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Health and Fitness Made Easy

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at USFSP chapter.

Life as a college student can be very stressful between classes, homework, part time jobs, and participating in clubs. No wonder why most college students gain the freshman 15. Luckily there is a lot of technology to help you with your health and fitness goals. Three popular and free apps for females are Lose It, Fitbit, and Pop Sugar Fitness.

 

Lose It

  • An app meant to help track your daily calorie intake along with your daily exercise. All you have to do is set up an account and enter your weight, height, and your goal weight.  Once you enter the information the app will tell you the amount of calories that you should intake to help you maintain or lose weight.  Basically all you do is input everything that you have eaten or drank that day along with the daily exercise. It can even give you notifications to remind you to track your daily process.

FitBit

  • Similar to “Lose It” you create an account and it gives you daily calorie goal. Along with you being able to track your daily food and exercise regiment. “Fitbit” actually takes it a step further by using the sensors found in the latest iPhones and Android devices to track the amount of steps you take per day. They also have different equipment that you can buy so you can thoroughly track your health and fitness process.

 

PopSugar Fitness

  • Is completely different than the other two apps. It is a workout based app for women. “PopSugar Fitness” contains tons of workouts from strength training to cardio. It has videos workouts and pdf workouts that you can follow at home or in the gym. The best part about it is that the pdf workouts allow you to download them on to your phone for easy access.

 

If you are looking for  something to help you with health and fitness goals, download one of these free apps from the App Store or Google Play Store.

 

http://www.appcraver.com/lose-it/

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popsugar-active/id684484023?mt=8

 
I am a graduate student at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg pursuing my Masters in Digital Journalism and Design. I have a strong photography background with expertise in writing, social media, event marketing, and graphic design. Williams can be reached by email at tamiracle@mail.usf.edu.    Life is like a Camera. You focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don't work out you take another shot. ~ unknown
A Mass Communications Major with a passion for inspiring others.Â