Top 10 Health and Fitness Apps in India in 2022
In the 21st century, everyone is busy and has a hectic lifestyle courtesy of the competition we face in every field of life like earning money, worrying about future aims, or the stress. Has anyone of us ever asked ourselves how should we keep ourselves fit physically and mentally?
Don’t worry, you have many options to choose from to keep your body and mind fit! But before that, we will elucidate why do we need to keep our health in check!
Keeping your body and mind healthy is as vital for us as taking in our next breath. If we keep our body and brain healthy, it becomes easy for people to complete everyday tasks with the flow and without stressing about little things. It makes our subconscious present with us at this moment.
The importance of fitness and health has been taught for many centuries since the beginning of the universe. One of the Veda, Atharveda teaches us about the importance of the human body, mind, and soul, it says: “Good health stands at the very root of virtuous acts, acquirement of wealth, the gratification of desire, and final emancipation.
Diseases rob away the health and the welfare of human life. So, one should strive hard to protect one’s health. To achieve the purpose, a healthy body is a prerequisite.”
Unhealthy bodies and minds refrain us from going forward towards our goals, desires, and deposits our being in the hands of diseases and malign environment. It shakes our focus and makes it difficult for us to carry out our work. In particular, when our mind is unhealthy, if it is under stress, it destroys our relationship with ourselves and others.
An Unhealthy mind gives rise to several mental health diseases like Clinical depression, general anxiety disorder (GAD), insomnia, and bipolar disorder.
Just like an unhealthy mind, unhealthy eating habits also give birth to many physical and cognitive illnesses such as heart diseases, nutrition, calcium and vitamin deficiency, low and high blood pressure, obesity-related diseases, anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa.
These diseases decline longevity of life and worsen our present life if no we don’t put our health first on our priority list. One of our purposes should be to attain health and a prosperous mind and body.
When we are happy from the inside it automatically makes us glow from the outside and the path to happiness can be achieved by performing the activities that make us healthy, fit, and spiritual. ‘Healthy lifestyle is the quality of life that can only be created by ourselves.’
The ways through which we can make a healthy lifestyle are:
1. Cardiovascular Exercises: Endurance workout improves our agility, strength, and energy. It helps us decrease the lethargy that we feel after a long day of work and keeps us active and vibrant during the day.
People who work 9 to 5 desk jobs must include cardio exercises in their workout plans.
Some of the exercises are running that maintains the whole body’s health, swimming, aerobics, water sports, burpees, bear crawls, cycling, climbing, and hiking. Aerobic exercises increase our heart rate and boost the blood flow of the body.
2. Healthy Diet: Nowadays, adults and children ingest an infinite amount of unhealthy food that leads to the inception of many lethal illnesses, it stunts growth in homo sapiens. It has been studied that the regular consumption of junk food in children causes illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.
That is why it is important to add organic food to our diet. Practising the habits such as eating fruits instead of having chips during snack time, avoiding overeating, eating light or healthy snacks after every two hours. The most important habit to adopt is eating breakfast, the most important and first meal of the day.
3. Yoga: The whole world trusts the outcome of yoga. Around 290 million people worldwide practise yoga daily. Yoga is the spiritual form of attaining a healthy and fit body, mind, and soul. Yoga removes many flaws from our bodies and makes our concentration stronger each day.
Yoga asanas like Adho Mukha Svanasana or Downward Facing Dog-Stretch calm our breathing and reduce stiffness in shoulders and legs; Dhanur Asana or Bow Pose reduces obesity, removes stiffness, cures stomach pains, increases the lung power and breathing process; Vakrasana or Twisted Pose improves neck muscles, reduces belly fat and regulates digestion, many other yoga asanas makes our physical and spiritual being better.
Some of the apps that will bring discipline to your schedule in 2022.
1. The 7-minute Workout
7-minute fitness application is the best way for people who have busy routines, and for people who work outdoors this app will bring in discipline and fun to keep you fit and healthy. You can choose the plans you like to define the activities that interest you.
You can dig for any program from the beginner’s, intermediate to advanced training. There won’t be a necessary need for the equipment. It is available on both iOS and Android to download for free.
2. Nike Run Club: Running Coach
Nike Run Club app is designed to mainly work on endurance exercises, focuses on making you active, and strengthens your muscles and core. It has specific programs such as how much distance you want to cover for your run, training sessions, and plans to guide you towards the right program.
It has a variety of training plans and people can choose the intensity of aerobic exercises according to their body type, schedule, and capability. It is available on Android and iOS for free.
3. Cult.fit
Cult.fit brings you the group workout sessions and makes taking care of your body easy and fun. They have the best-in-class trainers who will teach you to keep the body fit physically and mentally. They have an all-inclusive group and solo workouts from boxing, yoga, dance, HRX designed by Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan.
You can perform these workouts at home or in-centre according to your preference. These fun and interesting sessions will make you consistent and you will see the changes and achieve your fitness goals in no time. You can take a 7-day trial. All COVID-19 precautions will take place if you work out at the cult centre.
You can download the app from both the Google play store on Android and the app store on iOS. You can choose the plan according to your convenience from ‘Elite’ starts at Rs.1666 for a month, it has the features of at-centre classes, Elite gyms, Pro gyms, Smart Workout Plans, At-home live workouts & Meditation.
For ‘Pro’ you have to subscribe for Rs.1250 for a month it has the benefits of at-home live workouts & meditation, smart workout plans, pro gyms, and elite gyms, and at-centre group classes of 4 sessions per month.
To have the ‘Live’ plan you have to start the subscription at Rs.167 for a month, it only provides the at-home live workouts & meditation.
4. Fittr
The founder and CEO of Fittr, Jitendra Chouksey, started it as the WhatsApp group to help out his friends get fit but with time it turned out to be the app relied on globally by the participants.
Fittr gives you different kinds of physical and mental training to keep yourself fit like martial arts, yoga, HIIT workout plans, exercises that increase agility, Zumba, strength & conditioning, and a nutritional diet. These activities will help you build a healthy lifestyle, increase mobility and pliability, improve sleeping habits.
They have an extensive number of coaches who will help you maintain your body and mind and allow you to develop different kinds of skills. You can download Fittr on Android and iOS for free.
5. Adidas Training by Runtastic
Adidas Traning by Runtastic’s programs allows you to challenge yourself, and become your best fittest self. You can create your workout, include the movements that make you exuberant, and grant you to have fun at the same time.
You can select the training to do from more than 180 exercises that will help you build your muscles, strengthening exercises, endurance workouts, flexibility exercises, and many more variations in a drill. You can get your personalized training plan according to your body.
You can take part in these workouts that make you stay super active and can record the workout and review your growth from time to time. You can download the app on Android and iOS for free. The subscription plans are- Rs.619 for 1 month, Rs.2499 for the term of 6 months, and Rs.3699/12months.
6. Strava
This application gives you a fun and dynamic way to get fit and allows you to record and share it. Strava’s tracker will track your fitness journey and keep you updated about your health. It will track your daily steps, distance who have run, cycling route, hiking, and overall.
You can train three ways with Strava- Recording and tracking the distance you have run, your pace, speed, and calories burned, taking part in challenges, and competing with others which will allow you to review your performance, and by selecting and mapping out the route you want to take to run, cycle, swim and hike on.
You can use the Strava app for a lot of other endeavors like Rock climbing, gym workouts, yoga, Crossfit, kayak, swimming, hike, indoor running, indoor cycling, and many more. You can build communities and clubs by sharing your accomplishments. The subscription plan is Rs.4,599 for each year.
7. PUMATRAC Run, Train, Fitness
With PUMATRAC, you receive the best and leading training plans that will keep you motivated for something new. It has video-guided drills from world-class fitness trainers and PUMA athletes. You can get your personalized workout plans that will help you get stronger, increase your agility and allow you to feel revived after every workout.
Working out with PUMA athletes will give you insight into how the world-class cricketers, runners, swimmers train themselves and what makes them the top in their field.
You get more than 120 exercises for free and also the best way to train by including other drills also such as boxing, ballet, yoga, running, and pilates. PUMA team brings you the most innovative and vigorous workouts of every kind.
PUMATRAC tracks your heartbeat, distance, pace, and calories burned that helps you keep knowledge of your growth and hard work. Available for download on Android and iOS for free.
8. Centr, by Chris Hemsworth
Centr, a fitness application designed by Marvel star Chris Hemsworth and his team is the most talked-about workout app. No matter what your age, sex, or fitness level is, here, you will get to train with the guidance of the most experienced world-class trainers in the business. You will get the meal plans and workouts that you’ll find fun to do and make you lively.
You get the daily workouts videos which will have HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training), boxing, MMA, HIRT (High-Intensity Resistance Training), strength training, functional training, pilates, and yoga. You can train in the gym or at home or a park and whenever you like with the 30-45 minutes workouts.
This app gives you the easy following healthy meal plans that will be gluten-free, vegetarian, regular, pescatarian, and vegan. You can go for whichever meal suits you best.
The team of Centr will have the following members:
Sylvia Roberts- Pilates trainer
Luke Zocchi- Chris Hemsworth’s personal trainer
Alexis Naim- Holistic psychotherapist
Fabrice Medal- Leading French meditation teacher
Ashley Joi- Cardio & strength trainer
Dan Churchill- Cookbook author and nutrition coach
Ally Bogard- Yoga and meditation teacher
Chris Hemsworth and other trainers and Michelin chefs.
It is available for download on Android and iOS both. The subscription plans are – Rs.2800 for a month, Rs.5600/3months, and Rs.11,100/1year.
9. FitOn Workouts & Fitness Plans
FitOn makes you sweat, lose weight, build muscles, gain strength and pliability with free workout videos anywhere and anytime. The advantage of getting personalized workout plans will help keep your consistency and feel good after every workout.
You will get to sweat it out with celebrity trainers like Cassey Ho( Blogilates), Jeanette Jenkins, Julianne Hough, Jonathan Van Ness, and Gabrielle Union. The trainers will guide you and provide you the knowledge about how to take care of your physical and mental health.
Exercises that will be included are HIIT, cardio, yoga, strength training, pilates, dance, Zumba, barre, and many more. You can search for exercises and workout plans according to your body type, magnitude, body weight, and speed. If you are short on time, you can always get hooked to the 10-minutes HIIT workout videos.
With the help of a trainer you can meditate to help bring down the anxiety and stress level and feel present at the moment, relaxed, and better sleep. You can track your progress and join the workout group clubs also. You can download it on both Android and iOS. You can go pro with the subscription plans like Rs.2199 for 6 months and Rs.2749/1year.
10. Totalfit: Home & Gym Workouts, Fitness Training
Totalfit fitness app will assist you to attain the body you have dreamt for yourself. With its unique personalized training plans, you can achieve your dream body. These personalized workout plans will improve your physical and mental health.
There are more than 100+ fitness trainers and coaches from all over the world who will lead you to your fittest self with more than 120 unique, innovative, and fun-filled workout videos.
Totalfit helps you save your money and time by bringing you at your home the high-quality workout which you can do anytime and anywhere you want. The hexagon updates your fitness level and keeps you updated about your progress. Train your body, mind, and spirit with Totalfit. You can start a 7-day trial; after that the subscription cost will be Rs.1900/3months and Rs.6100/Year.
All of the above-mentioned fitness applications will help you achieve your best self in terms of physical and mental health. These innovative workout plans will make you get off your couch and start your fitness journey now and it won’t be long you’ll start seeing the positive results of your hard work and patience.
Article Proofread & Published by Gauri Malhotra.
