by Thom Yarbrough

Technology might have made us lazier than we ought to be, but there are some ways in which we can actually reverse the process and make technology work for us so we can become healthier. Some people might be aware of the various apps on iTunes which help you regain your health and fitness patterns as before, but there are so many of them out there that we often don’t know which ones would be most helpful for us. Here’s a look at some of these apps for your iPhone which will help you regain a measure of fitness at least.

Yoga Tutorial

Everyone knows how helpful yoga can be in not just becoming fit but also letting go of your stressful attitude towards life. While we all want to learn yoga and become fit and keen in our lives, we often don’t know where to make a beginning. The Yoga Tutorial in iTunes is an app where you can learn all that you need to know before embarking on yoga. This app connects you to videos which demonstrate how yoga has to be performed correctly and there’s also plenty of yoga related music which can help you calm down considerably.

Eight Glasses a Day

We’ve heard it a million times, we’ve tried to practice eve, but it just gets so hard to remember to drink eight glasses of water every day for a healthy body. Our forgetfulness usually leads us to drink about four or five glasses a day and that about it. What if you could keep a track of the number of glasses of water you’ve had in a day? Wouldn’t that be s convenient? Now that is possible with the Eight Glasses a Day app that will do the job of reminding you! Once you get this app for your iPhone, you’ll see eight full glasses of water on your screen, and as you drink a glass of water all you need to do is tap tone glass, which will then show as empty! If you do finish all eight glasses in a day, you’ll get the benefit of some cool facts as to why drinking water helps us. Just what the doctor ordered!

Six Pack App

If those six pack abs are what you crave for, if you could just die to have that oh so fab body of a model, then this cool app, might just set you on the right path. With the Six Pack App from iTunes which can be downloaded, you can take a look at some exercises and over 400 pictures and detailed descriptions on how to target your chest, shoulders, back, legs, biceps and triceps. This cool free app, is just right for those fitness crazy people!

Meal Diary

It’s true; all that extra weight is probably because of binging and eating more than you need to. But how is it possible to keep a track on everything you eat all day long? Some experts used to say that it helps to keep a diary with a record of everything you ate during the day, but in the age of iPhones and gadgets, this seems quite redundant. Why? That’s simply because you can keep a better track of what you eat and even in a much more convenient way with the Meal Diary app for your iPhone. All it will take is two taps, and you’ll know just what your intake is and how much calories you burnt. This is real easy to make a part of your daily routine, and it also lets you classify your meals on the basis of large medium and small.

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