Get Fit: Apps for Success

Hello internet and future self. The following is a list of items that helped you maintain your goals. Please share with others who may need guidance with their goals as well.

1. Fitbit: Fitbit has been great in helping quantify my movement and tracking my progress. As of this writing, I am using a Charge 2 to track my everyday movement and an Aria 2 scale (which I use daily) to check my progress on weight. After about three weeks worth of progress, I am seeing amazing statistics. I went from 255 pounds to 247 pounds. I’m consistently getting my steps in for the entire day, reaching my new goal of 10,500 steps.
2. MyFitnessPal: This is by far the best/easiest way to track calorie intake and my dieting needs. Fitbit has a similar feature, but it is not as detailed as the free version of MyFitnessPal. Logging food is easy as finding the barcode label on the packaging of the food. I’ve also been able to find restaurant food logging by using the location feature in the app to find the exact or similar amount of calories from my meal. If I become more serious about my dieting needs, I may sign up for the subscription and see how it can benefit me.
3. Anytime Fitness Workouts: My gym (Anytime Fitness) has a great resource app for creating and tracking current workout routines in the gym. My first day composed of a full body plyometric workout which uses your body weight to do simple exercises (no real gym needed). After I did the routine on my first day, I recorded each type of workout with this app so that I can repeat the exercises (with video demonstrations within the app) in the gym. When I need to change my workout, I can create a new routine and track my progress all within this app. Pretty amazing for a free app.
4. Anytime Fitness (General): My gym provides a free app that provides a social media aspect of recording your workouts. This app isn’t as full-featured as I would like it to be. However, it does track the number of times my keyfob has been scanned at the gym facility. This helps me quantify and encourage me to keep the number high. It also shows any updates my home gym has provided via social media.