fitness Does using a fitness app help?

[arunima]

Fitness apps and accessories are in things and they are trendy these days. I have seen many using them..I am into exercise and fitness regime from few decades and I am very regular to it. People are surprised when I say that I don't use any fitness accessories or apps. Well, other than my trackpants, yoga pants, weights, shoes, swimming costume for swimming, I use no gadgets or apps. So, how do I track my fitness or keep the goal? How do I stay motivated? ...these are few questions I am always asked. I just follow my heart and love to exercise. I keep varieties to stay entertained and let all my muscles exercised. I don't keep any goals, I just have the habit to exercise and do it daily. I don't need any external motivation. The energy and happiness that exercising brings to me is my motivation.
How about you?
What's your viewpoint on these fitness apps and accessories? Do you use them? Have they helped you?

 

[Lord Severus]

I think fitness applications are important for those who are building their fitness habits. There are many research articles which shows, very compellingly too, that tracking your weight everyday actually helps in reducing weight. Knowing that you are reducing in weight releases a chemical called as dopamine which reinforces dieting and fat cutting excercise.

I dont track my calories, but I track my weight. I am always excited, in the mornings, do measure my weight everyday and lodge it into a weight tracking application.

 

[lens]

I use the fitness applications to track my progress and I also make them as part of my exercise routine. That is not to say that it isn't possible to workout without requiring external devices.

 

[Harsh World]

I think whatever it takes to get someone moving is helpful.

I've used MapMyRun to help me track running progress, but after I got comfortable with 5 miles, I dropped it in favor of remembering landmarks to try and beat that point in my next run. I will say that it did help me get going though as it gave me a perspective on progress.

I now only use Sheets to track progress, mainly with weight, sets, and reps, so that I can know what I did the previous time. It also helps me track specific workouts that I can hot-swap with something else if some equipment is taken. An example of this would be cable flys for the chest, if the cables are taken, I know what I have previously done on an incline bench for dumbbell flys or what I did on the fly machine so that I'm constantly working out and not stuck doing one thing.

I'll also use Sheets to track my treadmill workout with average time and distance.

 

[ActionAce]

Fitness applications function as my accountability tool, so that is why I use them for increasing my motivation toward staying active. One more thing I want to cheap in is- achieving certain outcomes in your fitness journey, simplicity matters a lot. Start with small fitness goals and then advance to a more complex ones. .