| Summary: | <p>The use of technology in sport is proliferating due to advances to facilitate its practice and improve adherence. Beyond adherence, it is important to understand that technology as a facilitating medium. We should ask ourselves what are the factors that influence the adherence to physical exercise and explore the possibilities of technology. This article shows the protocol of a study whose main objectives are to know the influence of a mobile app on the adherence to sport practice of users of sports centers, as well as the center itself. It is an experimental, controlled and randomized study, characterized as it is a field trial. This is an experimental, controlled and randomized study, with a sample forecast of 128 subjects, who will self-monitor their sports activity for 8 weeks, in the experimental group through a mobile application, in the control group in a traditional way, routines on paper. The recruitment of volunteers began in January 2018, and the first participant was included in March 2018. By June 2018, the inclusion of the total of 128 participants is expected. The results are expected to be available in December 2018. The results will offer a conclusion about the relationship with the users of the fitness centers with less than 3 months since a mobile application was made to carry out the self-monitoring of their sports practice, they adhere more to the sports practice and to the sports center than to the do self-monitoring by traditional means.</p>
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