PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD
PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD In this, Part 2 of "10 Best Fitness Apps," certified CrossFit instructor and founder of Watch It Now TV Inc., Darren Capik, describes fitness applications that include analytics and social media integration. (Part 1 of this article can be found here.)
"Best-in-class production, very engaging, great reward system, and is No. 1 in smart marketing the way it ties in the Nike brand," said Capik.
An application for females, it first asks women to set their goals (weight loss, muscle toning, muscle building or muscle-group development). After selecting a workout and reviewing the detailed explanations for how to do each exercise, women then do the workout with an audio instructor and stopwatch style countdown. Local analytics provide graphical representations of progress made so far. The application also provides motivation with rewards of celebrity videos revealing "secrets of the stars." Progress can be synced to the NikeWomen Website as well as auto-posted to Facebook.
7) Lose It!
"What I like most about this app, is that it gives you a running total during the day of where your are calorie-wise," said Capik.
More than just a weight-loss program, Lose It! integrates exercise and nutrition with fuel consumption (food), allowing users to set their ideal weight, then work toward that goal by logging the items they eat and exercises they perform as the day progresses. Organized like a health-meter called "My Day," a graph across the top shows how many calories have been consumed so far, how many are remaining (to match your weight-loss goals and compensates in real time by how much exercise you've gotten). Local analytics measures progress for the day and week, with longer-term trends revealed by syncing with the LoseIt! Website. The site can also provide reminders, regular reports and progress-sharing with your friends on Twitter and Facebook.
LoseIt! integrates exercise and nutrition with analytics and social media (right), in a calorie-counter that displays a running total of daily progress.
8) RunKeeper
"This app can really motivate you by tying in its Website, which is very engaging and can keep people interested in working out," said Capik.
A simple and easy-to-use GPS-based exercise tracker that displays a dashboard with time elapsed, calories burned, distance traveled and pace (minutes per mile), all of which is uploaded to RunKeeper's cloud-based servers. The application can be used by runners, bikers, walkers, skiers, snowboarders, rowers and swimmers. An optional heart-rate monitor also tracks cardiovascular performance. After exercising, athletes go to the Website to see a graphical map showing their route with annotations and the way stations that were set by the user as they performed.
"Very easy to understand, takes beginner by hand, but has lots of variation to keep you coming back and really helps you learn how with exercises you are not very good at yet," said Capik.
This application is an interactive fitness trainer that guides athletes through workouts that are customized for each individual. Users can set their current fitness level, the types of fitness equipment they have available, after which Pocket Trainer suggests exactly which exercises to do and for how long. After previewing each workout--with written descriptions, video demonstrations and solutions for common problems--the Pocket Trainer steps through the whole workout, as if a personal trainer were there. The application’s workout includes alternate exercises that allow users to mix it up. Pocket Trainer also sends reminders to stick-with-the-program if exercises have not been performed for the last few days.
10) FitnessBuilder
"Very sophisticated and configurable workouts, for men and women, offering the most growth potential of any app," said Capik.
An easy-to-use workout application that starts with textual descriptions and still images, but also includes video demonstrations of workouts, ranging from a 10-minute energy booster to an hour-long total body workout. Sets the pace with stopwatch-like timers, tracks reps per exercise, logs your progress and schedules sessions. Also alerts Twitter and Facebook users as well as integrates with the MapMyFitness Website for more sophisticated analytics.
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