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November 11, 2009

Top 5 Fitness Apps for Your iPhone

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It’s amazing we even call them phones anymore, isn’t it? Our phones can now surf the web, double as GPS, locate restaurants, keep our household budgets, and even help us shop for clothes. Furthermore though, they can also help you get fit.

Here are the top 5 Fitness apps for your iPhone, to keep you moving, accountable, and eating right.

1. Loseit!

This app helps you calculate calories consumed and calories burned. It also helps you set goals and gives you feedback with graphs and charts. Its exercise and food library is impressively large, with both generic and brand named foods, but of course there are going to be some missing entries.

Cost: FREE

2. iFitness

This app has everything — fitness tips and tricks, the ability to log your workouts, advice on proper form, and an exercise library to get ideas or see how to do something properly. It can be used both at the gym, or for at home exercises that require minimal equipment.

Price: $1.99

3. iTreadmill

It’s like having a treadmill in your pocket. When you hold your phone in your hand, strap it to your arm or keep it in your pocket, the iTreadmill will keep track of your steps, distance, and pace of your walk, or your activity through out the course of the day.

Price: $2.99

4. RunKeeper

This app is a runner’s best friend. It offers plenty of options for logging run duration, distance, pace and speed, and even has built in GPS to map and record running paths.

Price: FREE

5. iPump

iPump is a personal trainer in your pocket. With videos, images, and audio coaching, you can have a personal exercise program in the palm of your hand. The total body workouts target all the major muscles in the body, and there are even an iPump series that include Yoga, Pilates, and Stability Ball.

Price: $2.99