Cleveland Clinic Wellness Enterprise

By Phillip Levin on January 25th, 2012 Who needs a real-life personal trainer with apps like these? Forget paying for a personal trainer. The App store is overflowing with personal trainer replacements in the form of health, exercise and diet-related apps. But with hundreds of apps to choose from, users might feel overwhelmed with options. Indeed, it’s difficult to figure out where to start. That’s why we’ve come up with four of our favorite fitness apps that will give users the resources of a personal trainer, without actually having to hire one. Wellness Tip of the Day This app is great because it offers a variety of broad health-related information. The app updates daily with health and wellness tips from the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Enterprise. Tips are classified into different categories, such as Food Favorites, Mind Favorites, Body Favorites and Misc Favorites. The app features two different interface styles – one that lets users pop bubbles to view tips and another more traditional, calendar view. FREE! iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Released: 2009-07-06 :: Category: Healthcare & Fitness Daily Burn Part of staying healthy requires balancing one’s diet and exercise routine to achieve optimal results. That’s why Daily Burn makes my list. The app helps users gain weight or lose weight, depending on their needs. Users can choose to follow a plan that’s low-carb and will lead to weight loss, use a bodybuilding routine that will lead to increased muscle mass or choose from one of the app’s many other programs. In addition to tracking calories, protein, carbs and other nutrients related to diet, Daily Burn also helps users by providing a fitness training program that will lead towards accomplishing their goals. And with stat-tracking and data analysis through the app’s website, it’s difficult not to love this app. FREE! iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Released: 2010-09-28 :: Category: Healthcare & Fitness Fitness Builder This is the most expensive app on my list of recommendations, but there’s reason for it. Fitness Builder contains over 200 different workouts, spread out across 5,600 images and videos, as well as specialized tracking tools and fitness plans. This is a truly comprehensive exercise app, hence the subscription cost. Users aren’t coughing up money for nothing, though. The app also allows users to ask the company’s physiologist their own personal questions. Definitely a nice Read More

Today I ‘m posting 3 delightful apps I ‘ve recently discovered and grown to really like. StarTime As my iPhone app addict husband quickly taught me, the App Store is chock full of apps that display time and time related stuff in really cool ways. I really like the look of StarTime – a Star Trek themed clock app for iPhone and iPod touch. The developers had hoped to have the app released for the movie earlier this year, but had a few rejection hurdles to overcome. The app delights with appropriately geeky sounds paired with bright colours and blinking lights in a familiar Star Trek design. It does date and time but not much else. Settings allow you to turn on/off this or that effect. Future updates promise landscape mode, more skins and an alarm function. I kinda wish I could change colour scheme from purples to blues but that ‘s just me. StarTime is available on the App Store for € 0.79 / $ 0.99 Wellness Tip of the day This app delivers daily fitness and health tips for free by the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Enterprise. Given the relatively dry subject matter, the makers of this app have chosen a very creative UI to display the archived tips. Various sized colourful balls bounce around the screen. You can flick the balls around with your finger or simply shake to see them scramble. Alternatively the balls can be aligned in a calendar view. Tips can be stored as favourites or shared via email. The screenshots do not do the graphics justice. You have to download the app to see it in action. So this app not only delivers info that is good for you but it ‘s fun too! Simply Lists I happen to be the world ‘s biggest procrastinator (just ask my mother). So I admit I am a born sceptic of pesky complicated multi-faceted to-do list apps promising to bring productivity and efficiency to my routine. I mean, could I realistically expect my inner sloth to get things done systematically? Time to try another list app… The beauty of Simply Lists is in the fact that this app does exactly that. It lets you simply compile the lists you need – grocery or work lists, with/out reminders or priorities. It is really easy to use, easy to edit, easy to like. Organize, group and filter list items using tags, import Read More