Healthcare & Fitness

Cychosis

Posted December 5, 2009 - 2:40pm by Marc Peter
Cychosis1Developer: Ron Forrester
Category: Healthcare & Fitness
Version: 1.7.0
Release Date: April 26, 2009
Size: 0.5 MB
Price: $1.99
Rating: 10/10

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Cychosis is one of those apps that can be applied to the fictional category of "Green Apps". The App Store should have that category. Whatever category it inhabits in the App Store, it's a great tool for those iPhone users out there who are emission reducing, healthy heart maintaining, traffic reducing bicycle commuters and sport or recreational riders.

iMapMyRide

Posted August 25, 2009 - 12:56pm by Marc Peter
iMapMyRide1Developer: MapMyFitness
Category: Healthcare & Fitness
Version: 1.1.7
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Size: 1.3 MB
Price: Free
Rating 9/10

Birdhouse

Did you know that the new stimulus package has a part that is all about biking? In the next 20 years 825 million bucks will be spent on this country's alternative transportation infrastructure. Hopefully a lot of that money will be spent here in Boston, where being a bike commuter is downright terrifying at times. But I still do it, logging at least 14 miles a day on my bike, messenger bag strapped to my back, weaving between cars and always on the look out for that deadly door swinging open. I have a little handlebar computer that logs my mileage, speed and a few other stats, but I recently began using iMapMyRide and last week I stopped bringing my computer with me altogether.

iHeartRate Monitor

Posted August 2, 2009 - 3:21pm by Craig Motlong
iHeartRate 1Developer: Endloop Systems Inc.
Category: Healthcare and Fitness
Version: 1.2
Release Date: Jun 15, 2009
Size: 0.9 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating 7/10

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One of the myriad proliferating apps for fitness buffs, iHeartRate Monitor offers a simple and effective way to track your resting heart rate and compare it to your training heart rates, to get a better idea of how exercise affects your pulse and weight loss.

The interface is simple. You find your pulse on your body with one hand, and tap the rhythm of your pulse on your iPhone with the other. After about ten taps, the program extrapolates your heart rate, so you know where you stand. The idea is to know your resting heart rate so that when you go exercise, you can take your pulse again and know approximately how many calories you're burning.