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The era that continues to develop brings a variety of conveniences for humans, especially in this industrial 4.0 era, humans are greatly facilitated by a variety of digital devices. However, apart from that, industry 4.0 has disrupted various aspects of human life, such as social, cultural, economic, educational, and even sports. One of the major distractions in the field of sports is that some sports applications have shifted the sporting paradigm in which digital devices have presented virtual trainers with training offered. Through sports applications that present virtual trainers on smartphones, users can exercise without real help from the trainer. But does this impact change the traditional paradigm of sports. Using the cross-sectional survey technique, this article tries to find out about the respondents choice of the virtual trainers or reality trainers. By using 30 respondents, this study revealed that in the era of industrial revolution 4.0 technological advances that present virtual trainers have changed the paradigm of society in sports, they tend to choose sports guided by virtual trainers through smartphones and other gadgets. This article can have implications for the study of the sports industry in the future because the rapid use of digital devices has changed the paradigm of sports from traditional to digital.