The three fitness applications I use every day

I use applications for everything, from obtaining free things to make additional income. I also use them for additional help on the health and fitness journey that I have undertaken for a year and a half. I was always active – I teach spin lessons, regularly set up my peloton and I have always frequented the gymnasium – but something really grasped me at the end of 2023 and made me want to get, like, great active. Naturally, I downloaded all the applications I thought I could help myself while I realized my protein consumption, to design the perfect calendar of training divisions and to monitor all my biodata. Here are those who really helped me.

For cardio: the peloton application

You do not need a platoon bike, a tread or a line to take advantage of the advantages of the Peloton application, on which I wrote before. For about $ 24 per month, you can access cycling, rowing and operating lessons that work very well on non -platform equipment, as well as walking, yoga, stretching and even meditation lessons. I follow them all the time, like when I walk outside, I run on a treadmill at the gymnasium, or simply sit in my living room, because the application works not only on my iPhone, but also on my roku.

I really like this application better than having to always find my own cardio routine or follow the advice of a random fitness influencer – the variety is massive And the instructors are so professional. With the renowned brand is an expertise and a certain assurance that you really get useful, effective and safe instructions. The instance of the instructors are always clear and direct, the new classes are downloaded every day, and I have the impression of getting much more than I would do so if I Sais on a rowing machine and that I worked according to my own mood.

For strength training: strong

Peloton also has a force + application that I really appreciate, but if I had to choose between this or strong like my favorite weight lifting assistant, I would go with it. Available on iOS and Android, the relatively naked application is why I like it. He keeps a trace of my elevators, allowing me to participate in the exercise I make, the weight I use, how many sets and representatives I do and that I do a set of drop or a train to failure. He then keeps a trace of all this information, so the next time I am going to do, let’s say, a LAT traction, Strong tells me how many rehearsals and sets that I made the last time and what weight I used.

I used to keep this information in a note on my phone, then move it to a spreadsheet when I got home. It was incredibly ineffective. Strong keeps a trace of the frequency of my training, links to my Apple health transparently and is delivered with additional features that I do not even use, as a tab to note the circumference of various parts of the body because they grow and change ideally. I willingly pay $ 29.99 per year to unlock unlimited personalized routines, but you can use the free version if anything you want is to mark some details on your training sessions.

For nutrition: life

I am a millennial woman and, as such, I spent my time in the Myfitnesspal trenches for more than a decade. This application has its claws in my generation for too long and a few months ago, I finally freed myself when I went to LifeSum. It was like a totally different world.

MFP has had and still has a lot of features that nutrition prudence and defenders of food disorders are worried are a little dangerousLike a pop-up notification that tells you what you weigh in five weeks if you constantly eat the same amount of calories you have eaten that day and the figures that get red when you have exceeded your caloric goal for the day. Life, on iOS and Android, is much softer than that and focuses more on whole nutrition than a simple model based on calories. When I go beyond my calorie goal for the day, there is no red number that makes me feel bad; The pastel rainbow background is as soothing and encouraging as the day I eat to my goal.

When you register in Lifesum, you take a quiz to get a “life score” and this requires how much you tend to eat in different categories, such as seafood and fruits. You set macronutrient objectives, activity objectives and calorie goals, but the application is not arrogant if you do not meet them a given day. You are not rewarded for having maintained a “sequence”. The whole thing is so pleasant that it really encourages me to use it, which is hardly a difficult chore because life offers you many options for use: I have a widget on my phone which allows me to enter the scanner in water and follow my macros without opening the application, I can use the calories, or I can type what I am grasping what I am doing a cat) Meal (as possible and allow the application to estimate my calories and nutrients according to this. My Apple health data, including my training sessions and my weight, is entered for me and LifeSum adjusts my recommended contributions according to this information and the objectives that I set myself. It is $ 99.99 per year, $ 29.99 every three months, or $ 7.49 per month.

Other telephone -based fitness considerations

I like to leave my phone and other devices do a lot of work for me when I can, so I constantly wear my Apple Watch, which provides data on the quantity of walking, to stand up, to move, to sleep and generally exercise my Apple Health application directly, which in turn disseminates this information to LIFFEUM and to my other applications. I also use an intelligent scale to weigh myself and this too provides information so that Apple Health can spread. You can absolutely get Also In monitoring your own progress and your physical form, I recommend that you get these kinds of devices if you can show reasonable caution, but overall, the possibility of following and accessing data without doing too much work is really useful. This is the scale I use and I love:

All that says, you don’t want to spend too much time playing with your phone, especially during meals or when you are at the gymnasium. The above applications are not tumors; Life, in particular, works very quickly thanks to its barcode scanner and its image capacities. However, do not be so wrapped in the monitoring and planning that you neglect food or real exercise. A simple bypass solution here is the Steppin application, which works with your phone’s podometer and blocks predetermined applications, allowing you to access it only if you are ready to exchange the time you have saved. If you notice that you spend a little too much time browsing your nutritional application or scrolling the pages of fitness influencers without reproducing the exercises they show you, Steppin can provide a happy medium, cut access to your application And encourages you to take your steps.