Table of contents:
- Couch To 5K
- Sworkit
- Zipongo
- Lumosity Mobile
- Drugs.com
- Breathe2Relax
- SAM: Self Help for Anxiety Management
- Noom Weight Loss Coach
- Calm
As an office worker, it is common to feel under the stress of everyday work. Not to mention the hours of sleep that are never enough. So much time is wasted in front of a smartphone screen. Fortunately, these devices can also be used to promote healthy living.
Many smartphone apps are available out there that target every aspect of a healthy lifestyle. If you can't find the motivation to hit the gym, there are apps that will fine you every time you skip a workout. If you can't decide which cereal is healthier, there are apps that can narrow your choices.
Of course, a healthy lifestyle is not only about diligently eating fruits and vegetables and exercising. Mental health is just as important, and there are also plenty of smartphone apps that can help find you a local therapist or simply cool off after a long day of work.
Can you live healthy without the help of gadgets? Of course. But, why not take advantage of the extra help that's easy to access and use. These ten applications can help you track and improve the quality of your personal health.
Couch To 5K
This application is suitable for those of you who are not fond of running but want to get started. Couch To 5K will help you with a nine-week staged training plan to prepare you for the longer distance: 5 kilometers.
The plan is flexible in stages, allowing you to alternate between a leisurely walk and a jog before actually moving on to a more calorie-burning exercise. One training session takes less time (20-30 minutes and only needs to be completed three times per week) and allows you to rest a day or two, or even more, before continuing.
To help increase motivation, this app provides a virtual coach feature, results tracksheet, and built-in music player that you can make friends with while running.
Available on iOS and Android
Sworkit
Five minutes of exercise is better than nothing, this is the principle Sworkit aims to instill. This app has 160 types of physical exercises which are demonstrated by professional personal trainers. You can start training based on the parts of the body you want to shape, and choose a duration of exercise that can be adjusted according to your regular schedule. With Sworkit, there's no excuse for skipping training because there's no time.
This app is paid, but you can download the free version. The difference is, the paid version provides a wider variety of training types, helps you design and modify the type of training to your liking, and save your training record.
Available on iOS and Android
Zipongo
Zipongo helps you maintain your diet by designing meal plans per week and providing a wide variety of healthy recipes tailored to your needs to your allergic tendencies.
Zipongo is designed by doctors at Boston Medical Center in collaboration with Fitness Forward to give people easier and more affordable access to healthy diets and lifestyles.
Available on iOS and Android
Lumosity Mobile
Lumosity is an app designed by neurologists as an exercise aid to improve your cognitive abilities. Lumosity uses a number of simple but challenging games to exercise every part of your brain. In addition, you can modify the difficulty level and track your brain development history while playing Lumosity.
This app is paid, but you can download the free version.
Available on iOS and Android
Drugs.com
Drugs.com provides complete and reliable information about medicines.
You can list the medicines you are currently taking and receive medical information related to them. Features search It allows you to track one of the many different types of drugs listed on the Drugs.com database. You can also identify drugs that you feel are unfamiliar by entering the type, shape, or color of the drug.
Available on iOS and Android
Breathe2Relax
Breathe2Relax is an app designed for stress management. This app allows its users to perform breathing exercises to reduce stress, stabilize it mood, control anger, and control anxiety.
This app can be used independently as a solution to your daily stress or as a combination with therapy from a doctor.
Available on iOS and Android
SAM: Self Help for Anxiety Management
SAM is an app designed to help its users manage their anxiety. Users can enter records of their anxiety levels and identify different triggers. This app includes 25 options self-help which helps the user adapt to the physical and mental signs and symptoms of anxiety. SAM users can modify their personal profile and allow them to share stories anonymously with other SAM users.
Available on iOS and Android
Noom Weight Loss Coach
Noom combines a pedometer and a nutrition instructor in one application. Noom has a list of food and exercise features that you can modify according to your daily routine, while simultaneously recording your daily step history.
Not only that, Noom will also send articles about health and healthy recipes to keep you focused. The food lists in the Noom database are differentiated by color, teaching the user which foods are healthy and should be consumed, which are unhealthy foods.
Available on iOS and Android
Calm
Calm features a seven-day program designed to help you sleep better. These apps target different aspects of sleep which can be enhanced by a meditation aid. The “Calm” feature in this apss focuses on positive thinking and meditation postures, while the “Sleep” feature is specially designed for those of you who need help to calm down.
Calm also features relaxation music combined with pictures of beautiful landscapes. The timer feature will wake you up with an alarm sound that will not surprise you.
Available on iOS and Android
