Buying Guides
Once you’ve exhausted the comedy value of pretending to talk to K.I.T.T via your Apple Watch (a good six months, we reckon), it’s time to put the computer on your wrist to work. While the Apple Watch comes with fitness tracking built in, you’ve barely scratched the surface of your wearable’s capabilities unless you’ve loaded it up with apps. We’ve picked some options hikers, runners and cyclists will find useful, as well reference tools that will take you step-by-step through workout plans, yoga moves and bodyweight exercises.
Strava
Despite the abundance of fitness activities available nowadays, cycling and running remain two of the most popular sporting pastimes, and Strava is the ideal app for tracking both. There’s a vast array of data in the regular version, and obsessives can upgrade to premium for even more insight.
Free, or £4.99 per month for premium version, strava.com (also available for Android Wear)
Gymaholic
Gymaholic provides a selection of workout plans for all abilities, and you can also create your own from the vast library of exercises, each of which comes with a guide to how to do it correctly and which muscles it targets. The free version of the app will provide enough depth for most, but there’s also an option to upgrade for even more stats.
Free, or £2.59 for pro version, gymaholic.me
komoot
The app features maps that can be downloaded for offline access and suggested routes for hikes and cycles that can also be saved locally, so the lack of internet in the great outdoors won’t turn your day trip into a nightmare. The app and your local area map are free, but other regions are £6.99 each, or you can get the entire world for £22.99.
Free, £6.99 per extra region, komoot.de (also available for Android Wear)
Pocket Yoga
For those keen to take to the yoga mat, but not quite ready to do so under the scrutiny of a group class, this app can be your guru instead. Over 200 different poses are explained and used in 27 different sessions, and having the images on your wrist as well as your phone means you can keep an eye on the guide no matter what contorted position you end up in.
£2.29, pocketyoga.com
Custom Workouts
Put your whole body through its paces in just seven minutes, using only your bodyweight, a wall and a chair. The workouts are based around a frenetic 30 seconds of activity followed by a quick break before you move on to another exercise. The standard full-body workout is free, and then it costs £1.49 for any other workout you’re keen to try.
Free, £1.49 for extra workouts, perigee.se
This content is from the experts at Men's Fitness magazine.
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