My Favorite Fitness Apps

We live in a modern world where we use our phones for everything, I know I do. So overtime I have collected many great apps to keep my health and fitness here are a few of my favorites:

To Track you Workouts: FitList

This is a new find and I am already obsessed, I wanted to be able to journal and track my strength workouts but didn't want to carry a notebook around the gym. I then went on a hunt for a good app and this one had great reviews. I was not disappointed this was exactly what I was looking for. It allows me to record each exercise I did with rep and set counts, this way next time its easy for me to look back and see what weight I used and determine if it is time to increase weight.

To Track your Food: My Fitness Pal

 

I'm sure this is not a new one, it is a favorite for all. It is something I have used a lot over the years. However once I figured out how to set my custom macros and use it to track them this little app became my best friend. I now log all my food daily and watch my macros closely.

A couple other good apps for tracking food and macros are Calorie King and MyMacros

To Lead you Through a Killer Workout: Nike Training Club

 

If you are at a loss for what to do for a workout one day look no further than this app. They have some killer full body workouts. These workouts are great for a time crunch since most of them run between 20-45 minutes but they will have you sweating without a doubt. I love these workouts when you don't have access to a gym or are in a scarce hotel gym because for most of them you only need a set of dumbbells.

What apps do you use to help your healthy lifestyle?

IIFYM- Hiring a Professional

Happy Monday everyone! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, here the crazy weather continued with more ice and snow so we spent a lot of time inside and binge watching scandal on Netflix... but I loved every second of it. Sometimes a couple days like that is just what the doctor ordered.

A couple weeks back I wrote my first post of IIFYM, kinda a brief overview on the whole subject. However I mentioned I would continue with some additional posts on the topic, well with a change in my macro plan I figured now would be a good time for another post. You can catch up on the first post here if you missed it.

Throughout the course of this year I have some big events coming up including my wedding day and some personal goals I want to meet in terms of fitness and nutrition. For this reason I am taking my macros seriously knowing its the best way to help me meet my goals. A couple weeks ago I decided I once again wanted to hire a coach to help me with the process.

A little over a week ago I took the plunge and hired my new coach and I am so glad I did. From the second she sent over my plan I could tell this was the exact change I needed. She agreed that right now I am in a good position to continue "reversing or upping" my macros before it will be time to cut them to loose. However she is implementing a couple big changes into my plan:

• Different macro numbers for lift days vs. non lift days- these include more carbs and protein on lift days
• A weekly refeed day also commonly known as "high carb day" to help my muscles recover

I will check in with her every week before my refeed day and she will adjust my macros accordingly for the upcoming week. I am on my second set of macros numbers from her and I think so far things are going really well and I think the new plan is just what I needed. I cant wait to continue and see how things go.

Stay tuned!