm out walking.

[Video Games]

Holy crap did we actually manage to trick the "fad" people into doing something good this time instead of just injuring themselves? How was this pulled off?!



Don't Drink And Post. This has been a public service announcement from your local MMO-Champion.

I do what i want and you can't make me its a yennis yhread anyway hes a babe sonwtims

[Stonecloak]

Yea, no I'm not doing that. I'm in Ny, noway, too many weird people who don't give a damn, and also, when I'm running the last thing on my mind is picking up things. Every ounce of energy is going into that run.

Maybe teach people to actually care about their environment.

[Super Kami Dende]

Cool! I think it's a great trend. I hope it catches on in the US.

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Well in an ideal world people wouldn't be pigs and throw their trash where it shouldn't be, but we could either let it pile up or do something about it. Make sure you're wearing protective gloves next time!

Yeah I'll be sure to carry a pair of pierce resistant gloves everywhere I go on the off chance I feel like cleaning up after strangers

[Tennis]

Yeah I'll be sure to carry a pair of pierce resistant gloves everywhere I go on the off chance I feel like cleaning up after strangers

Look at all these good samaritan's from the OP's article. Don't you want to join in as well?

[Celista]

Yeah I'll be sure to carry a pair of pierce resistant gloves everywhere I go on the off chance I feel like cleaning up after strangers

Well alternatively you can go out and have a day per month where you are picking up trash. I do think it's a bit weird to combo running with picking up trash if you're actually running, but on hikes or just out walking you should have more than enough room in a bag/day pack.

[breadisfunny]

Well alternatively you can go out and have a day per month where you are picking up trash. I do think it's a bit weird to combo running with picking up trash if you're actually running, but on hikes or just out walking you should have more than enough room in a bag/day pack.

draenei are trash. they are perfect for picking up trash. so they can run and pcik up trash.

[mvaliz]

Yeah I'll be sure to carry a pair of pierce resistant gloves everywhere I go on the off chance I feel like cleaning up after strangers

I like to go for walks instead of jogging - so I'd probably just walk around with a plastic bag in one hand and tie a stabby-thing to the end of my umbrella (my multifunctional walking stick :P) and just pick things up along the way with no effort and without getting my hands near them! :P

[Berndorf]

draenei are trash. they are perfect for picking up trash. so they can run and pcik up trash.

More or less trashy than Alleria though is the question.

[LiiLoSNK]

What's it called when you go jogging and intentionally throw litter everywhere as you run?