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« on: 24-Jul-11, 06:24:18 PM » |
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Turn Your Android Phone into a Personal Trainer
There's no replacement for the variety of equipment and workout types you'll get at a gym, but with the right mobile apps for your Android device and the discipline to use them, you can get a great workout from anywhere.
How to Use Your Pocket Gym
Not everyone has the time to go or the money to spend on a gym membership. While an empty room and your Android phone are clearly no replacement for a fully-furnished gym, you can still get a great workout with these mobile apps to help you exercise regularly, track your performance and goals, and to push you in the right direction.
For example, a number of general fitness apps will start you off with some baseline stats about your weight and your weight loss and health goals and then help you work towards them, offering encouragement along the way. Since no exercise routine has you doing the same thing day after day, you can switch it up by using different apps each day to build a complete exercise regimen.
Normal gym memberships usually don't come with a personal trainer that can keep you motivated and switch up your exercise regimen on a regular basis – you'll have to pay more for that. On your phone however, all you need is an app like FitSync to keep track of your workout progress suggest new exercises for you every day, and give you both a mobile and a web interface you can use to see how far you've come.
Think of FitSync as the heart of your Android gym. The app lets you log your workouts on your phone, set up a workout schedule to adhere to, download new exercise programs that will work for you, and even challenge friends to meet your fitness goals. The premium version of FitSync adds some weight and body stat tracking, gives you real-time charts you can view while exercising, and more. Both versions connect with FitSync.com (in fact, the reason the Android app looks like an iPhone app is because the app skins a browser and connect to FitSync's mobile-optimized site) to provide robust reporting and history on your exercise regimen.
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