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Instead of wasting your time watching mindless videos on Facebook, you can use your smart phone to get in shape. Your phone can be used to form healthy habits, create a caloric deficit, maintain motivation, increase the intensity of your workouts, log your workouts, track your progress, and more. Don’t believe me? Read on.
Form New Healthy Habits that Lead to Fat Loss
Your smart phone can be used to set-up reminders and track your success at completing the three daily habits that will transform your body:
1) weighing yourself each morning
- Each morning, after using the restroom, step on the scale and weigh yourself.
- Bodyweight can fluctuate significantly from day to day. Use weekly averages to find a truer trend in bodyweight from week to week. Bluetooth scales that sync with the MyFitnessPal app make this easy.
Apps like Strides (information video), Streaks, Fabulous, and Toodledo help you develop and track new habits. The Strides app allows you to create instant habits by programing action triggers. You can program multiple reminders for each task and the app tracks your consistency. I recommend setting your food log reminder for the end of the day, so you can complete your log and mark the task as complete. Recording these activities will cause you to modify your behavior by making you more consistent. What gets measured, gets managed!
Creating a Caloric Deficit
The MyFitnessPal app makes creating a caloric deficit easier than ever. You simply download the app to your smart phone. You sign up using your Facebook account or an email account. It will ask you your goal; lose weight, maintain weight, or gain weight. You will enter your level of activity based on your occupation, not your exercise program. You enter your height, weight, and sex. The app will ask you your target body weight and timeline for achieving it. It will also ask you your weekly weight loss goals; options vary between a ½ pound and 2 pounds a week. I recommend one pound a week. You should never attempt to lose more than 1% of your bodyweight per week.
5 Things You Should Know About Food Tracking:
- The more you track, the more likely you are to reach your goals.
- Tracking gets easier the more you do it.
- It’s always better to track something versus nothing at all.
- You can start building the habit of tracking by logging one meal at a time.
- If you can’t find an exact match for what you want to track, just pick something similar.
Staying Motivated
Download a few motivational videos so you always have an inspirational pep talk ready to go when you need it most. There are some great YouTube channels that can provide daily inspiration. These are a few of my favorites: Be Inspired, MotivationGrind, Motivation Archives MulliganBrothers, MOTIVATION, and, Absolute Motivation.
Music and Interval Timers to Rev-up your Workouts
Listening to music that pumps you up during your workouts will help increase your workout intensity, focus, and performance. You can get a good pair of wireless headphones for less than $40.
Use an interval timer to add intensity to your cardio sessions. These apps are great for interval training workouts, kettlebell workouts, and heavy bag workouts.
Log your workouts and Progress – Share them with Supportive Friends
There are many fitness apps available. Here is a great article by Jill Duffy of PC Magazine, The 25 Best Fitness Apps of 2017.
Use your Phone to Promote Personal Growth
Many public libraries allow you to download free audiobooks using the OverDrive app. The files expire after a specified amount of time has passed, typically 2-weeks. With digital files you’ll never pay a late fee, but the file may expire before you finish the book. Audible typically has more titles to choose from than your library, and you can take as long as you want to listen to the book because you own it. Audiobooks are a great way to make your cardio sessions more enjoyable and they promote personal growth.
Audiobooks provide the same benefits as reading, improved: vocabulary, writing, reading comprehension, emotional intelligence, and grammar. If you are interested in finding out more about the benefits of audiobooks, I suggest you read the article As Far As Your Brain Is Concerned, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’ by Melissa Dahl.
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