by Sarah Woods
Need help balancing nutrition, exercise and lifestyle? There’s an app for that.
With so much nutrition, diet and exercise information available, sometimes it seems like a degree in dietary science would be necessary just to decide what to eat each day. Organizations like the American Heart Association, Centers for Disease Control, MyPyramid and the U.S. Department of Agriculture all offer different recommendations for exercise and diet.
The smartphone revolution has also brought on a health-technology revolution that can make diet and fitness information easier to digest.
One of the most widely used fitness apps, available online and for both the Android and iPhone, is MyFitnessPal. MyFitnessPal has 315,499 likes on Facebook and has nutrition information available for over 1 million different foods.
Members of the site can interact with each other, post on forums and log food and exercise in their food diary. Instead of having to tally calories eaten and burned each day, members can scan the barcode on their food label to log information.
MyFitnessPal will tally all nutrition information and calculate how much of each nutrition category you need to eat based on weight, age, exercise and nutrition goals.
MapMyRun is a free app that can keep exercise interesting by recommending running routes that others have uploaded and rated. The app tracks miles, location, time and calories burned for each run. The company that makes MapMyRun also makes MapMyRide for cycling and MapMyFitness for any type of exercise.
The app stores for the iPhone and Android have entire sections for fitness apps that can track eating and exercise habits for any type of fitness goal.
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25. May 2012 at 1:01 pm
Ola! Thesuflyer,
Thanks you for your post, Do you find exercising a boring activity? Do you want to remain fit but are never able to follow the exercise plans strictly? Then Wii fit is what you need. This gaming exercise transforms the boring task of exercising into a fun activity.
Catch you again soon!
27. May 2012 at 1:14 pm
Hi There Thesuflyer,
I just stumbled across this and, After exercise my second best hobby is technology. So you can imagine how excited I am when I find something that combines both.
Cheers
2. June 2012 at 3:06 pm
Hey There Thesuflyer,
Thanks, on a related note, Yes, we are talking about ‘moving it,’ and to the tune of music or whatever else makes your old ticker do the cha-cha-cha; it is indeed exercise time for those who are looking at fitness as a long-term goal for added health and happiness. It is indeed being endorsed by world-famous fitness gurus, celebrities and medical health experts alike that regular exercise, a balanced diet and moderate lifestyle is the key to complete well-being for long life and this concept is being lapped up by the young and old alike in all major developing nations that were so far making the most of an improved economy and growing number of fast-food joints. Neither did much for the waistline – if the obesity reports of affluent Americans and Europeans (not to mention Chinese) were anything to go by!
BTW great blogpost
16. June 2012 at 10:17 pm
As long as you have some muscle mass, eanitg healthily will allow your body to naturally (yet more slowly) burn off excess fat. However, what do you think it is easier to sell people? Pricey “healthy” food that they can just replace with items from the store, or “get ripped quick” exercise machines for $20 a pop? Also (and this is just my opinion) telling people they can still eat most of what they want and they just have to exercise is more appealing than telling them that they have to be very strict about what they eat.References :
18. June 2012 at 9:57 pm
if you want to loose weight in maratil art style..punching left and right hand 100x kicking to the front (front kick) left and right-one side 50x (just do it by height of the waist) side kick left and right-one side 50x (just do it by height of the waist)here are some links for you to get an idea: front kick side kick punching technique