Get Fit: Our top 10 fitness apps to download in 2015

Natasha Gan 12 Jan 2015 updated the 6 October 2015 à 23:34

1/10
Argus
The three elements to the body you've always dreamed of are no secret: diet, exercise, and enough rest in between. Argus helps you with all three by tracking and adjusting your activities, diet, workouts, sleep, hydration, heart rate and weight with respects to your goal. The unique interface displays all the info you need to know in a bee hive tessellation. It's a comprehensive app to help you get in shape and cross that off your New Year's resolution list once and for all.

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2/10
CARROT Fit
If you fancy the express workout concept and you have a great sense of humour, try CARROT Fit. Within the app is your hilarious, yet at times ruthless, virtual alterego whose mission is to get in shape. In her words, "You will get fit - or else." She records your weight, tracks your steps, and reminds you to exercise. She is ready to do whatever it takes — including threatening, ridiculing and motivating you —to make this happen. Are you?
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3/10
Fitocracy
Fitocracy is the embodiment of 'strength in numbers'. Aside from boasting a feature that lets you arrange and track your workouts at an incredible speed, the app focuses on honing a motivated, fit community. Follow other fitness-minded Fitocrats keeping up with their goals, that would hopefully motivate you to keep up with yours. You can connect and chat with them in between your reps. If you get fired up in the face of competition, then we think this is the app for you!
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4/10
The Johnson & Johnson
After downloading this app that's loaded with a multitude of 7-minute workouts, we think it'll curb the habitual "I have no time to workout" excuse. The workouts come in a range of 20 intensity levels from beginners to athletes. Each exercise comes with a post-workout assessment so you know when to level up, if you don't already feel those abs burning!
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5/10
Nike+ Training Club
After pioneering the running app, Nike comes with an app that guides your post-cardio sessions. And what's not to love about having the world's most prominent activewear brand as your personal trainer? Plus, it doesn't come with the usual Nike pricetag! You get to choose whether to get lean, toned, strong or focused and the app will offer you short, yet intense, workouts. Some provide videos illustrating how to crunch those muscles, as opposed to pictures that are potentially misleading. Now time to gear up with your most stylish Nike apparel and start sweating!
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6/10
Pact
Are getting fit and saving money two items on your New Year's resolution list? What if we tell you that you can hit two birds with one app? Pact allows you to earn money by living healthy, including regularly going to the gym and exercising, and eating your greens. It tracks your workouts via GPS and accelerometer, while requesting you to snap a picture of your meals for other users to verify. For every daily goal you miss, you'll see your balance erode as part of it pays other diligent members of Pact. So far, the app claims a 92 per cent success rate. It makes sense because we'd rather commit to get fit than seeing what we saved up go down the drain!
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7/10
Pocket Yoga (S$3.98)
Everything revolving around Yoga is known to be expensive and that's why Pocket Yoga is the answer for you Yogis out there. Don't worry about spending money on a membership at a sleek studio or SGD80 tights, because with Pocket Yoga, you get your very own trainer for just SGD3.98. It comes with a detailed audio guide and visual illustrations done by experienced real-life instructors. The app even tells you the right alignment of each position and when to inhale or exhale. Keep calm and yoga on.
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8/10
Runtastic
The name says it all — it's for runners and it's fantastic. Whether you're just walking, lightly jogging, or training for a marathon, Runtastic relies on GPS to help you track your performance. A voice coach cheers you as you reach a milestone, or complete a challenge you set for yourself. Runtastic also helps you schedule your runs based on sunset/ sunrise and weather data. All of these features, and more, in a sleek graphic appearance.
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9/10
Runtastic Six Pack
We know the story of endlessly Google-ing and YouTube-ing abs exercises to see which ones you like, only to give up because you can't choose... Thats what Runtastic Six Pack is here for. The app has a 10-week regime promising you toned abs or you can tailor your own workout targeting specific areas of your abdomen. We can't decide if the best part is the body fat visualisation feature where the app calculates your ideal body fat range for the perfect six pack or when the music intensifies as the workout does.

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10/10
Zombies, Run!
You can stop dreaming for a zombie apocalypse just so you can put your survival skills to test, because it has become a (virtual) reality for SGD4.59. Substitute your training playlist for Zombies, Run! Imagine a world where zombies are everywhere and you have no other choice but to run for your life. Plus, the life of others depend on you. Your mission is to gather the survivors and rebuild your base into a fortress by collecting critical supplies and avoiding a stampede of zombies. With its intense interval trainings, the app takes a mundane treadmill run to a healthy, active videogame.

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From being your very own yoga instructor to paying you for eating your greens, we picked the 10 most creative fitness apps to help you get that beach-ready body you desire.

Tired of rewriting ‘get fit’ or ‘lose weight’ year after year in your list of resolutions? Well, this could finally be the year where you cross that off your list for good. It’s no secret that a lot of us are unsatisfied with our bodies and staying healthy isn’t exactly a walk in the park either.

But here’s the good news – the app geniuses of the world have come up with virtual tools, a tap away on your smartphones, to help you get in shape and stay in shape. If the ticking clock is your main concern, then adopt apps with workouts that you can complete in just 10 minutes, from the comfort of your own home. If you’ve been slaving away at your fitness game for a long time and have yet to see significant results, then apps that could pass off as your personal trainer would be your saviour – that too without the hefty price tag. And if like us, you enjoy all sorts of (fatty) glorious delicacies the world has to offer, an app that’ll help you regulate your calorie intake would be just the perfect companion.

So, we’ve rounded up our pick of 10 apps that will sit you right up and help you embark on a (successful) fitness journey. Most of the apps are free unless stated otherwise.

Be sure to let us know which one(s) works for you!

Natasha Gan

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