Looking for new ways to get your move on? Here’s a start.
According to a 2024 report, the average American spends 7 hours and 3 minutes looking at a screen each day. When it comes to fitness, a deluge of apps makes it easy for you to spin some of that screen time into gold. Whether you’re looking to ditch excuses for not exercising or want to change up your workouts, there’s an app for that. Thousands of them, actually.
Here are a few to help you focus on the exercise piece of fitness and good health. Though most of them are free to download, there’s often a monthly fee to unlock a wider variety of workouts and information — still a sliver of the cost of a gym membership.
Fitness apps
8fit
Free
If you’re someone who prefers to follow more guided routines, then 8fit is for you. It provides custom home workouts tailored to your body type and goals based on questions you answer. The app also provides healthy and personalized meals and sleep meditation, for a focus on full body health. Along with downloading the app, you can follow guided workout videos on their website and find other helpful articles.
Blogilates
Free
Our next app is a great fit if you’re wanting to get into calisthenics and pilates. Blogilates is a blog featuring various workout calendars, meal plans, recipes, challenges, workout videos, and lots of other content. The website also sells workout clothes, but that’s not necessary if you’re only interested in the fitness content. The blog’s trendy layout and inspirational content and motivational stories will help you feel part of a community while on your fitness journey.
Find what feels good
Free
If you’ve ever looked up yoga videos on YouTube, odds are you’ve run into Yoga With Adriene. That same creator has assembled all of her content into a brand called Find What Feels Good, or FWFG. Along with new exclusive content, she has brought on new instructors to lead videos on pilates and other full body workouts. You can also find informational and inspirational vlogs, and even yoga videos made for kids.
Couch to 5K
$4.99
If you’ve wanted to try running but feel overwhelmed by where to start, C25K will take you from your couch to completing a 5K (3.1 miles) in just eight weeks. The training plan takes only 30 minutes three times a week and allows you to track your runs by distance or by time.
Zombies, run!
Free ($2.99 per month for Premium)
If you need motivation to get moving, this app’s horde of zombies on your tail will do it. As Runner 5, you choose your mission and earn supplies and tools to help save humans from the zombie apocalypse, all while working up a real sweat.
