Are you trying to stay healthy? Eat right? Excercise more? Be happier and improve your quality of life? There’s an app for that!
Read on for some of the best apps on the market that will help you stay (or get) healthy and fit.
- iTreadmill - With the iTreadmill app, you can unfold your phone and start running. Just kidding. The iTreadmill does, however, keep track of distance, time, average pace, steps taken, and calories burned. You can also make graphs, charts, and any other mathematical graphic device to help you track progress.
- Weight Loss Now with Max Kirsten - Start losing the pounds. Unlike most apps and programs that focus on calorie counting, the WLN app focuses on developing good thinking habits to help would-be possessors of sculpted bodies avoid binge eating and mental traps that sabotage the most determined dieters.
- Edibles - Diet Journal - Calorie and point counters rejoice. This iPhone app counts them for you. This app allows you to make wiser food choices, exercise more efficiently, track progress, and send trash-talking e-mails to your less svelte friends after you become skinny.
- iFitness - Don’t you hate it when you’re at the gym and you have no idea how to do an exercise properly, so you wander around looking stupid for an hour before going home and never returning? Or how about when you go to the gym, try a new exercise, and tear your rotator cuff because you do it wrong? With iFitness, this will never happen again. This app has a database of exercises with descriptions and pictures. It also tracks the number of sets, reps, and weight.
- iStayfit - Similar to iFitness, iStayfit is for more experienced weightlifters. This app allows you to design your own fitness program, track goals, and look really cool at the gym.
Since not everyone owns an iPhone, here’s a look at a few healthy lifestyle websites worth surfing.
- Sparkpeople.com - Take a few minutes and check out this website. It helps track calories, carbohydrates, proteins, and fat. Its food data base contains recommendations and helps you adjust your food intake as the day progresses. It also provides a recommended work out routine along with goals to keep you accountable. Best of all, it’s free.
- Activelog.com - This site, also free, allows you to track your workouts, with the added feature of competition. Challenge others or accept their challenges. Set goals or steal other people’s goals.
- MyFitnessPal.com - With over 160,000 foods in their database, MyFitnessPal has you covered. As with most online weight loss sites, this one tracks progress and counts calories and fat for you.
- Livestrong.com - You’ve probably heard of the Livestrong Foundation or seen one of its yellow bracelets. Now it’s time to experience the power of fitness through its website. Livestrong.com combines the tracking ease of Sparkpeople and combined it with the competitive nature of Activelog to create the most comprehensive site on the web.