Aaron This post will outline the different apps I use to keep me focused and on task, keep me organized, track my health statistics, and mental health and vitality. This page will be updated frequently until the optimal list is found. I have used each of these apps, but I haven’t been super-consistent with them. I wish that to change, and I am using my transformation to pull the full value of these software applications. If I don’t end up using one or two, or if I find ones that I haven’t yet used and they provide value, I will update the list to reflect what I am currently using.
Apple Health and Apple Fitness
This is an all-purpose app displaying information collected by my watch, phone, and other apps. It is essential to see how my vital statistics change during the day and not have to interact with it for it to work. It collects the information automatically, and I can view it as needed. Apple Fitness has rings that you close by completing a certain amount of daily activity, plus it collects and displays results of my efforts in an easy-to-read manner.
Fitindex Body Composition
This app records information obtained from my body composition scale. It serves as my primary weight measurement system and records fat-free mass, total fat, subcutaneous fat, total protein, muscle mass, and much more. Readings can be done as often as I want, and it tracks each session by date and shows trends in parameter changes in a graph display. Whether it’s argued that these inexpensive body composition scales matter less to me than how they track changes. As long as I continue to use this equipment, the changes in each value will be accurate, which is the information I am truly after.
Lingo Continuous Glucose Monitor
This app records information obtained from my continuous glucose monitor installed on my non-dominant arm (right arm). It records my glucose levels all day, so I can see how each food I eat affects my glucose, as well as learn to keep my glucose levels steady throughout the day. How different carbohydrates spike my blood sugar is more valuable than recording how many grams are in the average food (like fruits and vegetables) or what the package might say. I have not received my CGM yet, but I should in the next few days.
MyFitnessPal
This is the best food tracker app I have used and tried many different ones. MyFitnessPal has everything I need to maintain logs of the foods I eat, the calories I eat, and the calories I expend. It displays the results in a list form by meal, pie charts by calorie and macronutrient, and has average micronutrient contents. Although accuracy might be a little off, perfection isn’t essential, given the extensive knowledge I have in nutrition coaching and food tracking interpretation.
Everfit and Everfit Coach
Everfit is my favorite fitness coaching software. Trainerize is a close second as they are similar platforms, but I like both the client and coach interface of Everfit and how they work together. It contains examples of hundreds of exercises and can create custom programs for any use. I use this software to design my workout programs and utilize them during my workouts.
ProCoach by Precision Nutrition
I love using this app as an all-purpose coaching platform in client/coach relationships. It has daily actions to take for habits, and track more of the less quantifiable attributes. It serves as a journal of the experience and a daily reminder of actions to take. What I love about it is that there are a few dozen different health habits that I can assign myself, and you do a new one every two weeks, and the habits build upon each other. It’s all built into the app, and it is helpful to keep me moving forward.
Holosync
Holosync is a meditation and brainwave app. It has meditations intended to accomplish various purposes, and specific sound therapies to open different brainwave patterns, and helps wake up the brain and calm it before sleep. It is excellent for people with attention, mood, and sleep issues, such as me. I use this app at least once daily, sometimes 2-3 times, depending on whether I have additional meditation time.
Mindvalley
Mindvalley is a collection of “quests” or courses in various brain-related topics, including improving attention, critical thinking, Qigong, gratitude, manifestation, and even more esoteric options such as astral projection and quantum jumping. These educational courses can and will be implemented into my “mental health game” series of blog posts, and the benefits I receive from learning this information.
Stoic
This app is a mental health journal. It has a daily check-in and check-out, and cards containing prompts for you to write about. I initially just tried it for a few days on the free version, but I found myself using it every day, and it was useful enough that I purchased the full version. For those with trouble with regular journaling, this one and other apps, such as ProCoach, allow me to have a more intuitive journaling platform for the daily journal challenge.
Credit Karma
This one is specifically for me because I am working on increasing my credit score. Circumstances ruined my credit, just like many people, but it is on the rebound. This year, I will be working on my financial health. It is one of the pillars of health, and having a good credit score will increase my quality of life and lower my stress.
I am working on this today, and it is subject to change and probably will be. Everybody going through a health transformation will have unique app lists, and this is my take on what technology can offer me while I follow my journey.
