in today's video we are going to be going over the best apps
for health and fitness the apps we are going to be talking about today
i use all of them personally every day they have become a big part of my
routine and each and every one of them has helped me to improve
my overall health so in today's video i'm going to be going over the best
seven apps tell you a little bit about them what i
like about them and how i use them
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going to be talking about today are available on both android and apple
and in case you are wondering i am a proud android user
i think the last time i had an apple product was over
five years ago i switched to android and never looked back best decision i ever
made but anyways i did check to make sure
that all of the apps i used are available on apple as well and they
all were so some of the apps we're going to talk
about today are free and some of them are paid so we will cover all of that as
we go through zero the first app i'm going to talk
about today is one app that i am asked about pretty
frequently i think because i showed it in a couple
of my what i eat in a day videos this app is called zero fasting tracker
and it is an intermittent fasting tracking app it is a free app to
download and use but there is also a paid version with
some additional features that is 17 a month personally
i only use the free version i don't really see a need
is to upgrade to the premium the app has four main tools
a fasting timer where you can set your fasting goal
and see how far into that goal you have gotten there is a section called
learn where you can read articles and research on fasting
statistics where you can get an overview of your fasting history
and also keep track of your weight and measurements and then there's a journal
where you can take notes about how you felt during your fast
i basically just use the app to track my fasts
start the timer stop the timer the app is really simple to use and that's what
i like about it simple habit simple habit is a
meditation app that i use every single day it is free to download
and use but with the free version you don't get
access to the full meditation library you have to upgrade
to premium for that and a premium membership cost you twelve
dollars per month i do a five minute meditation first
thing in the morning when i wake up at first this was a really hard habit to
get into i went through periods over the last
couple of years where i meditated for months at a time and then i would stop
for months at a time but i've been in a really great routine
for about the last six months now and it has become a lot easier i
meditate first thing in the morning so i can
start my day with intention and not reaction i won't go too much
into the benefits of meditation but some of the reasons i personally do
it are to manage stress to practice gratitude
to help me become more present and to increase my focus and productivity
and i think you're gonna notice a trend here i
love apps that are simple if there are too many features and too many
things that it wants me to track not about that so i've used a few
meditation apps over the years for right now i'm really liking simple
habits they have this really cool on the go feature where you can click
how long you have and what situation you are currently in
and it picks a meditation for you so you don't have to spend time
scrolling and for this app i do have the premium membership and i
think it is totally worth it like i said i use this app every single
day elevate this is a fun one elevate is a
brain training app that has a free version and also a paid
version for five dollars per month elevate is
made to help you improve your reading writing and math skills through over 35
games every day it has a daily training for
you made up of five games you play the games you get a score and
the games will get progressively more difficult
based on your results the first reason i really like this app
is that the games are fun i love word puzzles and things of that sort
the math games not so much but i will say that i have seen
improvements in my math and also my reading and
writing since i've been using this app when you make a mistake it actually
pauses to explain to you what you got wrong so if you picked a
wrong word it will tell you the definition
or if you got a division question wrong it will break down how to answer the
equation in the easiest way and you can also go
back and see your mistakes after the game is completed
and my vocabulary has expanded significantly
as well and this might be my favorite app
out of the bunch at least right now i usually
wake up i do my meditation i do some journaling
and then i do my brain training for the day so yes for this one i
do have the premium membership and i think
it is completely worth it strava strava is an app that i have been using
for probably over five years maybe even six years it's
kind of like a social media app for fitness it's free to download the
app and to create an account but there is an option to upgrade to a
premium account for seven dollars a month it's mainly
geared at endurance workouts you can track your bike ride or your run
straight from the app or you can upload a workout from another
tracking device or app you use it measures your speed your heart rate
if you have a monitor your elevation etc and one of the
coolest things about it is the segment feature people can create
segments on the map and if you run or bike on the
segments you can see how your time compares to
others this pushes you to want to get faster
and motivates you you can also plan and map out your
routes for yourself sleep cycle now this is an app that i
actually don't use myself but my boyfriend uses it
and i think it can be beneficial for a lot of people
right now this app is entirely free this app is a sleep tracking app that
does not require a wearable device you have your phone next to your bed
plugged in and sleep cycle uses sound analysis
to identify sleep states now i don't think that the sleep tracking
is particularly accurate based on how it works
but what i do really like about this app is the alarm
you can set an approximate time that you want to wake up
and it will sound the alarm sometime during that period
when you are in your lightest phase of sleep waking up during light sleep
will give you the advantage of being more energetic and alert
when you wake up during deep sleep this is when you can feel groggy and want to
roll back over after pressing the snooze button
now i personally have no problem waking up naturally
and pretty much jumping out of bed but my boyfriend
not so much so he has been using this app for a few weeks now
and absolutely loves it oura and next up we have the aura app
now this is another sleep tracker but the thing here the app it's totally
free but you do have to have the device and
the oura ring carries a pretty steep price tag
i actually just did a review on the aura ring a couple of weeks ago
after using it for two years so if you want to know more about
this specifically and how it works all that you can check out this video
afterwards but the gist of it is the oura ring is a
sleep tracking device you wear on your finger
and this really accurately tracks not only your sleep cycles
but your heart rate your heart rate variability your movement
your body temperature and more and even though this one isn't just an app it's
an app and a device i had to throw it in
here because if you are really serious about
improving your sleep and in turn your overall health this is a
game changer and i really like this app because yes
the device does track and analyze a lot of data
but it's presented in a way that's easy to understand
and to act upon whoop and finally we have whoop
now once again this isn't just an app it's an
app and a wearable device but unlike the aura ring
the device is actually free you just have to pay
for subscription for the app and the subscription is 24
a month so i actually just started using this
about two weeks ago and i'm already in love
similar to the oura ring the whoop band tracks sleep
but it also tracks exercise and activity and recovery
more in depth than the aura ring does and honestly
this app is fantastic and that can help you to figure out how to train
each day it gives you a recovery score percentage which can help you figure out
how to train so throughout the day it will also track
your stress and your activity and give you a strain score and this is
on a scale of 1 to 21. ideally you want to keep your strain
score below your recovery score so if you are better recovered you can
train harder unlike aura this app is very
complex it gives you a lot of stats and details
about your sleep your exercise and your recovery i'm
going to do a full review on the whoop band in the next
couple of months so make sure you're subscribed so you
don't miss that but so far my conclusion is that the oura ring is better for
tracking sleep and the whoop band is better for tracking
fitness and recovery and those are my top seven apps for
health and fitness let me know in the comment section down
below if there are any other health apps that you find particularly beneficial if
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