Use your iphone to track your fitness !

Well after being a recent convert to the iphone and all the functionality available from this amazing smart phone, I started to wonder whether I could use my phone as a means of tracking my journey / fitness regime.

I looked at many applications, both free and paid, all available from the apps store and came across the following app:

• SparkPeople – this is an application which tracks all of your fitness, giving you an accurate calories burned, based on duration of certain types of exercise.  For example, I know through this application that I burn around 500 calories by playing squash for 40 mins.  The application, also gives you the ability to track the amount of calories that you are eating per day – although, this part of the application is very much set up for the American market, based on the foods that are included in the database as standard.  It is possible to add your own foods, including the calories for that food, however I have not bothered with this part of the application.  I tend to simply use the application for tracking my fitness in the form of the exercises that I partake in as part of my exercise regime and the application also tracks your weight, so I tend to weigh myself at least once a week.  Since you require to setup a username and password for this application, due to the application connecting to the backend system, which is via the internet, it is possible to log on to the website and gain a huge amount of information regarding different exercises, as well as finding a whole host of reporting that you can pull off !  This truly is a great application and to top it all off, this application is free and can be downloaded from the apps store by clicking on the following link – http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305430463&mt=8

I’m now after a really good pedometer application, which doesn’t require your phone’s screen to be switched on, so conserving battery life and meaning that it is always running in the background.  This would be great to see how many calories I burn during the day, just by simply walking around. 

So, if anyone has any recommendations in terms of a good pedometer app then please post a comment.  I’d also like to hear of any other good fitness related applications on the iphone !

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