Our phones now have an app for everything. We can share
photos, video chat, play games, watch movies, and listen to music just to name
a few. Personally though I enjoy downloading apps that help me make smart
choices, our phones are called smart phones after all. From my experience I have
put together a list apps that help with our health, and the best part...they're free!
- My fitness Pal - this app helps monitor your calorie intake, so you can work towards your ideal weight.
- Skin Spot Check –this app allows you to take a picture of a spot you’re worried about, and in 24 hours a dermatologist will send you a diagnosis.
- Fast Food Calories-this app has mostly every fast food restaurant’s menus and lets you see just how many calories are in each meal or item.
- Fooducate- this app scans food bar codes and lets you compare them so you can make better decisions.
- Instant Heart Rate- lets you put your index finger on your camera to calculate your heart rate
- Web MD- just like the website you have access to all of the health information you desire.
- Daily Ab Workout- this app gives you access to lots of easy to understand and time conscious videos to help strengthen your abs.
- Pret-a-Yoga –this app is for yoga beginners; it demonstrates yoga piece by piece and is a great learning tool
- Lose it! - is a great weight loss tool. It lets you set weight goals, calorie budgets, and it tracks your progress.
- StepTrackLite- this app has a pedometer that helps you track how many steps you’ve been taking.
If you’re looking for more free apps that help with your
health make sure to visit Google
Play
I absolutely love having a smart phone for these many reasons. I don’t usually sit there and download a whole lot, but when someone tells me about an app that I could possibly see using I download it. Looking through the ones you have chosen I think a lot can help with my daily lifestyle, I love looking through all the fitness ones there are millions!! I can’t believe the skin spot one, that’s absolutely insane to think technology has come this far.
ReplyDeleteI use My Fitness Pal! It is very useful, but it does take some time to enter in what you ate ingredient by ingredient. This makes me not want to input everything I eat every day, so there are a lot of empty gaps. It is very nifty though because it doesn't just estimate. If you enter in exactly what you eat, you get accurate calculations and it becomes clearer where you are going over calorie-wise and what good habits like exercise you should keep up. I think I will download Fooducate and Instant Heart Rate right now! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteOur technology now is incredible. I am mostly impressed by the skin spot check because instead of going to a doctor's office, you get sent the diagnostic outcomes right to your phone. When I get my phone updated, I am going to download all of these useful applications.
ReplyDeleteI love this post! I am always trying to find new ways to waste time on my Iphone by downloading new apps. However, with these I could be doing beneficial things instead of wasting time. I definitely want to download the Pret-a-Yoga app. I love yoga, but I am terrible at it. I think having an app that can help me learn basic yoga moves would be really helpful and could even improve my yoga skills in the long run. The other apps that you suggested all sound really cool as well. I can't wait to try them all out!
ReplyDeleteThe list of applications if very informative. I have used the heart rate one before on multiple occasions and it seems to be pretty accurate. I think it is so cool we live in a time were this information is literally at the end of our finger tips. These activity's that are now applications on our phones used to be trades learned by individuals, now anyone can have access to this knowledge. I know I am going to check out some of those apps and hopefully be able to utilize a couple.
DeleteI find apps to be great because they save people time and money. They also encourage those with less work ethic in staying fit to stay active because the usage of apps is very simple and is always handy on your phone. The only draw back is that many people spend too much playing and searching for these apps then they actually do exercising and eating correctly. The key is to have a balanced lifestyle in both technology use and staying active.
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