Free and Low-cost iPhone Fitness Apps for Beginners

Apple continues to deliver on its promise that, indeed, there is an app for everything on its smartphone - the durable, reliable and beautiful iPhone 6 and its future iterations. As a beginner in the world of fitness, you will find plenty of free and low-cost iPhone fitness apps that can become your best tech-based buddies in your goal to improve your physical and mental health through proper nutrition and exercise.

Nutrition Apps

The best iPhone weight loss apps usually have a nutrition component that deals with the basics of healthy and unhealthy food, portion sizes, and calorie counting, among other aspects. The best free nutrition apps are:

• Lose It, an app that combines a food diary and workout journal in a handy tracker. It has a comprehensive food library that provides information about calorie, carbohydrate, fat, protein, fiber, and sodium counts, among other features.

• NutritionTips, an app that contains fun facts about food that a fitness beginner can actually use. It makes the serious aspect of nutrition more enjoyable and educational.

With these apps, you should have an easier time deciding what and what not to eat, not to mention how much and when to eat.

Exercise Apps

If you have money to spare, you can purchase C25K ($2.99), an iPhone running app that beginners to the jogging world will find useful. It contains a 9-week running regimen – three days a week, 30 to 40 minute sessions per day, and tips for safe exercise. The intensity and duration for each week increases until your cardiovascular capacity has noticeably increased.

For weight lifting, the GymGoal ABC free app is a good choice. It contains 280 gym-based exercises complete with written instructions and animations as well as 52 workout routines with four levels of expertise. For example, you can select biceps from the body map menu and you can choose from over 50 arm-toning exercises.

For just $1.99 per download, the iFitness offers over 230 weightlifting exercises categorized according to muscle groups or body regions as well as 100 instructional videos. It also allows users to add and edit their own custom exercises as well as take advantage of its features including 12 expert routines, workout and weight logs, and stopwatch timers.

Of course, all of these apps will be useless if and when you ignore the suggestions for a healthier diet and exercise regimen. You should stop being a couch potato and emotional eater, both of which led to your weight gain as well as your unhealthy physical and mental condition, and start on your fitness program.

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