Ready to get Fit?
Who doesn’t like the results of a good workout - the endorphin rush,
the resulting health benefits and of course not looking like a sack
of potatoes. But trying to figure out what exercises to do and when can be torturous.
Giving me the admin of trying to figure out what workouts I should be doing is
as good as having me eat three buckets of ice-cream a day and enjoy the diabetes. I’m
not looking to become a beef cake with arms so huge I can’t brush my teeth,
but I live on a tropical island and your boys gotta be Summer Ready all year round!
From the moment I started caring about health and fitness I began searching for
the ultimate workout app. Something that eliminates the admin of curating good,
fresh workouts and allows me to walk into the gym,
do whatever the app tells me and go home. Ain't nobody tryna spend extra time in the stinky gym.
I don’t want to be worrying about what muscles I should be targeting, if I’m overworking specific
groups, or if I’m forgetting about others. I’d like it to continually push me without
having to remember what weight I did last time. And hey, if I don’t have to lug my $1000 glass
phone around a bunch of moving heavy metal things, that would be ideal!
I’ve tried apps that verbally coach you and one’s that give you set workouts to
do for specific muscle groups but they just didn’t cut the cake, until I found FitBod.
With some smart programming working its magic in the background, FitBod gives me fresh workouts
for as many days of the week that I want them. Keeping my body guessing whilst targeting all
the right muscle groups is the key to all a well rounded fit bod… see what I did there.
The app takes into account the workouts I log, it knows what muscles I’ve worked and allows
those muscles recovery time by adapting my next workout to focus on muscles that are fresh. This
also ensures no muscle is being neglected so I don’t become a walking meme for skipping leg day!
Set up is quick and easy, you give the app some information
on what your experience level is, what you’re trying to achieve,
what muscles you’ve worked out recently and how often you want to work out.
Let the app know what your measurements are and finally do a quick sign up so that your workouts
can be logged. That’s it, the app immediately works its magic to give you a workout you can
start right away. With additional options for warm ups, cool downs, cardio and more.
You can start your exercises in the suggested order or jump around as you please. All the
information you need is nicely summarized. Tapping on an exercise will allow you to log
your sets and make adjustments to the suggested reps or weights on the fly.
These are all suggestions and can easily be edited. Each time you log something different
than what was suggested the app learns and adapts for future workouts. Don’t know what
to do for an exercise? A video, along with detailed instructions is just a touch away.
Don’t like some parts of your workout? Replace them with something else that will work the same
muscles. Don’t have the gym equipment needed for a specific exercise, you can replace that too,
and you can also let the app know what you have and what you don’t have to work with
and it’ll build your workout around that. You can even opt for a body weight workout which
means you can still push yourself and burn off those calories when you don't have access to
equipment. You can go as far as creating multiple workout environments, so the app knows what you
have available and adjusts your workout.
But who wants to walk around with their phone while at the gym? People do it,
but those people are doing it wrong. A hands free workout experience is ideal and if you have
an Apple Watch, that’s just what you’ll get. With the Apple Watch app, not only are you now giving
the app heart rate data to more accurately track your calories burned, you can see and track your
workout from your wrist, syncing with the phone later when you’re done. There are even gifs of
the workout that you can look at from your watch to make sure you’re doing the exercise correctly.
The magic of this app is really in how little you have to think from workout
to workout. I’m arriving at the gym with a personalised plan for a set amount of time,
and checking off the plan as I go from my watch. No stress, no phone, just a dedicated time to let
my mind wonder as my body does something other than sit behind a computer screen.
I can’t wait to see what future innovative ideas FitBod is cooking
up to make my workouts less admin intensive and more results oriented.
I made this video in response to some requests for what I do for fitness.
Whilst I’m by no means a calorie counter, I have come to love routine exercise and
feeling healthy.
Hit that like button, ring the notification bell and nibble on
the subscribe button for more fitness goodness coming your way. This video was not sponsored,
this is just an app I really use and love and wanted to share with you guys.
I’ve added a link in the description to get you a few free workouts if you want to try it out.