With iPhone 5 pre-orders making the news this weekend, this article shares five (5) free high-rated Wellness apps available for download in the iPhone. iPhone 5 or not, these Wellness apps are ready to use now, so there's no excuse to wait.
Note that some of these apps would ask for user's profile and few information of user's habits. It's entirely up to the user how much information he/she would be comfortable to share. Note as well that the more information the user provides the more helpful the app can be.
Macaw - Macaw is brought by The Prevention Plan. This app will ask a user's gender, age, height, weight, and few health appraisal questions. Response to health appraisal questions can be updated when any change in user's habit occur. Macaw would suggest activities, track user's progress, and displays a dashboard showing a summary of user's progress. The app has a feature to log exercises and duration, and it also logs distance covered via GPS tracker. Macaw can connect with a user's existing account in other fitness systems such as ActiPed+, Fitbit, MapMyFitness and others. The app also exercises user's knowledge on nutrition. Nutrition can also be tracked and recorded by letting the users enter daily calorie in-take. But for this feature to work, users will need to know calorie content of each meal consumed, which can be done with the help of another free app called MyFitnessPal.
MyFitnessPal - This is the mobile tool of the website myfitnesspal.com. What makes this app great is the ability to scan the bar code of any product imaginable in the refrigerator, pantry, and even in the wine cooler. The app retrieves product information including its calorie content. If you consume the product for breakfast for instance, the app will log it and the number of servings you entered as part of your breakfast meal. The app automatically adds it up to a daily total, which is displayed along side the daily goal. MyFitnessPal also tracks other nutrient goals at daily and weekly bases.
Bloom* - Bloom* is made by Mindbloom, an interactive media company responsible for the Mindbloom Life Game available in the internet. What makes the Bloom* app great is it covers the life areas including lifestyle, health, career, relationships, creativity, finances, and spirituality. (These life areas accentuates the four dimensions of wellness written in a previous article.) Bloom* reminds you to take a break and take some time to revisit which of your life areas you consider important and needs improvement, choose what matters, "discover what motivates you" and "take meaningful action" (quoted from Bloom*). Bloom* lets you create inspiring audio-visual reminders for any of the 'life areas' you consider important and for you to take action. Bloom* can connect with an existing Mindbloom account and with any existing social networking account if you so choose.
101 Ways - 101 Ways is short for '101 Revolutionary Ways to be Healthy', an app powered by experiencelife.com. As the name of the app implies, the app shares 101 ways for healthier living. Read through the 101 ways or pick one in random at a time. Content of the app gets updated periodically so new content can be expected. Any reader of the app can take any of the 101 ways to the next level by taking action, making healthier choices, and incorporating new things learned as a goal that can be recorded and tracked in Macaw or Bloom*.
Workout Trainer - Workout Trainer is developed by Skimble and displayed as 'Workouts' app once installed on the iPhone. This app would ask user's gender, birth date, preferred workout intensity, workout duration, fitness goals, user's name, and email address. Though a fuller Pro version is available, what make the free app version still great is it offers a number of routines that target specific muscle groups and includes warm-up routines, circuit training routines, cardio routines, sports conditioning, and drills. All routines are programmed for the user based on user information entered. Additionally, this app accesses music playlists on the iPhone and plays the playlist of choice.
These great wellness apps for the iPhone definitely bring a positive twist to being on the phone too long. Be well and enjoy.
Source : examiner[dot]com
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