The Three Fitness Apps I Use Every Day ...Middle East

I use apps for everything from obtaining free stuff to making extra income. I also use them for some extra help on the health and fitness journey I've been undertaking for the last year and a half. I was always active—I teach spin classes, consistently ride my Peloton, and have always frequented the gym—but something really took hold of me at the end of 2023 and made me want to get, like, super active. Naturally, I downloaded all the apps I thought could help me as I set out to keep track of my protein intake, devise the perfect schedule of workout splits, and monitor all my biodata. Here are the ones that actually helped me.

For cardio: The Peloton app

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I like this app a lot better than having to always come up with my own cardio routine or following the advice of a random fitness influencer—the variety is massive and the instructors are so professional. With the big-name brand comes expertise and some assurance that you're actually getting useful, efficient, and safe instruction. The instructors' cues are always clear and direct, new classes get uploaded every day, and I feel like I get a lot more out of this than I would if I just hopped on a rowing machine and worked out based on my own mood.

For strength training: Strong

Peloton also has a Strength+ app that I really enjoy, but if I had to choose between that or Strong as my preferred weight-lifting helper, I'd go with Strong. Available on iOS and Android, the app relatively bare-bones, which is why I like it. It keeps track of my lifts, allowing me to enter in the exercise I'm doing, the weight I'm using, how many sets and reps I'm doing, and whether or not I do a drop set or train to failure. It then keeps track of all that information so the next time I go to do, say, a lat pulldown, Strong tells me how many reps and sets I did last time and what weight I used.

Credit: Lindsey Ellefson

For nutrition: Lifesum

I am a Millennial woman and, as such, have put in my time in the MyFitnessPal trenches for well over a decade. That app has had its claws in my generation for far too long and a few months ago, I finally broke free when I switched over to Lifesum. It was like a totally different world.

MFP has had and still has a lot of features that nutrition pros and eating disorder advocates worry are a little dangerous, like a pop-up notification that tells you what you'd weigh in five weeks if you consistently ate the same amount of calories you ate that day and numbers that turn red when you've exceeded your calorie goal for the day. Lifesum, on iOS and Android, is much gentler than that and is focused more on whole nutrition than a simple, calorie-based model. When I exceed my calorie goal for the day, there is no red number making me feel bad; the pastel rainbow background is as soothing and encouraging as it is on a day I eat at my goal.

Credit: Lindsey Ellefson

Other phone-based fitness considerations

I like to let my phone and other devices do a lot of work for me when I can, so I'm constantly wearing my Apple Watch, which delivers data on how much I'm walking, standing, moving, sleeping, and generally exerting straight to my Apple Health app, which in turn spreads that information over to Lifesum and my other apps. I also use a smart scale to weigh myself and that, too, delivers information for Apple Health to spread around. You can absolutely get too into monitoring your own progress and fitness, so I recommend only getting these sorts of devices if you can exercise some reasonable caution, but overall, the ability to track and access data without doing too much work is really helpful. This is the scale I use, and I love it:

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All of this said, you don't want to spend too much time fiddling with your phone—especially during mealtime or when you're at the gym. The apps above are not time-suckers; Lifesum, especially, works really quickly thanks to its barcode scanner and picture-assessing capabilities. Still, don't get so wrapped up in tracking and planning that you neglect the actual eating or exercising. A simple workaround here is the Steppin app, which works with your phone's pedometer and blocks pre-determined apps, only letting you access them if you are willing to trade time you earned by walking. If you're finding you spend a little too much time poring over your nutrition app or scrolling fitness influencers' pages without actually replicating the exercises they're showing you, Steppin can provide a happy medium, cutting off your app access and encouraging you to get your steps in.

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