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If your gym instructor is an iPad, what is lost – and gained?
FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images I have never attended the same gym as Eric Drinkwater, a sports scientist at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. In fact, we live over 1000 kilometres apart. But as soon as we start talking on the phone, we …