The 5 Best Fitness Apps
These are the essential health and fitness apps you need to have on your smartphone.
If your New Years’ resolution was to get fit, lose weight or build strength in 2019, then these apps can help you stay on track beyond January and achieve your goals for the year.
My Fitness Pal
App Store Rating: 4.7
Cost: Free (Premium available)
Often hailed as the number one food tracking app, My Fitness Pal is great for counting calories and nutrient data. With over 85 million users it has built one of the biggest databases of foods, making it easy to scan, search and log your meals. When signing up, you input your stats (age, gender, height, weight and activity level) and MFP calculates your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure). If you set it to lose or gain weight, it calculates how many calories you need to eat every day to achieve your goals. Although a premium option is available, you have access to all the necessary features for free.
Sweat with Kayla
App Store Rating: 4.1
Cost: £14.99/month
Based off Kayla Itsines’ best-selling workout eBook ("Bikini Body Guide"), the Sweat app plans your weekly workouts and helps you track your progress. The BBG phenomenon centres around 28-minute HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) workouts and 40 LISS (Low-Intensity Steady State) cardio, helping you become fitter and stronger either through at-home workouts or in the gym. Through the app, you get access to several different programmes on top of the classic BBG, including yoga flows and PWR - a new weightlifting programme. This one does have a cost attached to it, with a monthly subscription of £14.99 after a 1-week free trial.
C25K 5K Trainer
App Store Rating: 4.7
Cost: Free
If you haven’t already started the Couch to 5k programme as part of your New Year health kick, then give it a try. This programme helps you learn how to run and pace yourself, making it ideal for first-time runners. It’s an 8-week programme, with 3 x 30-minute walks/runs a week. You gradually build up your stamina throughout the 8 weeks with the goal of a full 5km run at the end! The official C25K 5K Trainer app is free to download but offers in-app-purchases to upgrade. The NHS also has a fully-free version ("One You Couch to 5K"), available from Public Health England in your app store.
Strong
App Store Rating: 4.8
Cost: Free (Premium available)
Started weightlifting this January? Keep track of your progress with the Strong app. It's a simple way to track your workouts, with built-in instructions for hundreds of exercises too. Every time you hit the gym, you can log your workout – inputting data on the number of sets, reps and the weight you’ve lifted. The app stores your workout history for 2 years, so you can see your strength increase and look at just how far you've come. Upgrade to the paid version and you get access to multiple insight tools, letting you visualise your progress in graphs, track your body measurements and export the data too.
J&J Official 7 Minute Workout
App Store Rating: 4.7
Cost: Free
Pressed for time? Even a seven-minute workout has been shown to have some serious health benefits, according to research carried out at the Human Performance Institute. This app guides you through seven minutes of high-intensity circuit training, getting your heart rate up and the sweat pouring. Each workout includes 12 high-intensity bodyweight exercise, which you do for 30 seconds each. You rest for 10 seconds and then you're on to the next one. The exercises include star jumps, pushups, squats, crunches and more. There are plenty of 7-minute workout apps out there, but J&J Official 7 Minute Workout often comes out as a top choice due to its variety of exercises and the audio cues that occur during the workout to help you stay on track and keep good form. Plus, it's completely free!
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