#amexercising

I’m a writer. I spend most of my waking time in a computer chair. I get fresh air with the kids, and I watch the sweets I eat. (Any more change in my diet, and you’re going to have to pry me from the back of a candy bar truck at the moment). We know... I know I need to move and excersie, and it’s hard to find motivation (whether that is at home or going to a gym.) If you go to a gym, you’re looking at tacking the commuting time on top of the work out time, making the day seem longer than a already long day can feel.

I found this great little app on my phone last year. It’s called @8fit 

It has a free and a paid version. I’ve only used the free version.

You answer a few questions and it recommends a work out system (without needing weights or any special equipment) and you can adjust it to make it easier or harder.

You can change out the moves, and it offers you up three options.

It lets you pick this awesome playlist to work out to (there’s like 40 playlist.)

It gives you a warm-up option (in case you decide to do yoga first or need a guided warm-up, it lets you choose.)

It asks you at the end of the work out if you enjoyed it or not.

It tells you the calories you burned, and how many sets you did.

It offers a reminder for tomorrow. (Which I love.)

Along the top of the screen is the days of the week, and a green dot represents your workout.

On the paid version you can focus on arms or legs or an assortment of other niche things.

Before I got sick in the winter, I was doing it every day, felt great, wasn’t dropping weight, but I had better endurance, my clothes fit better, I felt better, and the scale was going down instead of plateauing at 185-190 ish area.

What I really like is you can start to incorporate weights, and at higher tiered workouts they make it easier by giving you those options in the workout.

Did I mention it isn’t just the same workout? The app varies it up between count sets, timed sets, order of activities, activities in general.