Top iPhone Apps
1. Nike Training Club: The new Nike Training Club is a training app that gives you your own personal trainer, anytime, anywhere. Get lean, toned and strong with over 60 custom-built workouts featuring audio guidance and on-demand instruction from a Nike Pro Trainer.**
2. RunKeeper: We like it, you like it, and pretty much anyone else who is into running will come to like it! RunKeeper allows you to track the time, distance, speed, pace, calories, and path on a map for fitness activities using your GPS enabled mobile device.
3. Lose It!: Succeed at weight loss with Lose It! Set goals and establish a daily calorie budget that enables you to meet them. Stay on track each day by recording your food and exercise and staying within your budget. The average active Lose It! user has lost more than 12lbs and more than 85% of active users have lost weight.
4. Fooducate: Are you confused by ingredient lists, nutrition labels, health claims, and marketing hype? Get FOODUCATE and hurry to the supermarket. Use your iPhone to scan a product barcode, see product highlights (both good & bad), compare products, and select better alternatives. It's like taking your own personal dietician to the supermarket!
5. Whole Foods Market Recipes: Looking for healthy and delicious food? Find recipes featuring the finest natural and organic foods. You can search recipes by ingredients and dietary preferences such as gluten-free, low fat, and vegetarian/vegan. Every Whole Foods Market recipe includes nutritional information and cooking instructions. You can also enter up to 3 items you have on hand to find recipes using those ingredients.
Top Android Apps
1. FatSecret Calorie Counter: The Calorie Counter is the essential Android application for people who want to keep track of their food, exercise and weight and be able to sync and access all their information online at Fatsecret.com. Some of it's best features include a barcode scanner, food/excercise diary, weight journal and progress journal.
2. RunKeeper: We like it, you like it, and pretty much anyone else who is into running will come to like it! RunKeeper allows you to track the time, distance, speed, pace, calories, and path on a map for fitness activities using your GPS enabled mobile device.
3. My Tracks: My Tracks is an application for that enables you to record GPS tracks and view live statistics - such as time, speed, distance, and elevation - while hiking, biking, running or participating in other outdoor activities. Once recorded, you can share your tracks, upload them to Google Spreadsheets and visualize them on Google My Maps.
4. SparkRecipes: Looking to lose weight and save money? Cooking at home is one of the easiest ways SparkPeople members do both! The healthy recipes application lets you browse and search thousands of recipes, plus save your favorites. It also providse calories, fat, and more for each recipe. Perfect for anyone on a diet!
5. Cardio Trainer: This app covers some of the same ground as RunKeeper, but the app has a larger view of health and training, and the tools to cover it. You can use it to track your outdoor run/bike/walk, but also time and estimate your indoor gym activities, too.
**Note: Nike Training Club is really Nike Training Club for Women. Why this app is supposed to only work for women is beyond me, as I couldn't come across a single exercise that wouldn't be beneficial to men as well. So, guys, ignore the name. It'll work for you just fine, too.