Health & Fitness week is over, but with today's guest post you could consider it to be a little continuation of last week! In today's guest post Catie of the blog Books, Beauty & Bars shares her top 4 workout apps with us!
I've talked about getting cute workout clothes
to motivate you to get your ass to the gym, but another thing that
motivates me is using fun apps to get through a long gym sesh.
If you're working out to lose weight, this app has everything you need.
First, you let them know your current weight and the weight you would
like to be in any given (realistic) amount of time. Then, they give you
an allotted amount of calories for each day. Throughout the day, you
can log all the food you eat and any exercise you do. The app will
automatically allot you extra calories by calculating how many you
burned during the physical activity, which is awesome. This way, you aren't constantly wondering if you worked out enough for the day.
Another great feature of this app is the food logging. Not all food you
eat has nutrition labels on it (restaurant food, fruit, etc.), but you
can search almost anything on the app and they'll have it. They even go
so far as to give the option for how much of the food you ate. You can
literally log the 1/4 of the candy bar that you ate, and they can tell
you exactly how many calories it was. My Fitness Pal also keeps track
of past food that you've entered, so if you eat the same sandwich every
single day all you have to do is click on the pre-logged entry for that
sandwich every day at lunch and you're done.
Lastly, click on "Progress" in the app's sidebar and you can log your
weight every day. They give you a visual line graph of your weight loss
so far, which is insanely motivating. Definitely recommend this for
anyone who truly wants to lose weight and has the right amount of
discipline!
2. Couch to 5K
If you're dying to do one of those fun 5Ks like The Color Run, but don't
even think you could jog from your couch to your refrigerator right
now, download this app. Running is a tough habit to get into, and
sometimes being on a treadmill is the last thing you want to do. With
this app, you slowly work your way up to a non-stop 5K within 9 weeks by
switching between walking, jogging, and running at different intervals.
Who knows, you might end up loving it and slowly make your way up to
half or full marathons!
3. Sworkit
I've written about this app
before, but I've included it because it's still one of my all-time
faves. If you're like me and can't understand how people actually get
stuff done on the mats at the gym, you need this app. I used to lay
there, catch my breath after cardio, do maybe like 7 crunches, and then
get distracted by my phone or that super attractive guy doing push ups a
few feet away from me. Now, all I need to do is turn on Sworkit and I
have endless mat exercises to do.
The app generates
random workouts in either strength training or stretching/yoga and
switches to a different exercise or stretch after a certain amount of
time that you designate. The app is also designed to give you the occasional break and has alerts when it's time to switch arms, legs, etc. in certain workouts.
This
is perfect for someone who can't seem to find a good mat routine and
seems lost in a sea of robots doing contortionist moves next to them...
or maybe that's just my gym. Regardless, this will definitely help you
minimize your time at the mats and maximize your results.
Daily Workouts
is simply an app that generates different daily workouts for you to do
at home. But, the maker of the Daily Workouts App also
created separate apps that allow you to focus on specific body workouts.
These are
fairly similar to Sworkit, but instead allow you to focus on a certain
problem area of your body. If your yoga pants fall down because your
flat butt can't fill them out (like me...), download the Daily Butt
Workout and fix that ish! If doing the skinny arm pose in photos can't
even make your biceps look hot, download the Daily Arm workout and
you'll have Jennifer Aniston arms in no time. I think you get where I'm
going with this...
Download one
for a specific workout, or download them all! They're a great way to
tone and shape the parts of your body that get forgotten, and a good
source to find new moves for those areas.
What are some of your favorite fitness apps?
Thanks for sharing Catie! See the original post and read more over at her blog!
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