20th March 2012

5 of the best new health and fitness apps

According to Health Care News.com, in 2010 there were more than 200 million health apps in use and the number was expected to rise by three times by 2012.

From apps to cure insomnia to apps to improve your game of golf, advancements in technology has meant that achieving a higher level of health and fitness has never been easier and at such a low cost.

We explore 5 of the best new health and fitness apps.

Nexercise

This entrepreneurial app was developed in late 2011 with the aim to ‘slim down America’ by the computer scientist Benjamin Young, who was inspired by his own struggle to lose weight. This innovative app rewards exercise by providing users with free items such as workout DVDs, natural groceries and energy bars.

Since it was launched Nexercise has received numerable awards including the Capital Access Network Company of the Year award and the People’s Choice award.

What’s more, the Nexercise app is free to download.

Nike + iPod

Now a fitness ‘best of’ couldn’t be complete without featuring Nike is one capacity or another. The Nike +iPod app, which is new to 2012, wirelessly transmits practically all workout data, including distance covered, calories burned, heart rate, etc., to an iPod touch or iPhone, so that users can concentrate on achieving peak fitness and results.

And to get you moving even faster every workout is accompanied by songs from your iTunes library.

The Nike + iPod app isn’t cheap though, costing $20 to download.

MyFitnessPal

If you would rather you’re quest for total fitness didn’t come at any monetary expense than downloading MyFitnessApp for free may sound more appealing. Containing a huge database of more than 1.1 million foods, dieters simply select the food you have eaten throughout the day and the app counts works out the number of calories you have consumed. The idea is that those who are aware of the calorific content of their meals are more successful in losing weight than those who don’t.

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29th December 2011

New sporting app for runners

The well-known and long-established saying “prevention is always better than cure”, can certainly be applied to sports injuries.

If you are a runner and have ever been plagued by an injury, you will understand the weeks of misery, boredom and frustration that accompany the injury, and you will be keen on not to pick up another sports injury.

This is where a new sporting app for runners, the Run Injury Free app, may help. This innovative app diagnoses injuries before they even happen and if you do have an injury, it will advise you of the best practical ways to accelerate recovery.

Designed specifically for runners, this fully-fledged GPS running app focuses, not only on improving a runner’s performance like many other sports apps do, but also on improving the health of a runner.

The app consists of five special running modes with audio feedback, including the “Just Run” mode, which essentially records your time, distance, energy, and pace in real time, as well as your present location on a GPS map. The new sporting app for runners includes a “Walk/run” mode, which is designed for more ‘novice’ runners who want to combine both walking and running to increase their endurance.

The third mode is the “Pace Training”, which gives you both audio and visual feedback about training goals ahead of an impending race. The “Interval Training” is essentially a coach for when you are training to increase your speed. And finally, the “Beat Yourself” mode, a highly motivational setting that encourages you to beat your personal best.

On top of these performance enhancing modes, the Run Injury Free app informs users of knowledge that will decrease their chances of obtaining an injury.

These injury prevention techniques include 10 basic rules to reducing the risk of running injuries, a diagnosis of injuries before they occur, including potential problems with the ankles, knees, feet, hip, back and shins and the stretches you need to perform to help prevent problems in these areas arising.

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5th December 2011

iTennisElbow app for iPhone

iTennisElbow app for iPhone – The smarter way to treat tennis elbow. From analysing sleep patterns, to prompting to you go for a run, to enabling you to engage in a ‘fart war’ (the mind boggles); you can use your iPhone to assist you with practically anything these days, including treating tennis elbow!

Developed by two of doctors, iTennisElbow guides you through exercises and detects your movements via your iPhone to assist you in alleviating the tennis elbow condition.

Created by Luapps Limited, the iTennisElbow app essentially shows tennis elbow sufferers exercises to carry out that have been proven to be an effective method to treat the condition. Talking about this revolutionary treatment for tennis elbow, Luapps limited said:

“In our experience one of the main reasons for physical therapy not working is that people don’t always do the exercises correctly or enough, doing the exercises at home or between sessions is vital to them working. We have therefore created iPhone versions of standard exercises that will encourage you to do your homework – by making them fun and by helping to check you are doing them correctly.”

The iTennisElbow app should not be regarded as a replacement to visiting a doctor or other health professionals about problems associated with tennis elbow, but instead should be used in-conjunction with medical assistance and any treatment that may be advised to a patient.

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21st June 2011

Five of the best tennis apps

They may not turn you into Roger Federer over night, but downloading a tennis app to your iPhone may significantly improve your game.

If you have an iPhone and are a tennis enthusiast, you may be looking to download a tennis app to your phone with the hope of getting the edge on your components on the court.

Well, Trion Z has done the hard work for you and has uncovered five of the best tennis apps available.

My Tennis Tracker

My Tennis Tracker enables tennis players to comprehensively record the details of each match they have played, including results, scores, personal ratings, opponents’ scores and location.

Users can then compare their statistics in detail, which could prove a vital asset before playing an ‘old rival’ again.

My Tennis Tracker costs $2.99 to download.

Sports Tap

This free app provides in-depth statistics and coverage for all the major tennis tournaments, which would be particularly useful if you we not able to watch a major game, as it would keep you up to date with the match.

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20th April 2011

New training app!

The Fun Run Trainer app – Putting ‘fun’ into treadmill training

How can the simple process of stretching one foot in front of the other and running on a treadmill, warrant an app solely dedicated to this ‘couldn’t be simpler’ procedure?

In today’s increasingly technological-dependent society, there seems to be an app for everything, so why should treadmill running miss out on the ‘app revolution’ the western world is presently amidst?

The Fun Run Trainer is a new app for the iPhone, which makes treadmill workouts considerably more interesting and fun, enabling runners to run anywhere in the world – virtually, of course.

By utilising a Google Earth satellite video map, the Fun Run Trainer places users anywhere in the world, who are represented by a cursor.

When users then run on a treadmill, the cursor takes them through any route in the world, such as on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, Missouri’s most famous running trail, the Katy trail, along the River Thames, or around the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

This innovative sports app even lets users adjust the incline of their treadmill to give their virtual running location experience an even greater depth of reality.

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