Getting on to a fitness regimen can be really difficult. It could be lack of time, money or just the discipline to go to a gym or engage in any other fitness activity. May be the ubiquitous smartphone can help here too. There are a plethora of incredible apps out there to give fitness tips, monitor exercise sessions and give easy instructions. Here are 5 such apps that are perfect to get you started off on a healthy routine.
1. Endomondo
Available on: App Store, Google Play Store
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Love the outdoors? This is the perfect app for you.
Using a simple and accurate interface, Endomondo tracks duration, distance, pace, speed and route while you’re running, walking and cycling. At the end of an outdoor workout, the app displays a map with the route taken, along with all the stats. It also allows users to compare one’s performance during previous workouts and the latest one.
The best part about this app is that it is social. It allows users to track their friends’ progress and connect with other fitness enthusiasts.
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2. The 7 Minute Workout
Available on: App Store, Google Play Store
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Perhaps, the most popular fitness app out there, this easy-to-use app promises big things—a great workout in just 7 minutes—something that should be easy to squeeze in for even the busiest. This easy-to-use app will guide users through a series of 12 exercises (squats, pushups, etc.) which have to be performed for 30 seconds each with 10 second rests in between. The best part is that users require only a wall or a chair to do these exercises.
However, users should be warned—the workout may last only 7 minutes but is super intense.
3. Zombies, Run!
Available on: App Store, Google Play Store
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Zombies, Run! Makes getting fitter a game by turning your daily run into a virtual horror film. This unique fitness app will have you running from a throng of zombies every now and then. This helps you increase your pace along your regular jogging path and will make hitting the track a lot more fun.
At its core, Zombies, Run! is a basic running app which records and monitors runs and maps progress. It uses audio to warn users about zombies and allows users to synchronise their music as well.
4. CARROT Fit
Available on: App Store
Price: ₹300
CARROT is perhaps the pushiest personal trainer out there and promises to do whatever it takes right from inspiring to threatening and ridiculing to make you fitter.
A virtual assistant of sorts, CARROT is perfect for anyone trying to shed a few kilos. The app monitors your weight and activity levels and gives positive or (very) negative feedback based on this.
5. Yoga-pedia
Available on: App Store, Google Play Store
Price: Free
This app calls itself the ‘mobile yogi’ and is perfect for both yoga lovers and newbies. The app comes loaded with images and instructions for nearly 100 yoga poses and mudras.
The app also posts a ‘pose of the day’ which demonstrates poses via video and audio instruction.
Apart from this, users of the app can also record and upload their own images and videos practising poses included in the app which can help guide others.