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Phone Applications that Improve Fitness and Health

Phone Applications that Improve Fitness and Health. By: Nicholas Bono. Goal. To offer the necessary tools required to enhance employee’s overall health and fitness levels. Thus, attaining improved employee wellness and performance. . Modern Day Cell Phones.

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Phone Applications that Improve Fitness and Health

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  1. Phone Applications that Improve Fitness and Health By: Nicholas Bono

  2. Goal • To offer the necessary tools required to enhance employee’s overall health and fitness levels. Thus, attaining improved employee wellness and performance.

  3. Modern Day Cell Phones • Through the years, cell phones have dramatically changed. At first, cellular devices were only capable of one task, phone calls. • Now, over 6 billion people have full internet capabilities in the palm of their hand.

  4. Modern Day Cell Phones Continued • There are currently over 13,000 health and fitness applications available for use on both Apple and Android powered systems. • The cost of these programs can vary in price. • Starting as a free download or costing as much as $9.99.

  5. Benefits of SMARTPHONE applications • Convenience • Easy to use • Provides nutritional information • Offers workout tips, and educational videos • Progress tracking software • Sharing Capabilities (Example: Updating information to Facebook, Twitter, ETC.)

  6. Application 1: lose it • This application helps your consolidate your workout and food journal into one. • The food library is extensive and includes brand names and generic categories (for fruit and vegetables). • Each food type includes accurate calorie, carb, fiber, fat, sodium and protein values, which you can track on a separate page.

  7. Application 1: Lose it • Calculates how many calories you ate, how many you burned and how much more you can eat that day. • Provides a graph based on your data shows how much weight you've lost. • Cost: Free • Source: http://www.loseit.com/what-is-lose-it/

  8. Application 2: Fitness Builder • One of the most popular paid applications. • It's has over 200 workouts ( they can be picked manually or automatically by the application).

  9. Application 2: Fitness Builder • Has over 2,000 photos and videos to provide the user with the proper lifting and exercising techniques. • Provides the user with five fitness timers, complete tracking capabilities, a plethora of calculators. • Cost: $9.99 (plus a monthly upgrade of $4.99) • Source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pumpone.fitnessbuilder&hl=en

  10. Application 3: BodybUILDING.COM • Offers advice on: • Fitness • Supplementation • Nutrition • Has a wide-variety of videos and diagrams to promote proper exercise. • Allows you to create/access a BodySpace Account. • Fitness Oriented Social Network • Allows you to track your nutrition and fitness • Cost: Free • Source: Bodybuilding.com

  11. Application 4: GNC • Allows you to shop from your mobile device. • Offers a health Center feature that provides access to research by ingredient, health concern and lifestyle or goals. • Lets consumers scan and store their Gold Card information instead of having to carry the card around with them everywhere.

  12. Application 4: GNC • Gives users the option to set scheduled reminders to take their supplements and track progress. • Cost: Free • Source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brandingbrand.gnc&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5icmFuZGluZ2JyYW5kLmduYyJd

  13. Application 5: MyFitnessPal • Provides the user with an easy tracking system of the foods that they eat and the exercises they perform. • Gives you daily caloric intake and expenditure values. • Automatically updates calorie intake. • Cost: Free • Source: www.myfitnesspal.com

  14. Useful Advice • After researching health and fitness applications, I have found that the app’s I have listed are ranked highly on android and apple operating systems. • However, there are thousands of health and fitness applications that are readily available at your finger tips. • Some include: • Fitness Magazines • Calorie Calculators • Healthy Alternatives (Such as restaurant alternatives to fast food)

  15. Conclusion • With the obesity rate of the United States and other countries drastically rising, I feel as though it is safe to say that we are not taking advantage of these applications. • They are cheap, easy to use, and always available. • These applications have the potential to extremely improve our overall health and fitness. • Finally, these applications give us the opportunity to change our lifestyle. Its time to stop blaming technology for our bad health. We need to use it to improve it.

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