9 best health and fitness apps for the year 2017

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9 Best Health And Fitness Apps For The Year 2017 We all know about the social media apps and keep them handy on our smart phones. What about health and fitness or workout trainer app, which helps you, improve your health? Some might take some charge for downloading but a few are free fitness apps and pretty good. A recent study reported that the participants who used fitness apps were more active in comparison to the nonusers. The studies reveal that the apps help people overcome hurdles in fitness workout, like a lack of motivation and understanding, which develops better exercise habits. With time, these improved habits can lead to big changes. If fitness is your goal then you must add some health and fitness apps to your phone. Here we have listed out 9 top health and fitness tracker apps: (1) Couch to 5K This is one of the best workout apps! Use this C25K mobile app to shift from couch to your very first 5K. Many newcomers to running get discouraged by the difficulty related to the activity because they begin too fast and push too hard. Their bodies lay back and they stop going for running. The Couch to 5K app is not only an intent on getting you to race day, but it has been created to instill the love for running. The Couch to 5K app can transform you from being fat into a regular runner, who can even exceed 3.1 miles in only two months. Each session must take around 30 minutes, thrice a week. Make sure to keep rest days between run days to help your body to recover. (2) MyFitnessPal This is a free Smartphone app that tracks diet and exercise to decide optimal caloric intake and nutrients for the users' goals. The app will calculate the number of calories you consume from food and burn them from exercise and tell you how many calories you have left to eat for the day. (3) Charity Miles You can earn money for charities whenever you run, walk, or cycle using this free Charity Miles app. Corporate sponsors donate a few cents for every mile you run. You can browse the charities listed in the app, find the one that you want to support, and next hit the road.


(4) FIT Radio This is a music-streaming app that has DJ-created mixes which maintain a consistent beat. You can browse mixes by genre, DJ, or type of workout, like Spin, Zumba, or yoga. FIT Radio is an amazing fitness app to try. This app is free to use, but with the free level, you get one genre of music and just a few mixes. A premium membership will give an advantage for over 25 genres or stations, you can access more mixes, track list information, can save favorites, and no ads. (5) Lose It! This app is designed for counting calories and recording exercise, help in weight loss mainly if you eat name-brand American foods. It’s an incredibly strong community of supportive people to help you stick to your goals. (6) Pear Personal Coach Besides outdoor company, this is a good home workout app, as well. This app talks with you through runs, in home workouts, yoga routines, and even training programs for marathons or races. Real human voices make the audio part an excellent experience. This app is free, but inapp purchases can sum up. The Android version is known as Pear Interactive Coach. (7) Sworkit This app is a longstanding favorite. You can select the length of your workout, and the app fills that time with the exercise types you requested. For a free trial, you get training plans and variety of workouts. (8) Strava This is a website and mobile app to track athletic activity via GPS. The most popular activities tracked by this software are cycling and running. Strava transforms every iPhone and Android into a sophisticated running and cycling computer. Begin Strava before you start your activity and you can track your favorite performance stats, and later, dive deep into your data. (9)Runkeeper This is a GPS dependent fitness-tracking app for iOS and Android with more than 50 million users. This app help to track fitness activities based on GPS information and after watching detailed statistics around their pace, time and distance. The app tracks statistics, progress, and applies coaching, which helps the users to advance in their progress through their headphones within built audio cues; you can listen and control music while work out; measure the heart rate and click pictures to save and share while doing an activity.


Aren’t the apps sounding interesting and inspiring? What are you waiting for now? Why not you download a few or at least one and see the difference you create in your health and fitness goal. You must be spending plenty of money and time at gym workout, then why not make your effort more efficient by using the apps which could take care about your health and safety. If you liked this article, then keep visiting our website and remain connected by liking our Facebook page @ForumMantra.


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