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Gamify your pursuit of superior Sunday league performance with Adidas’s GMR smart tracker. League promotion is a cert

Gamers in the UK spend an average of 7.1 hours every week twiddling their thumbs. With that in mind, Adidas, Google and EA Sports are shifting the goalposts to get you moving – and it’s good news for your cardio engine. This partnership has created GMR, the world’s first football wearable that merges real-world pitch performance with the virtual world of Fifa Mobile.

Its smart EVA insoles fit any boot and feature a tiny Google Jacquard tracker that not only monitors your vital stats, such as kicks, shot power, distance and speed, but also deploys machine learning to clock your playing style. GMR converts your effort and technique into digital rewards in Fifa Mobile.

You compete in weekly challenges; the more work you put in, the more rewards and coins you unlock to buy players and improve your Ultimate Team. Here, Men’s Health runs the numbers.