Latest Training App I'm Blown Away By →
I love my phone as a training buddy. I have a Photon. Android duh. For the longest time I have been using my iTouch along with a Nike+ app. We had a good run (pun intended, after I said it). It was missing something. GPS. I know, I could have my Touch strapped to my arm and my Photon in it’s holster. However when I would add my heart rate monitor. Hello Mr. Roboto.
You’ve got to give this app a try.
I want to run a half marathon by August. So I wanted a training plan. I also wanted to make sure I was getting into the gym to increase my strength. So I wanted a training plan (actually I was just hoping for one, but now I know it has one, so it works in the post). The adidas micoach does both! It even created a workout calendar to follow!
The app is very intuitive. I am writing this starting on day one. I am amazed. I have completed an assessment workout that is the foundation for the 1/2 marathon workouts to follow. When I completed it, it showed me my splits (based on gps) for each level of intensity (on your phone and your micoach webpage). The intensity was based on effort, starting at 4 and going to maximum effort of 10. So now it knows, while I am doing my next workout, if I am giving the right effort. Oh yeah, there is a coach that gives you direction while you are working out (music too). You could have a computer dude or chick. You could even opt for Reggie Bush! Kinda cool.
Today, I did my first strength training workout. It had a workout planned from warm-up to strength. Of exercises I have never even done. It was OK, because each exercise had a companion “how to” video for form. It also kept time, amount of reps and sets. Then at the end it gave you the total pounds you lifted, time spent on workout, and calories burned. Pretty cool. However, I do feel like a NERD walking around the gym staring at my phone. Of course that was only during the first set. Then I was able to remember the circuit and finish without glancing at it.
I don’t know. I think it is pretty cool. Enough for me to waste time at work to tell you about it. I don’t know why I haven’t heard more about it. It is way better than Nike’s app and it is a lot more powerful than other paid apps in the Play store.
