Staying in shape is an important part of maintaining your physical and mental health. And because smart phones are more popular than ever, there are countless health and fitness apps on the market that you can download to help you along your fitness journey.
Fitness is much more than just going to the gym and exercising. You have to take other things into account, like sleep, water intake, nutrition, and mental health. Luckily there are plenty of apps to help with every aspect of health and fitness. Here are ten of those apps you should consider downloading.
Couch to 5K is a great app if you want to start running but you’re not sure how to get started. The program is designed to get users able to run five kilometers in nine weeks. It does this by starting users off slow, having them alternate between walking and running for short distances.
C25K has a number of resources available for you to use over the course of your fitness journey. Some of these resources include a beginners program with advice for those looking to start running 5Ks, a treadmill version for those who are doing workouts at home, and information on books to help you over the course of your journey.
Sworkit is a personal training app that helps you find daily at-home work outs that fits your schedule and capabilities. It offers customized workout plans based on what kind of workout you’re looking for (strength, cardio, yoga, or stretching) and how much time you have to workout.
The app offers guided video workouts and the ability to chat one on one with actual fitness trainers, which can be very helpful for those who are new to working out. You can choose to follow a pre-made workout plan or customize a workout for yourself. Whatever you’re looking for from your workout, you can find on Sworkit.
Whether you’re new to yoga or you’ve been practicing for years, Daily Yoga is a good choice if you’re looking to add yoga into your at home workouts. It offers a variety of categories of yoga classes and programs, each with different focuses and tailored towards different needs.
The app also keeps track of all of your practices within the app, so you can track your progress all the time. With a ton of different meditation and yoga classes, Daily Yoga is a good app for your physical health as well as your mental health.
Tracking what you eat is, for many, an integral part of getting fit. But many food tracking apps can be overwhelming and confusing. Foodility is a great app if you’re looking for a simple food tracking app without all of the bells and whistles.
In essence, it functions as a food and fitness diary. One plus of this app is that calorie counting is not a requirement of the app, so you can focus on what you’re eating without being bogged down by counting calories.
Drinking water is a necessary but often over looked part of fitness routines. Waterlogged is an app that can help you track your daily water intake and help you make sure you’re staying hydrated. This app allows you to add custom photos of your water bottles so you can track how much water you drink quickly and easily.
Waterlogged comes with graphs to help you view how much water you drink by day, week, or year.
Mental health is just as important as physical helps when it comes to living a healthy life. Happify is a mental health app that gives you activities that are designed to help you work through life’s challenges. The activities in this app are developed by experts in the field of psychology.
One of the good things about this app is that the activities can be completed anywhere at any time on your smartphone or computer. It also gives you a happiness score, which gives you a quantitative look at your mental well being.
Gratitude journals can be helpful tools for improving your mental health, and now there’s an app that allows you to keep a gratitude journal digitally. Grateful: A Gratitude Journal allows you to get into the habit of reflecting on things you’re grateful for daily.
The app offers daily prompts to help get you thinking and make the reflection process easier. There is also the option to write your own prompt if you already have an idea of what you want to write about. You can even browse your previous entries if you want to look back at your past.
Sleep is an important part of maintaining your physical and mental health. The app SleepScore gives you an analysis of your sleep every night. It gives you an informative breakdown of your sleep stages, which is perfect if you’re looking to learn more about the sleep you’re getting at night.
The app also comes with other features like smart alarms, which allows you to wake up at the optimal time in your sleep cycle, and personalized advice from sleep experts on how to improve your sleep at night.
Map My Fitness is a great choice for a fitness app if you’re looking for a way to track your workouts digitally. The app allows you to log any kind of workout and lets you track things like how many sets you did or how long you exercised. There are workout routines featured in the app, but you also have the option to create your own workout routine from over 800 exercises included in the app.
One helpful feature of this app is that it allows you to connect and sync to other fitness tracking apps, like Apple Health, Fitbit, and Jawbone.
FitOn is a fitness app full of free workouts and exercises in a variety of categories, like dance workouts, Pilates and yoga, HIIT, and cardio workouts. It’s a great choice for you if you love doing fitness classes but don’t have the time or the money to go to the gym. And the best part is, all of the workouts on FitOn are always 100% free.
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