Updated 10/24

If your personal health & wellness goals for the New Year are already flagging, here’s a selection of fitness apps that might help you get back on track. And if you’re doing OK with your goals, good for you – why not share these with colleagues, friends and family? Most are free, have free versions, or are low cost.

Sworkit – The founders of this apps say that “Sworkit” means “simply work it.” It features more than 500 unique workouts and over 900 exercises, “Whether you’re an absolute beginner, intermediate, or advanced, Sworkit makes it simple to get in shape and stay in shape. Get results-focused knowledge on weight loss, strength, nutrition, and more on our blog. Become a Sworkit member and get all the support you need to succeed with our amazing SworkTeam Community. Or sign up for our weekly newsletter to learn how to overcome your toughest fitness and nutrition challenges.”

Runkeeper – RunKeeper bills itself as “the personal trainer for your pocket.” It allows you to track your running, walking, biking and other activities with a mobile app or log in to the website to get further insight into how you’re doing against yourself or your friends. Among other things, the app allows you to see detailed stats around your pace, distance, time, and calories burned; get coaching through your headphones; measure your heart rate with many available sensors; take pictures along the way to share and save; view a detailed history of your activities; and share your progress with friends – including live maps of your activities.

runtastic – Whether you’re a beginner or a fitness pro, young or old, tech-savvy or not, runtastic says it can help. They offer products and services that focus on gathering and managing sports data to motivate people to do sports and to connect with like-minded people. Whatever the sport, relevant sports data can be tracked via an app uploaded directly to the runtastic fitness site, a social fitness community for users. Shared activities, competitions and incentives within the community increase motivation and further assist the users in achieving goals.

Skimble – Skimble offers Workout Trainer and GPS Sports Tracker apps that help motivate people to get and stay active. Hundreds of workouts are guided by a dynamic audio and visuals. Free versions of the apps are available or premium service with coaches and instructional videos for $25/year. Users can create their own workouts, get phone or email reminders, share progress on social platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and share progress with friends.

Pocket Yoga – For both fitness and stress reduction, this app offers voice instruction and visual guides, illustrated images of different poses and posture, as well as a dictionary of postures and positions that describes the benefit of each.

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