High-tech: which app to choose for your sporting follow-up 

Motivation boosters, tracking apps for sporting activity are on the rise. Which download to save your sessions, analyze your progress or compare your performance ? We tell you everything !

The 10 best applications to tracker its sports performance

Sports applications take a preponderant place in training, with ever more innovative features. Following your activity allows you to see your progress and remain motivated: discover the 10 best applications to tracker your sports performance with or without connected watch and find the most suitable for you.

Monitoring applications to measure its sports performance

THE Sports applications are very useful, whatever his practice:

• By materializing the data of each session with encrypted graphics and indicators, they provide objective keys to the results obtained, which allow the right decisions to refine your training program.
• View its progress helps create an effective sports routine: some sports applications send notifications to organize and remain motivated over time.
• With objectives to be achieved associated with its body data and adjusted according to your level, it is easier to find relevant exercises and to improve quickly without overvaluing your capacity.

THE sports performance monitoring tools are in the form of smartphones or platforms on the internet applications. They can use certain sensors of the mobile phone (GPS, Pas or stride counter, accelerometer, etc.) or be coupled with an accessory such as a cardio belt or a connected watch for a more precise measurement of heart rate or other physical parameters. They can also analyze criteria such as sleep quality where the Absorbed calories For example.

Top 5 best applications coupled with a connected watch

Here are 5 essential applications for tracking its sports performance, all that can be associated with one or more models of connected watches:

• Most original : Pumatrac – With its singular approach, analyzing the influence of external elements such as music listened to during training, the sessions schedule or the weather on your performance, this application launched by the PUMA brand will seduce the most curious athletes. It can couple with the tight connected watch of the same brand.
• Most social : Strava – Connectable to any type of intelligent equipment such as GPS, cardio belts or connected watches and bracelets, Strava is turned towards competition, with motivating classification systems and the possibility of studying the routes in segments.
• There Swimmer’s favorite : Swimio – Still in beta version, it works with iOS devices. It was designed specifically to follow the performance of swimmers, who can share their results on social networks and associate it with a waterproof watch.
• Most focused on health : Fittrack Health – This application compatible with iOS or Android smartphones is used with the Attria connected watch or the Balance DARA connected meter of the brand. Permanently have access to your health data to improve your physical condition, lose weight, sleep better and set you relevant sporting goals.
• Most versatile : Ifit® Coach – This smartphone application detects each change of activity for very precise monitoring of your sleep, your efforts, but also your diet. Combined with an IFIT® account, it is compatible with a cardio belt or a connected watch of the same brand and you have at your disposal hundreds of nutrition and virtual sports training councils in video.

Top 5 best sports applications without accessories

These 5 sports applications can be used without accessories, offering each of the different advantages:

• The best proposed free : Google Fit – By simply entering your personal indicators such as weight, age, size and gender, and if you wish, your blood pressure or other more precise data, enjoy complete monitoring on smartphone with A free application drawn up in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). Define your objectives of the week or month and manage the sporting activity recommended by the tool using cardio points or a duration of exercise suggested according to your profile.
• Most popular : Runkeeper – Despite its name, this tracking application is not only aimed at runners, but recognizes more than a dozen different disciplines. Connectable to Spotify or Deezer for example, it can broadcast music and the free version is enough for most beginner athletes.
• There well -noted On the App Store: Sport Tracker – supported by a strong community, this application is highly appreciated for its social side and its possibility of finding new routes with a thermal mapping system. Easy to use and with different features, it allows you to share your performance with your friends in pictures, which helps keep your motivation.
• The special weightloss : Easyfit Calorie Counter – This free calorie counter at the intuitive, design and efficient interface follows both power, hydration and the level of physical expenditure, with 1,500 foods offered in its rich database.
• The ideal application for a home training : Ifit® Coach – Avoid boring sessions thanks to IFIT® general training by accessing muscle reinforcements, yoga sessions and hundreds of training that does not require equipment.

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High-tech: which app to choose for your sporting follow-up ?

Motivation boosters, tracking apps for sporting activity are on the rise. Which download to save your sessions, analyze your progress or compare your performance ? We tell you everything !

Google Fit: the all -terrain tracker
Full of common sense, this physical activity monitoring application takes into account all the efforts made during a lambda day. Of the morning march to go to the staircase work that you go up towards the office, this tracker plays immersion in real life. Obviously this By Google Health App also records sports training (it recognizes more than 100 sports activities). Bike outings, running, fitness lessons, everything goes there and can be archived on a smartphone or connected bracelet.

Our advice: always carefully inform the information related to your profile (age, weight, size, etc.).
Good to know: Google Fit can be synchronized with other sport apps.

Strava: the sport and social app
Like its competitors, The Strava application allows you to trac for sporting activity By capturing the data related to the distance traveled, the speed of execution, the type of effort … that which is defined as the number one application of the runners and cyclists has a stimulating side capable of challenging the sportsmen devoid of any spirit competition: the perspective of everyone’s performance to compare them to those of athletes present worldwide. Real social network, it offers follow -up that it is then possible to distribute in the public flow in order to share its exploits with its knowledge.
To find out more: https: // www.strava.com

Runtastic: The Author App
That would be Running or bodybuilding lover, Runtastic has thought of everything ! The publisher has indeed developed two apps dedicated to each type of activity. Objective: to record your sessions, the distances traveled, the energy spent, the duration of training … In any case, it allows you to follow, record and share your performance with always an idea in mind: to do better and more each day while challenging itself thanks to healthy emulation.
To find out more: https: // www.runtastic.com/fr

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