Health and Fitness Apps for Smartphones
iPhone Fitness Apps and Android Health Apps
Will smartphone health and fitness apps be the future of fitness gadgets? Smartphones are equipped with GPS, have web access so that you can utilize maps, and can communicate with many fitness devices like heart rate monitors, power meters, blood sugar and blood pressure devices. Many more iphone apps are available then Android apps, but this is likely to change.
Some examples of what smartphone apps can do:
- track your heart rate
- measure your blood pressure
- measure your blood sugar
- track your speed, map your course, elevation
- connect to power meters on your bike
- count calories and track your weight loss
- track your pets health
- keep tab of your babies sleep or your sleep
- track your menstrual cycle to help you get pregnant (or avoid it)
- vision test your eyes
- calculate your blood alcohol level
- use your phone as a pedometer
- watch fitness videos on your phone
- connect to user communities
- track your water intake
- help analyze your symptoms or tell you if your test results are normal
- use the phones vibration for massage
- provide white noise or music to sleep by
- help you quit smoking
- help you meditate
- keep tab of your medications
Smartphone apps will be the one stop device at some point in the future. You'll even be able to talk on these devices!! Note, however, that specialized devices such as reviewed on other pages are for now much better then most apps.
Not only do smartphone fitness apps do many of the same things as heart monitors or power meters, they can also connect with social media like Facebook or Twitter, thereby allowing you to brag about your progress or just help your friends hold you accountable to your fitness goals.
To take advantage of the health and fitness apps available on smartphones you need to find some universal wireless sensors. Some companies that sell such devices (called dongles) are Wahoo Fitness and Digifit. These devices plug into your smartphone and can communicate with a HRM strap or a cycling power meter that utilize the ANT+ communication technology.
To utilize these apps you often need other equipment (like a HRM strap) or a sensor to communicate to your smartphone. The Nike plus is one device that shows the popularity of these type of devices - it communicates with iphone or ipad and can be used with the Wahoo app. Wahoo Fitness and Digifit, Zephyr Technology sells health and fitness sensors that use ANT+ protocol to communicate with your smartphone. Wahoo Fitness has really exploited the potential of the iPhone. Not only do the offer 60 fitness related apps, but their apps work with Training Peaks, Garmin Connect and Map My Tracks. You can also use the fitness dongle shown here in conjunction with RunKeeper or CycleMeter apps.
Use Wahoo's free Fisica Fitness App with these:
If you like the idea of a strapless heart rate monitor, new smartphones apps are a new way of measuring heart rate. They utilze the camera in the phone to measure the color of your finger tip. Changes in oxygen level in your blood represent changes in heart rate. The app is called "Instant Heart Rate" and costs $0.99 for the iPhone or free for an Android. Is it better then a Mio strapless heart monitor? Only experience and time will tell, but initial reviews for the simple app are pretty positive.
Here's the top free health and fitness apps for your iPhone:
- Runkeeper - the best app out there for excercises bar none
- Strava Cycling - best app for cyclists
- SixPack App - best for weight lifters
- Vision Test
- Calorie Tracker - from LiveStrong
- Sleepmaker Rain Free
- Medscape - WebMD's app
- Yoga Free: 250 Poses and Yoga Classes
Some external links to health and fitness apps:
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