If you have a smartphone, why not power your workout routines with the very latest apps. Tracking your workouts using apps designed to make your quest for fitness more interesting allow you to create your own workouts, analyse and track your progress and even earn vurtual badges for your chance to win actual prizes.
Nike+ Training Club
Workouts anytime, anywhere with Nike+ Training Club, your Ultimate Personal Trainer. Get fit with 130+ free workouts in a variety of full-body challenges—from strength and endurance to mobility and yoga—featuring our world-class Nike Master Trainers in every drill. If structure is what you need, the personalised training plans adapt to you and your schedule for a one-way ticket to the body you want—whether you’re a seasoned athlete or just getting started.
Nike’s official app has a library of 30 to 45-minute workouts that are based on your goals and fitness level. Importantly, the app explains how to execute each exercise with how-to videos and even lets you share your accomplishments on social networks.
WORKOUTS FOR ALL LEVELS
The Nike+ Training Club workout library includes:
- Workout times ranging from 15-45 minutes
- Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Levels
- Low, Moderate and High Intensity
- Bodyweight only, Light and Full Equipment
- Time-based and Rep-based options
CARROT Fit
Are you ready to have so much fun tracking your weight that you’ll actually look forward to hopping on your scale? All you have to do is punch in your current weight, then sit back and let CARROT pass judgment upon you. Make getting in shape suck so much less with CARROT’s hilarious fitness app.
CARROT is a sadistic AI construct with one simple goal: to transform your flabby carcass into a Grade A specimen of the human race. She will do whatever it takes – including threatening, inspiring, ridiculing, and bribing you – to make this happen. It’s a wonderful motivator that features a “7 minutes in hell” workout that will require you to do 30 seconds of 12 punishing exercises
You get 30 seconds for each of the 12 punishing exercises,* with 10 seconds of rest in between just in case you need to hydrate, catch your breath, or vomit into a bucket.
Features:
- Work out with a hilarious AI construct
- Enjoy 3+ hours of spoken tips, encouragement, and ridicule
- Travel through time, protect your property from hobos, and appease an elder god in 12 original, never-before-seen exercises
- Get 12 additional exercises via in-app purchase
- Apple Watch app that serves as a heads-up display for your workout
- Record your weight up to once a day
- Bond with your cute & cuddly meatbag avatar
- Level up and unlock rewards for getting fit
- Set reminders so you’ll never forget a workout
- Track your weight progress on a pretty graph
- Set a goal weight that you’ll likely never meet
- See how many steps you’ve taken today
- Check your BMI to determine if you’re still obese
- Sync data with Apple’s Health app
Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker
Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal boasts a database of more than 5 million foods to sort through, making it easier to track what you eat. It also features a step tracker and a barcode scanner, to make sure you’re able to track everything in your diet.
Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest-to-use calorie counter for iOS. With the largest food database by far (over 5,000,000 foods) and amazingly fast and easy food and exercise entry, we’ll help you take those extra pounds off! And it’s FREE! There is no better diet app – period.
- 5,000,000+ food database of global items and cuisines. Virtually every food you eat is in our database already
- Barcode scanner – track a food just by scanning it’s barcode. Over 4 million barcodes recognized!
- Step tracker – iPhone 5S and iPhone 6/6+ users can track steps and overall calorie burn right from their phone. No separate tracker required!
- Track all major nutrients: calories, fat, protein, carbs, sugar, fiber, cholesterol, and more
- Connect with friends and easily track and motivate each other, or meet new friends from the MyFitnessPal community!
- Received personalized goals based on your individual diet profile, or enter your own goals if you’ve gotten specific recommendations from a doctor, nutritionist, etc.
- Gain insights into where your calories and nutrients are coming from and how to make healthier choices
- View charts of your progress over time for motivation
- Ref https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/
