Top 5 Free IPhone Diet and Exercise Apps

Unless you have been under a rock for the past couple of years you know how extremely popular the iPhone is. One of the coolest features of the iPhone are all the amazing apps you can download. If you browse through the iTunes app store you will see they have over 200 apps for healthcare and fitness. They have every kind of app you can imagine. It can seem a bit confusing with so many choices. Below are a list of the top 5 Free iPhone diet and exercise Apps to help you keep on track while you are trying to lose weight and exercise.

Lose It

Making my top spot on my five free iPhone diet and exercise applications, is made to help you succeed at weight loss. With this diet app you are able to set up daily goals and a daily calorie limit to adhere to. It helps you stay on track daily by recording your food intake, your daily exercise and helping you stay in your calorie limit.

This popular iPhone weight loss and exercise app has been featured on Howard Stern, The Today Show and "The New York Times." It helps many people lose weight with its fun and simple features. Some are: it works with or without network connection, you can track nutrients, you can quickly add new foods and exercises to the database and you even have the opportunity to set up a free loseit.com account online.

Diet & Food Tracker

The next on my top 5 free iPhone diet and exercise apps comes from spark people.com, the world's most popular diet and fitness Website. You are able to fully sync the spark people food and fitness tracker app with your online spark people.com account.

You will be amazed at all the resources this app and the Website offers those trying to loose weight. You will find: a food and calorie tracker with more than 1 million foods in the database, a fitness tracker, daily meal plans, a weigh in page and daily tips. And with your spark people.com account you have access to fitness videos, recipes, articles and support form the web's largest healthy lifestyle community.

Footsteps

This next free iPhone diet and exercise app is one of the coolest ones I have seen. This pedometer will count your steps and calories burned as you run or walk. What is really interesting is you can integrate it with your iPod so while you are exercising you can enjoy your music.

Some of the other many features include: a timer that automatically pauses when you stop moving, calculates your calories burned, has a pacer to help you keep up with your desired speed and intensity, keeps record of your daily exercise activity and there is a chime to let you know when you have reached your preset distance.

Jillian Michaels Fitness Motivation

Anyone who has a television has heard of Jillian Michaels the tough, no-nonsense trainer from NBC's "The Biggest Loser." With this free iPhone diet and exercise App you can benefit from all her knowledge without being on the show. To gain access all the features you must create a profile first before viewing features then you will have complete access to everything all for free.

You will be able to use: tools to track your calories burned and pounds lost, charts and graphics to show your progress, videos of Jillian demonstrating exercises, tips and guidance to maximize your workout, motion tracking and GPS to track your workout's intensity and the chance to make your own customized workouts.

Body Fitness

The last on my top 5 free iPhone diet and exercise apps is the top fitness app in over 35 countries. Body fitness is a complete exercise journal that gives you access to pictures, user interface and detailed instructions for exercises. Body Fitness is the only fitness app where you are able to view your exercise plan by the day or month, whichever you choose. They feature over 320 exercises and they are broken down into easy to find categories. The categories include: lower body, chest, arms, shoulders, core, back and even Yoga.

There are many wonderful features of this free iPhone diet and exercise app you can enjoy. You can create your own customized workouts, use their weight tracker for your daily weigh-ins, view animations and pictures to see the exercise and easily find exercises in the areas you would like to target.

Sources:

itunes.apple.com - itunes.apple.com/us/genre/mobile-software-applications/id6013