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Fitness Applications I Use for my IPhone

The apps available today make managing your fitness or aesthetic goals seamless.  Below I review the applications individually and talk about how I use them.  I don’t have much to compare each of them too, because they all work well and I’ve used them for so long, it would be hard for me to switch.

  • MyNetDiary Pro: Nutrition tracker to keep track of calories and the breakdown of macro nutrients of those calories.

  • Fitness Buddy: Training app that allows for custom workout creation and helps with timing in between sets.
    • This app is great because you can take whatever program you’re running and create the workouts in this app, which makes following a program so much easier.
    • By logging all your workouts and saving them in this app, it can replace a workout log, I can go back to workouts from 2015 and look at the sets, reps and length of the workout.
    • The ability to customize rest time in between sets is really great as well, helps me to make sure I rest enough between sets, but I’m sure it would help others make sure not to take too much rest.

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  • Seconds Pro: Timer app to use for EMOM or interval workouts, with ability to create custom timers.
    • There are built in example timers for things like tabata workouts or interval workouts, but the customization ability is amazing.
    • I installed this app on my 12 year old daughter’s phone and quickly created a high intensity interval training (HIIT) timer and for the last two days she has used it on her own to run through a 15 minute rowing workout, which she loved because it was short.
    • I use it for every minute on the minute (EMOM) strongman workouts and for volume work, depending on what program I’m doing.
    • I use it for AMRAP volume work and interval sprints as well, really versatile app!

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  • MapMyRun: app to keep track of runs or walks.
    • I used this app extensively when training for 10-mile and half marathon runs a few years back.  It’s a great substitute for a GPS watch and the headphone updates on pacing are really useful.
  • Coach.me: for creating good habits.
    • This is a great app.  I use this to quit bad behaviors and establish new ones.
    • Its very simple: basically, you set things you want to do each day and you check in when you do them.
    • Examples from my list:
      • Hit my macro nutrients and calories (target is 5 days a week)
      • Write 1,000 words (goal is 5 days a week)
      • Sleep at least 8 hours (goal is 2 days a week)
      • Inbox zero (goal at least once per week)

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  • Fitbit:  This application and the associated hardware help me make sure my non exercise activity (NEAT) level remains high while I remain mostly sedentary during the day.
    • The morning training session may only clock in at like 2,000 steps, and on those days, I make sure to walk as much as possible. 
    • I walk up 6 flights of stairs to where my office is every morning.
    • I will also try to go for a walk when I get home from work if I haven’t moved much.  
    • Step counts may not really count as anything, but as a proxy for movement, they matter to me.
    • Also useful for sleep tracking, which is a useless stat more likely to NO-cebo you than anything
      • Like, if you know your tracker says you didn’t sleep well, what do you do with that information?  Does it change anything you do with your day?  If it convinces you that you won’t be able to go as hard in your training, it has been a NO-cebo.

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