Why fitness app does not actually work

Typically, the top fitness apps in the App Store applications fall to simplistic platitudes workouts. Training for the whole body for 7 minutes, the super-press in 3 minutes - a bait fill up not only a one-day application developers, but also renowned companies like Runtastic. Researchers from the University of Florida tested 30 most popular free applications in the App Store for compliance with standards of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). On history drew attention to the publication The Washington Post.

The maximum number of points that could gain, equal to 14 application. Each of them was evaluated in three categories: aerobic activity, strength and stretching. It is believed that high-quality training in the study of the body should have all three categories of loads.

More than half the applications meet the criteria for aerobic, 90% - the power, but almost all lost when it comes to stretching.

The result of the study was disappointing: only Sworkit application corresponded to more than half of the criteria.

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Sworkit - Personal Trainer

Developer: Nexercise

Price: Free

Runtastic Six Pack Abs, for example, took one of the last places with a score of 0.33. There also has got a lot of other applications, which focus exclusively on the elaboration of the abdominal muscles.

After the publication of an article in The Washington Post with researchers contacted the developers Johnson & Johnson 7 applications Minute Workout (2,44 points), and said that the research is inaccurate, since training in the application based on the guideline ACSM. Richard Cotton - director of college - in response to expressed that the guideline is described very clearly the importance of each of the three aspects. However, he did not rule out that an application even with the minimum number of points can benefit.