Walk the talk or walk the walk, here are some smart phones applications that’ll have you pounding the pavement.
Apps to help you sleep better, eat better, take your medicines on time and even get you walking. These days, there is literally an app for everything which is good news of you’re app happy and time poor. Here are some apps to get you off your feet and oving around:
The Walk is an app which makes exercising enjoyable by reciting audiobooks as you walk. The primary feature of the app is its narrative, designed to provide audio accompaniment to your walking routine, in this case , a compelling spy thriller. You want to find out whodunit? You’re gonna have to strap on your walking shoes and get out there!
Moves, an app by ProtoGeo, tracks everyday exercise whether its incidental or not and monitors you as you walk, cycle and commute just by detecting movement while the phone is in your pocket. The app also reflects the amount of calories burned for each activity and also detects if the motion was through walking, running or any other exercise.
Pedometer++, a similar but free app from Cross Forward Consulting, is a very simple but efficient app that keeps tabs on your daily step count and compares this against the target step set for the day.
Another not be missed app in the market is Mapmywalk, which along with tracking your walk also syncs up with a heart monitor to analyse which daily activities consume most of the users energy and regulates it based on data.
With the new various kinds of mobile applications in the market, we can use smartphones as a tool to keep us keep fit and healthy.
