20. Keeping Fit and Healthy
In this chapter, you discover a variety of health and fitness apps for your iPad.
Exploring Health and Fitness Apps
Exploring Food and Nutrition Apps
Many people use their tablets to help them manage their daily health and fitness needs. You can find workout and yoga apps, food and nutrition apps, even apps to help you find important medical information. These apps add more value to your iPad and can help you keep healthy!
Exploring Health and Fitness Apps
When it comes to staying fit, nothing beats the combination of a healthy diet and a regular exercise routine. I cover diet-related apps in the next section, but for now the focus is on the fitness end of things.
Discover Exercise and Yoga Apps
It’s important to make sure you get enough exercise each day. Here are some of the more popular apps you can use to track your daily exercise and guide your workouts.
FitOn: Fitness Workout Plans (free) helps you get fit and lose weight. It includes a variety of different workouts, including cardio, HIIT, strength, yoga, Pilates, and dance.
Sworkit (free with paid subscriptions available) offers a variety of personalized video workouts, from 5 to 60 minutes long. You get a limited number of workouts for free, but you need to pay for a monthly or yearly subscription to get a much larger selection.
Daily Yoga (free with in-app purchases) gets you started with a variety of entry-level exercises.
Finding Health and Fitness Apps
You can find all the health and fitness apps discussed in this chapter—and more!—in Apple’s App Store. Just launch the App Store app and search for a particular app by name or type.
Exploring Food and Nutrition Apps
When it comes to staying healthy, exercise is just part of the equation. You also need to watch what you eat—which you can do with these dieting and food apps.
Discover Dieting Apps
Check out some of these more popular apps to keep track of what you eat—and eat healthier!
My Diet Coach (free) helps you set diet goals, tracks your calorie intake, and motivates you with tips and photos.
MyFitnessPal’s Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker (free) is an easy-to-use calorie counter with a huge database of more than 11 million different foods.
When you want to eat healthy, MyPlate Calorie Tracker (free) tracks everything you eat with a database of more than 2 million food items.
Discover Cooking and Recipe Apps
Whether you’re trying to eat healthy or just want to spice up your dinner routine, check out some of these popular cooking apps for all types of cuisine.
Use the Allrecipes Dinner Spinner (free) to access popular recipes from the 30 million members of the Allrecipes community—and watch more than 1,000 step-by-step cooking videos, too!
The Betty Crocker Cookbook app (free) offers more than 15,000 recipes inspired by the best-selling Betty Crocker cookbooks.
Yummly Recipes and Shopping List (free) offers more than 2 million unique recipes and lets you create your own menu plans and shopping lists.
Exploring Medical Apps
There’s a ton of medical services and information available on the Internet. The following apps let you access that information—and better track your own medical needs.
Discover Medical-Related Apps
The following apps let you access large online databases about medical conditions, symptoms, and medications. (You still should contact your own personal physician if you think there’s something wrong, of course!)
The Drugs.com Medication Guide app (free) lets you look up prescription drug information, identify any random pills you might have lying around the house, check drug interactions, and manage your prescription records. Other popular medication-related apps: Coverage Search (free) and Pocket Pharmacist (free).
Medical Dictionary (free) is a medical dictionary app with more than 180,000 medical terms, 50,000 audio pronunciations, and 12,000 images.
The WebMD app (free) is a one-stop shop for everything medical, including a huge database of medical conditions, a symptom checker, medication reminders, drug information, first-aid essentials, and local health provider listings.
