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If your fitness journey includes losing weight or tracking your diet, then download Calorie Counter. You can scan food item barcodes or manually enter your meals to get an accurate count on what you’re putting in your body, complete with info on how to maintain or decrease your number in order to lose weight.
The Nike+ Training app has tons of workout videos for various exercises, ability levels, and goals. They all include an instruction element that runs you through a new move each time before you have to try it yourself. You can also accumulate points for your workouts that add up to unlocking “premium” level routines. If you’re looking for something effective, look no further: These are the real deal. You will sweat.
Only have but a few minutes to work out? The 7 Minute Workout app is a great on-the-go companion if you need to break a quick sweat.
RunKeeper is a simple mapping app that follows you around to plot your run, include interval breakdowns, and ping you with motivation, like telling you if this was your best 5 miles to date, or remind you that this time last week if you were doing a 3K.
If you want to map and time your runs or your cycling but would also like to add a competitive element, try Strava. You can compete with other users, as well as athletes, the world over.
For some people, their tablet or smartphone is their gym. If you are OK with paying a super cheap monthly fee, DailyBurn’s workout plans are incredibly entertaining and diverse, and can replace your IRL gym if you really want them to.
