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Top 10 Apps for Your Fitness Journey
 Finding
the right
app
out of a thousand options, can be overwhelming and send you back to your
notebook and your favorite DVDs. To help, narrow down your choice we bring
you the 10 essential apps for meeting any fitness goal. No matter how old or
young you are there is always an app to help your health.
Food:
MyFitnessPal has proven to be the most popular and functional
of food
log apps. With a barcode scanner and the ability to easily import
recipes, it makes keeping a food journal a snap. If you're ready to switch
to a more proactive approach, try the meal planning app Gathered Table. It syncs
with their user-friendly website, gives you plenty of easy to make recipes and
makes the shopping list for you. There's a fee for the service, but they offer a
free trial.
 Workouts:
Nike+ Training Club is a free app with a workout for every level. Choose
among beginner, intermediate and advanced
workouts, or opt for a Get Focused workout to target your trouble spot.
The DailyBurn app is free, but you must pay a monthly fee to access the
workouts (which are available on your iPhone, iPad, laptop or Roku). You can
pick any of their programs to follow or choose a stand-alone workout to
compliment your gym routine.
 Stress:
The
Buddhify app may be the best $4.99 you�ll spend in the App Store. With
exciting graphics and soothing voices, this meditation app has a practice
for every level and situation. Around the wheel, you'll find
meditation exercises if you can't sleep, your next flight or taking a
break at work. The simple exercises take the mystery out of meditation and
make it accessible to everyone.
  Symptoms
Alert: If you are one of those moms that constantly checks up symptoms
on WebMD, there is actually an app for WebMD now? This app engages you,
allows you to read up on so many things and is even a symptom checker! It is
an app that is ideal for anyone that is looking for more out of their apps.
 Sleep:
Getting your seven to eight hours a night is important to your overall
health. However, just as with food and exercise, it's not just about
quantity. If you're waking up exhausted, your
sleep
quality may not be what it should be. The
Sleep Cycle app takes cues from
your movement to not only rate sleep quality but also wake you up at the
optimal time in your sleep cycle. Add notes about your day to help determine
what makes for your best night�s sleep.
 Schedule:
Cozi may be the go-to scheduling app for busy families, but did you know it
also works well for scheduling workouts with friends or your running group?
Use the color-coding to indicate different types of workouts, locations or
groups.
 Accountability:
Need more than just a schedule to keep you on task? The
PACT app works to
keep you motivated via financial incentives. Check in at the gym and hit all
your goals for the week and you get paid. Skip the gym and hit happy hour
and you have to pay.
Motivation: Maybe getting paid isn't the best motivator for you. How
about earning dollars for your favorite cause? The
Charity Miles app lets you
log a walk or run and earn money for your favorite charity based on your effort.
  Yoga:
There is a wealth of
yoga apps available for Android and iOS devices that provide visual and
audio guides to a variety of poses useful for everything from everyday
stretching, exercise, to just stretching in a cramped desk chair or business
trip .If you are a die-hard yoga person,
Yoga Stretch is absolutely the app for
you! It's an app that will help you create and customize all sorts of yoga
sessions and even play your own preloaded music. This is a fantastic app that
every woman should get � especially if you love yoga.
Shop: We all know fruits and vegetables are good for us, but what
about the cereal shouting more protein on the box? If you're not sure if that
breakfast cookie is really a good choice, scan the barcode on
Fooducate and let
the app decide. Fooducate assigns a grade (A through F) to a food, and then
provides you a list of better choices if yours does not make the grade. Start by
scanning the food in your own pantry. It can be pretty eye opening!
Technology has changed the
fitness
journey, but nothing will ever replace the basics. It doesn�t matter if you do
your squats at the gym or in a virtual group fitness class � they still work!
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Dated 29 April 2015
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