Fitness apps provide users with a convenient way to meet their exercise and health goals. Users can find exercises they enjoy doing, track their progress, and share their achievements with family and friends.
There is no shortage of fitness apps, each offering their own distinct set of benefits. Some offer comprehensive workout programs while others may specialize in specific exercises or training techniques (like Jefit’s animations and videos). Some even provide live classes at an additional fee.
Fitness Tracking
Fitness trackers are a great way to track your physical progress and stay on track towards reaching fitness goals. For example, if you’re trying to lose weight, an app will let you know exactly how many calories need to be burned each day to meet that target – providing constant positive reinforcement that serves as a powerful motivator.
To provide this data, the tracker needs to be programmed with your physiological data such as height, weight and gender. Once this is set up, its sensors will continuously record body movement data which will then be processed by an associated software using an algorithm tailored specifically for you, making it possible to interpret what each recorded movement actually signifies.
Research by this study indicates that giving users more granular privacy controls has the greatest influence on their willingness to share fitness data than perceived risk or trust in a system, thus offering potential design implications for wearable devices that aim to promote health and wellness.
Motivation
Fitness apps serve a range of functions, from exercising (7 Minute Workout) and monitoring nutrition/diet (Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker) to learning how to run (5K Training: Couch to 5K), developing sexual health skills (iKamasutra Lite), monitoring menstruation/pregnancy monitoring/monitoring periods/pregnancy tracking monitoring as well as sleep aids or even specialty exercises like Kegel Workouts/Ab Exercise programs – many can be downloaded free-of-charge while others require subscription or purchases or in-app purchases (for instance 7 Minute Workout/Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker are examples of apps available free-of-charge).
Many fitness apps are tailored to encourage users through gamification features and competitions such as leaderboards. This is especially useful for newcomers or those having trouble staying motivated; another effective tactic for maintaining motivation is providing reminders or notifications; some apps, like JEFIT, even provide virtual personal coaches at a special price! Achieve goals is another proven method to motivate users – apps which offer training programs tailored specifically to individual needs can do this effectively.
