2016.. New year, new me? Okay maybe not but for many people New Years resolutions is to get in better shape, and lets admit getting in shape can be difficult on your own without a personal trainer, and of course I'm not in the best shape. I am in all honesty the person who loves pizza and coffee and can go to the gym for a week straight and forget for three months to go again. I find working out at home enjoyable and better with my time management, oh and a lot cheaper especially if you are in a difficult financial situation. So here are my top five apps that I actually use on my phone for fitness.
Nike+ Running
First on my list, which is honestly in no particular order of favorites, is the Nike+ Running app. This one is great for tracking all your progress, gives you the total miles you've ran (with the app) so let's say you just start running now you can look back in a year and see the total miles, gives you your average pace so you can work on that. Also this allows you to set a time goal, a distance goal or a speed goal if you need goals to help complete your run. At the end of the run you have the choice to put how you felt during your run, maybe you felt tired, great, got injured. Bonus if you have an Apple Watch you can add this to it.
Daily Yoga
Daily Yoga is well yoga. One of my resolutions is too do more yoga attempt at least one a week, hopefully as time goes on it will be more than once a week. Once you create a account you have the choice of picking two things you want to work on, I chose learning as a newbie and relieve stress, then they will give you a library of different programs, and is very easy to follow along with.
Charity Miles
This app is by far my favorite in all honesty. Charity Miles tracks the distance you ran, walked, or biked and for every mile biked you earn 10 cents and for every ran or walked 25 cents, which might not sound like a lot but a little can make a difference it can be motivating to keep you running. The money earned gets donated to the charity of your choice from the list they have. A few of the charities include Team Red, White, and Blue, The Wounded Warrior Project, ASPCA, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Every Mother Counts, and so many more.
Seconds
Seconds is a interval workout timer, you can choose from HIIT timer, circuits, tabata or create your own. I personally create my own with the amount of time and name of exercise I'm doing. It's simple to use and you don't have to keep resetting your timer or stopwatch on your phone.
C25K
C25K is an app I have been using for the past week, I'm not a runner no doubt about that, I hate running. I don't get how people can just wake up and go for a run, this app is for people who are like me. This gets you prepared for running a 5k or just getting in better shape. They have different weeks you complete, the first day you start off walking for 90 seconds and jogging for 60 seconds on and off for a total of 30 minutes, they tell you when to run and walk. You can use your music with this app. This is one helpful app for building stamina, highly recommend it.
The last one I have is FitStar Yoga which I have not used yet but will update this list once I do!
What are some of your favorite fitness apps?
Xoxo Liz
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