According to experts, the
secret of staying fit and healthy is simple – healthy eating and sufficient
exercise. But for most of us, it is a daily struggle – tasty, easy junk food
vs. a healthy salad, sleeping in vs. a morning jog. Here are three Android apps
to help the healthy side win.
Calorie Counter –
MyFitnessPal is the free Android app for myfitnesspal.com, the extremely
popular diet and fitness tracking website. It offers almost all the features of
the website from the convenience of your phone. It has a very large food
database and the option to quickly enter your won foods and recipes, using
manual entry or a barcode scanner. It will then analyze the nutrients in your
food, keeping a record of your daily nutrient and calorie intake. It recommends
a calorie goal based on your profile or you can set your own calorie goals. The
exercise database has over 350 exercises, allows entering your own exercises
and keeps track of calories burned. The most motivating part of the app is the
Daily Summary of your Calorie intake and the graphical charts showing your
progress. There is also social motivation; you can connect with friends to
motivate each other as your work towards your goals. There is a news feed which
shows updates from your friends, making it a fitness social network.
MyTracks from Google uses
GPS tracking to track and record your running, biking, hiking and other outdoor
activities. Once you start an activity session, it tracks via GPS and displays
the data on the integrated Google map. It also tracks other data like time
taken, time you’ve spent moving, distance travelled, average speed, gradient
and elevation of the terrain etc. It can be set up to provide this information
as announcements at suitable intervals during your activity. You can share your
map routes on Google Maps, and your track data via Google+, Facebook or
Twitter. You can export the track data in a variety of formats to do all sorts
of statistical aggregation and analysis. It has support to record data from
external sensors like heart rate monitors, power meters, speed sensors etc.
CardioTrainer for Android,
from Noom aims to be your fitness and weight-loss partner. The free part of the
app is the fitness tracker which has GPS tracking to track activities like walking,
hiking or biking as well as a pedometer to track indoor activities. You can
also manually enter fitness activities like swimming. Other features are the
ability to set up a workout schedule with reminders, Friends Activity Feed and
an integrated music player. Weight loss
is a paid add-on with this app.
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