New year, new good resolutions, which you really want to implement this time. Doing more sport is one of the resolutions that most people make. But how do you overcome your weaker self? These fitness apps show how you can easily get into your sports routine from home without any additional costs.
8fit: Fitness app for easy re-entry
Fitness as such can be understood as a combination of sport, exercise and nutrition. Especially for beginners is the 8fit app an alternative. There’s personalized workout plans, a nutrition program, and—crucially—very good and simplified instructions for everything.
The basic version of the app is free for Android and iOS installable. However, additional and specially tailored content costs money – embodied in the premium version. Access normally costs around 25 euros. Currently you can Premium variant of 8fit try it for three months free of charge.
Asana Rebel: Yoga for energy and flexibility
The cool new one yogaapp in fitness heaven is called Asana Rebel. The startup from Berlin is taking the highly competitive market in the App Store and Google Play Store by storm. The Asana Rebel: HIT Yoga Workouts application doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but offers an intuitive and polished one fitness app. In this way, high-intensity exercises can be selected for different parts of the body and their intensity or length can be determined. It is also possible to create a training plan and watch the yoga exercises in the video. Asan Rebel: HIT Yoga Workouts is available for free. However, if you want to have all the workouts, you have toapp purchase take out a subscription.
Seven: Seven minutes of training for every day
Ungrateful first acts that the free sports app “Seven” for iOS and Android restores athletic progress to its original state if a user misses three training sessions a month. But it is precisely this hardness that should ensure that the re-entry into the training plan is successful. The name of the application says it all: The concept is to train seven minutes a day with just a chair and a wall for seven months. “Seven” guides you through the minute workouts with illustrations, timers, instructions and feedback. A special feature of this app from Sweden is that no internet connection is required to complete the various units.
Checklist: This is what good fitness apps are all about
Before you even download a fitness app to your phone, you should be clear about what you actually want: lose weight? endurance sports? More mobility? If you have found the right approach here, you can select an appropriate app more easily. In addition, these criteria will help you to choose a good sports app:
- Classification of your fitness level before starting the training
- Integration of a warm-up and cool-down phase into the training
- Workout is explained step by step, for example with pictures or videos
- Speech output of sports exercises so you don’t have to look at the screen during training
- Filters by which you can increase or decrease the intensity of your training
