All the answers for your fitness gains are in the palm of your hand.
Chances are, you currently have more than one health and fitness apps on your phone. Nowadays, apps are a way of life. Want to track your daily macros? Download an app. Curious to see how many steps you take in a day, or if you hit REM sleep at night? There’s an app for that.
Apps are a great way to track your daily habits, help you reach your goals, and boost the motivation you need to stay consistent, all while learning about your individual body.
As technology changes, so do apps. They become more efficient and get better and better at fitting our daily needs.
So, if you’re wondering what’s news in the wellness-app world, here are a handful of new, updated, and even futuristic fitness apps for all your health and wellness needs. From virtual training to hacking your metabolism, it’s all here!
FOR TRAINING: Kemtai
Step into the future of training with a brand-new exercise experience focused on providing the most personalized and adaptive home workout experience using AI technology. This web-based fitness app turns your laptop into an advanced, motion-tracking personal trainer.
Complete with real-time personalized feedback and guidance, Kemtai leverages proprietary computer vision technology and AI to analyze human motion and provide real-time training feedback—including form correction and rep counting to create more effective workouts.
Gone are the days where you questioned your form. Kemtai captures and tracks 44 different data points on the human body; more than any other motion-tracking fitness product available assuring your form and range of motion is on point.
You’ll never get bored or do the same workout twice! Kemtai offers daily studio classes, an AI-based custom workout builder capable of assembling endless unique workout combinations, and access to its fast-growing library of on-demand workouts across a variety of training styles such as HIIT, cardio, strength training, Pilates, flexibility, and more. The trainer-led workouts are based on your preferences, including target muscle groups, workout style, difficulty, and duration.
Kemtai also includes four new on-demand studio fitness classes every day—including beginner and moderate/advanced options—led by two of Kemtai’s 20+ trainers from around the world without requiring accessories or expensive home-fitness equipment.
DOWNLOAD IT: Kemtai | Your Virtual Personal Trainer
FOR TRAINING: Kira Stokes Fit App
Get Stoked from head-to-toe with world-renowned celebrity fitness trainer, Kira Stokes.
This isn’t your typical fitness app, the KSFit app, derived from the ‘Stoked Method,’ is the culmination of Kira’s 25-plus years of hands-on experience resulting in a broad suite of workouts powered by a sophisticated training method that is backed by science, and proven to consistently deliver results.
Kira believes, just like a chapter in a book, every circuit within a workout tells a story about your body. This is what sets the Stoked Method apart: Every move matters. Instead of mindlessly moving through exercises, you will learn the “why” of each move, as well as the transition between each move.
Transform your entire body in the comfort of your own home with this functional flow movement method designed for all fitness levels. Whether you’re looking for a daily quick movement fix focused on specific body parts, or want to build endurance, strength, and power with the full-body 60+ minute workouts, the KSFIT app provides a full library of guided workouts while using minimal equipment.
Create your own “stoked stack” by mixing and matching workouts to your liking, and walk away stronger each time. It’s truly a one-on-one personal training session at your fingertips by an industry-leading expert who is a teacher, not a ‘teller or a yeller’
With two new sections launching soon, “Gym Time” (launching in July) Kira has created muscle group-specific circuits to be performed either in the gym or with more extensive equipment at home (perfect as gyms are re-opening across the country!) “Body Shop” (launching in August) includes a guest-expert doctor of physical therapy centered around mobility-based tune-up to help you tune in to your body on a deeper level.
Available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android, Roku, and FireTV Hundreds of workouts and new content is added every 2 weeks!
DOWNLOAD IT: Kira Stokes Fit
FOR TRAINING: IFIT Mind
An already popular on-demand and live workout app, iFIT, has now launched a revolutionary interactive experience of mind and body workouts — curated and designed to enrich the harmony between physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing: iFIT Mind.
The apps’ workouts and series fuse physical fitness and mental health into holistic programming aimed at everything from cultivating happiness to managing an anxiety attack. Experience the mind-calming workouts on the iFIT app, as well as on iFIT powered equipment from NordicTrack, Proform, and Freemotion for stronger physical and mental fitness.
Launching with over 300 workouts, including 20+ series, the iFIT Mind content is developed and led by a high-caliber roster of over a dozen internationally acclaimed coaches, athletes, doctors, and leaders, alongside iFIT’s core fitness content to guide you through countless workouts leading you to better mental health.
Exciting news for those looking to try, iFIT offers a free 30-day trial at iFIT.com.
DOWNLOAD IT: ifit.com/apps
FOR NUTRITION: Freshbit
If you’re looking to track your food, water, and exercise all in the same place without having multiple apps, Freshbit needs to be an instant download. With a powerful database of over 400,000 foods choices, 800 plus exercises, and pre-set water amounts for you to choose from, this app gives you the knowledge you need to succeed in your fitness journey. Freshbit’s daily food planner ensures a healthy diet while allowing you to make healthy food choices without all the guesswork.
Use their Macro Calculator to go on a customized diet of your choice, and browse through healthy recipes that will keep your meals clean and flavor-packed while tracking important nutrients and vitamins.
With a daily food log and barcode scanner, Freshbit provides you with all the tools you need to navigate through the grocery store, the kitchen as well as the gym. With simple data that’s easy to understand, all intake results have graphs, charts, or even emojis to visualize your data and make numbers easy to understand for you. Counting and tracking your nutrition and workouts has never been this easy!
DOWNLOAD IT: caloriecalculator.ai/
FOR NUTRITION: Simplified Nutrition
Simplified Nutrition is exactly what it sounds like: Nutrition made simple. Break away from the noise of dieting and overly aggressive workouts with Kim Lyons, former IFBB Fitness Competitor and Personal trainer on NBC’s The Biggest Loser. Lyon’s 20 plus years of experience in the fitness world led her to create this 6-week gimmick-free nutrition program for those wanting to break the dieting cycle and have a healthy relationship with food and exercise.
The 6 week, easy-to-understand program combines the essential elements of fitness and proper nutrition without all the gimmicks and fads, and with a similar experience, you would have working one on one with a celebrity nutrition coach.
With Simplified Nutrition, you’ll not only rid your mind of food guilt, but you’ll also learn how to rebuild your relationship with food using whole food nutrition, stabilize your blood sugar to reduce cravings, improve hormone balance and repair a slow metabolism, become a “fat burner” instead of a “fat storer” and develop science-based tools to help you reach your goals faster. No more dieting, no more fads, simply learning the basics that Kim has used for years to keep her body healthy and strong all year round.
To help provide you with the tools you need for success long-term, this 6-week detailed program contains 20+ video modules, a 150-page guidebook, 10 downloadable resource guides, an interactive workbook, a habit tracker, and a weekly planner.
With over a dozen videos featuring workouts, meal plans, and recipes, you’ll also get an exercise library with over 300 exercises and explanations, 20 workout videos with modifications for all levels, even workouts that are easy on your joints, and a weekly workout schedule to keep you organized and consistent.
If you’ve spent many years trying to get it right with your health, take the next six weeks and become the best version of you, you can be, simply!
DOWNLOAD IT: Nutrition (kimlyons.com)
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FOR METABOLISM AND WEIGHT LOSS: Lumen
As the first hand-held portable device to accurately measure your metabolism, Lumen can tell if your body is using carbohydrates or fats for fuel. For anyone looking to hack their metabolism and have a better understanding of how their body operates, especially when it comes to achieving weight loss, the technology used to answer questions regarding your metabolism is now at your fingertips.
Each morning, Lumen determines the source of your body’s fuel — carbs or fats and is calibrated to your unique CO2 range and lung capacity. And since all metabolisms aren’t created equal, this personal information allows you to grab a hold of how your body individually and uniquely works.
Once you know what you’re burning for fuel, Lumen then provides personalized nutrition recommendations and daily guidance on sleep, diet, exercise, and more, making weight loss even easier. The metabolism hacking app creates a personalized meal plan for the day, taking any dietary restrictions into account, to help you reach your health goals.
With Lumen’s daily insights, you will improve your metabolism by improving metabolic flexibility: your body’s ability to shift efficiently between using fats or carbs as a source of energy.
The science of Lumen is simple: The CO2 concentration is measured using a unique breath maneuver, which is performed by inhaling a fixed volume of air through the Lumen device (dynamic to each individual), holding it for 10 seconds, and exhaling fully; it’s as simple as that.
Hack your metabolism and weight loss today!
DOWNLOAD IT: Lumen: Hack your metabolism
