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12  Cool CREATIVE FITNESS APPS

What better way to train for that 5K than to flee from hordes of zombies? Zombies Run is indeed the best idea for an exercise motivator that we’ve seen in a long time. This app is part interactive horror flick, part personal trainer, and it guides you through interval training while e n m e s h i n g y o u i n a n apocalyptic story in which only you can save humanity over the course of eight weeks. For iOS and Android.

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WATERMINDER W a t e r M i n d e r i s a l l a b o u t reminding you to drink water throughout the day, so that you can stay hydrated. The app has a very simple purpose, but it can still be surprisingly valuable. The interface is designed around simplicity to nail the singular focus of the app. The main screen delivers a single button allowing you to add in a cup or bottle of water that you drank. Available for iPhone, Android and Apple Watch.

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CODY APP Cody offers users inside connections to a fitness community where they can share and complete workouts by following new and old friends. With its most recent update, Cody now allows trainers to post their favorite workouts and fitness programs into the community and your feed (if you’re following those trainers). Cody also allows trainers to share multimedia content within Cody as well, bringing video to the app’s community. For iOS and Android.

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PACT For those who value money as incentive, this one’s for you. Formerly known as GymPact, this app encourages users to put their money where their mouth is. Getting fit and staying healthy are after all no easy goals. Pact uses cash stakes to help you achieve your health goals, week after week.

To use the app, you can chose to make a pact to exercise, log your meals on MyFitnessPal.com or eat vegetables for a certain number of days. Commit to eating healthy or pay the consequences The pot is communal, and there are a lot of slackers out there pouring money into it.

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Sworkit No gym? No time? Stuck in your hotel room? Sworkit is a fine solution for squeezing in a quick strengthening, cardio, or stretching session. It is designed with busy people in mind with high-intensity bodyweight workouts that you can make as short as five minutes and as long as an hour.

All you do is choose the amount of time you have to exercise, what kind of workout you want, and then do what Sworkit tells you to do. If you don't know how to perform a given exercise, examples will be shown on screen to help you out.

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Part of the reason meditation can be so challenging is because it’s hard for us to really tune out from all that’s around us. You start to focus on your breathing, but then you remember that email you forgot to send or that bill you was about to pay – bye bye inner peace, hello little stress moment…

On Calm.com, a soothing voice announces the practice of doing nothing but focusing on your breath—just for two minutes. Or ten. You can choose a scenery, and the length of practice. In the site and mobile app, you choose from several relaxing nature scenes, then select between a 2, 10, or 20 minute session.

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Google keep If you’ve ever woken up in the middle of the night with an ingenious idea only to forget it by the time you get up in the morning, you need Google Keep. The app is the perfect place for note taking, making to-do lists, and filing away any random ideas and inspiration.

Say bye-bye to all of those random scraps of paper lying around your home. And the app even supports voice-recorded notes (because we all know the best inspiration comes when we’re in the shower). The app has a slick, clean interface.

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HUMAN Human is the exercise tracker with a soul. Unlike the Nike+ FuelBand, which counts your exercise using "Fuel Points," or Moves, a popular app which counts your steps or distance travelled, Human uses a concrete goal anybody can understand: 30 minutes of exercise per day, automatically tracking different sorts of physical activity by using the phone’s passive location services.

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PZIZZ Pzizz is an audio-generation engine that is capable of producing over one hundred billion combinations of tracks that sound almost exactly alike. In reality, Pzizz creates a different soundtrack every time you use it. In theory, this helps keep the app from becoming familiar. It uses a randomization algorithm that gives it over 100 billion different sounds. It guides you through 20 minutes of s o o t h i n g s o u n d s a n d s p o k e n relaxation coaching, and you don’t even need to fall asleep all the way to benefit—just zone out until the end of the routine and you’l l feel refreshed.

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CHEW IT WELL Whereas we first thought of this app as one giant jest, Chewitwell is in fact a very serious tool that is designed to help you to eat with the right speed. This app supposedly fights indigestion and (therefore) helps you to loose weight by eating slow. But how slow is slow? Let this app tell you. Cue it up as you start a meal and the timer will let you know when you're due for the next bite.

CARROT Carrot is a sarcastic computer character that wants you to get things done, and there are three Carrot apps that can help you do this. The first Carrot app was a to-do list app, then they came out with an alarm clock to help users wake up on time, and the recent addition was created to make you work out, and it’s called Carrot fit!

Carrot has two personalities. The happy Carrot takes joy in seeing you succeed, and showers you with praise for completing tasks. The angry Carrot hates you simply because you exist, and only takes joy in showering y o u w i t h i n s u l t s a n d p e t t y sideswipes.

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AIRPLANE YOGA

Not afraid of being the weirdo in the airplane? Airplane Yoga will guide you through meditation techniques or simple exercises to lessen tension on your back and neck while flying. If you do travel a lot, Airplane Yoga can help you avoid jet lag and traveler’s fatigue. Created just for people who are looking for an app to couple yoga with travel, Airplane Yoga offers users a way to make travel a more Zen like experience. You can get a good stretch, feel more relaxed and not bother everyone around you.

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