Whether you’re in the market for an Apple Watch or you’re keen to take advantage of its fitness capabilities, there is an ever-increasing number of apps to track and monitor your all-important metrics. But what are the best Apps for Apple Watch?
We’ve picked a few of our favourite fitness apps that take advantage of Apple’s ever-improving ios software.
Strava
As the saying goes ‘If it ain’t on Strava, it never happened”, so in order to get it there from your watch quickly, the Strava Apple Watch App is an obvious choice. It’s certainly not the most feature-rich solution out there, but if you’re happy with basic details of your activity and want the convenience of immediate transfer of data to Strava, then this is a good way to start.
Annoyingly, the data isn’t customisable, so you’ll quite likely look for an alternative option as your needs become greater.
Download Strava
Nike+ Run Club
Apple partnered with Nike to produce its own version of the watch offering additional watch faces and a Nike specific strap.
But even if you don’t have the Nike version of the watch, the Nike Run Club is a great choice for runners due to the watch-specific app that features guided runs from some of the worlds leading runners like Mo Farah and Eliud Kipchoge, along with world-class coaches to keep you on track and take you through your intervals. They’ve even provided sessions in partnership with the hugely popular Headspace for the mindful runner.
Download Nike RunClub
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HealthFit
If you are using the native workouts app on Apple Watch, you will no doubt have discovered that frustratingly, there is no way of transferring your data to Strava. Thankfully, HealthFit has come up with a solution to grab your data and transfer it seamlessly.
You can set it to transfer automatically or manually so that you can pick or choose which of your efforts are visible to your loving fitness friends.
Available for a couple of your hard-earned pounds/dollars, we’re fans of HleathFit. It’s worth the small investment if you care about your data.
Download HealthFit
Strong
If you are keen on doing weights at the gym and don’t have funds for a personal trainer, take a look at Strong for Apple Watch.
Strong is a clean and intuitive workout tracker to guide you through workout sets and even includes an instruction library of animated videos if needed. Workouts are synced to the cloud and also sync with Apple Health.
You can use the free version or subscribe to a monthly/yearly fee for downloadable workouts.
Download Strong
Streaks
A really clever and fun way of building new habits, Streaks encourages you to set a daily task that culminates in streaks. It could be to eat your five-a-day or simply drinking a glass of water, but we’ve used it form more fitness-related habits.
Streak is a clean and tastefully designed app. Once you’ve achieved your particular task for the day you simply hit record, then bathe in the glory of your latest achievement.
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Seven
If time is a factor in your decision of whether to exercise or not, try Seven for Apple Watch.
Requiring only your body and a chair, Seven takes you through 30-second workouts with short breaks for a total of (yes you guessed it) seven minutes.
You can go for the full-body workout at no cost, choose from other workouts for £9.99 or go for the monthly option to give you access to their full library of options.
If you are just starting out on your health and fitness journey, this is one of the best fitness apps for Apple Watch to help you for you to get used to exercise without a huge commitment to time or effort.
Download Seven
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