fitness apps – PSafe Blog https://www.psafe.com/en/blog Articles and news about Mobile Security, Android, Apps, Social Media and Technology in general. Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:49:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-psafe_blog_purple-shield-32x32.png fitness apps – PSafe Blog https://www.psafe.com/en/blog 32 32 <![CDATA[Keeping Up With the Rates: Track Your Heart Rate]]> https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/keeping-rates-track-heart-rate/ Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:49:39 +0000 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/?p=4420 While Apple needs to approve everything that goes into their App Store, Android is far more open when it comes to adding apps to Google Play. Because of this, there are a number of excellent apps that are both well written and totally free! In this article, we’ll take a look at the best apps for people who want to stay in shape and monitor their heart rate.

Heart Rate
It has a straightforward name, but it definitely gets the job done! With 3.9 out of a possible 5 stars, this app provides real-time PPC graphs, heart rate zones, a measurement history, and the ability to share your rates to social media. Registering unlocks other benefits like profile customization and Google Fit integration!

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Unique Heart Rate Monitor
Scoring an impressive 4.4 out of 5 stars, this app is excellent for both health monitoring and training. Users have commented that it is extremely accurate and helps motivate them to keep fit. It allows users to keep a history of their heart rate and puts timestamps on the readings, and provides a graph of previous measurements so they can track their heart rate trends.

Instant Heart Rate
Receiving a very respectable 4.3 out of 5 stars, Instant Heart Rate is one of the most popular heart rate monitoring apps, as it has received nearly 300,000 reviews. By placing their index finger on their phone’s camera, users are able to find their heart rate and track it in real-time with the apps built in chart. Like Heart Rate, this app also offers PPG graphs and heart rate measurements, but is aware enough to monitor cardio during workouts as well.

Runtastic Heart Rate Monitor
Another extremely popular app (nearly 150,000 reviews) that scores well is Runtastic Heart Rate Monitor. Specifically marketed to runners, the app works similar to Instant Heart Rate, monitoring user’s rate via the phone’s camera. It also features graphs, pulse rate measurement types, and the ability to upload results to the runtastic.com.

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]]> <![CDATA[7 of the Best Apps to Help You Get in Shape]]> https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/7-best-apps-help-get-shape/ Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:26:25 +0000 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/?p=2313 At this point, there is nothing a little extra technological assistance won’t improve, and that includes your most recent fitness kick. You should never even consider starting a new fitness plan or working to get more in shape without installing some essentials on all of your devices. Here are the best apps to help guide your training regimen and make sure you’re staying on track:

1. MyFitnessPal

MyFitnessPal is the king of health and fitness apps. It covers everything health related, from counting calories and nutrients, to keeping track of water intake, to having a very user-friendly calorie counter. The cool thing about MyFitnessPal is that it features an intensive database of foods so you are never hunting down the number of calories in what you’re eating. In this way, it is a great informative resource as well as being a journal of calorie intake.

2. Fooducate

Continuing the calorie counting theme, Fooducate is an app that not only allows you to track your calories and food consumed, but also helps you figure out what foods are actually good or bad for you. It has a function that allows you to actually see the ingredients in your food to make sure that nothing is sneaking into seemingly healthy options.

3. Google Fit

Google Fit is the all-encompassing health app sponsored by Google. It is able to track steps and distance covered in a day, week, or month, as well as allowing you to track other workouts or means of exercise. Google Fit also supports a number of other fitness apps to help complement their abilities.

4. MyTrainer Diet Fitness Workout

This app focuses largely on workouts and looks at your BMI to calculate workout goals that will be most effective at helping you lose weight. It functions as a personal trainer of sorts to create a plan with incremental steps to obtaining a healthy BMI and also offers a variety of different workouts for you to choose from.

5. Pocket Yoga

Pocket Yoga is perfect for anytime you feel the need to just pick up and do some yoga. It features 27 different sessions based on your level of ability and has both pictures of the different poses and videos of how to do them. It also has a log where you can keep track of your workouts, poses you have learned, and sessions you have completed. Namaste.

6. Zombies, Run!

This is a running app with a deadly twist. Perfect for nerdy runners, this app sets up a zombie story that you need to run, walk, or jog to navigate. This is the next best option (besides Pokemon Go) to get you up and moving under the pretense of a video game.

7. C25K Couch to 5K by RunDouble

The premise of this app is that it will get you out of couch potato mode and running (at least) a 5k. It allows you to create music playlists for your runs and lays out different training plans for 5Ks, 10Ks, and half marathons for you to reference. It also features the normal tracking applications so you can keep track of distance and speed on your runs.

If you’re curious about other kinds of apps that are maybe less fitness related, make sure to check out some of PSafe’s other blog posts, like this one about the best apps for beer drinkers.

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