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Reviews of popular wellness apps for meditation, diet, and fitness from a real user.
Swing Perfect is a simple app that works for recording batting practice sessions. As a free app it is a great alternative to some of the more costly analysis options. The app itself makes it easy to analyze and improve your swing, although it leaves the exact mechanics and improvements up to you or a … Read more
Tracking your health and consolidating activity data can be a pain. Thankfully the major mobile device makers have each provided a solution. Those top trackers are Google Fit, Apple Health, and Samsung Health. Each of these primarily starts as a step and activity tracker on their primary device, but by diving into the details and … Read more
Finding a new place to hike can be tough. Thankfully apps like Trailforks exists to help explore safe and established trails in your area. In this Trailforks review we cover the best uses of the app, when to do more research, and other apps to consider when planning you hike. So let’s discuss, is Trailforks … Read more
Many options exist when trying to select the best daily wearable for step tracking and other wellness tracking. Each of the major tech companies now offers some form of their own wearable, including Amazon. There version is the Amazon Halo Band and Amazon View bands. While Amazon Halo Band compares well to the FitBit and … Read more
When training for climbing one of the ever present discussion is around what grade you climb. The difficulty is two fold, first that grades are subjective, and second that routes are so dissimilar. Each route can vary across gyms and setters, and even outdoor rock has day to day weather and conditions that influence how … Read more
Veloviewer is one of the add ons for Strava, in our growing list of extensions to get more out of your activity data. While the name suggests that the app is designed for cyclists it pulls in all activities, not just rides. A major limitation of Veloviewer is the cost. There is a free option … Read more
This post is one is a series that looks at all the top extensions for Strava. Each extension has it’s own flavor, with the majority of them looking to help dive into data and analyze workouts. Squadrats is one of the outliers in this list though as it’s analysis is more of a game. It … Read more
If you have been a Strava user for some time then you likely have a small mountain of useful workout data locked up on the platform. While Strava does a good job of displaying this data, and Strava Premium Subscription extends this, there are still some ways to display data that simply do not make … Read more
There is a free version of Strava with plenty of great usability, but for full access to their slate of features a Strava Premium Subscription is required. The service is an annual subscription which is used to be available for $60/year. Updated in 2023: Strava recently updated the cost of a 1 year subscription of … Read more
It is no surprise that each activity tracker winds up having their own metric for how to measure overall health and fitness. Google Fit is no different, as they default to a “Heart Points” score. This is unique from things like VO2 max, which is a popular fitness metric from Apple products, and is more … Read more
