How can David Nail help improve your Fitness?

Continuing on in our series of articles about fitness crazes and the apps that accompany them a question came to me: "How can David Nail help improve my Fitness?" Not as random a question  as you might think ! I'll let you in on my thought processes here:

Yoga and Crossfit for your Iphone

Carrying on from our recent posting about Zumba for your smartphone we're now going to look at some of the best yoga and crossfit apps for Iphone.

Crossfit Total Fitness Log

Carrying on in the spirit of the silly party season you're going to need something to get your bodies and minds back in  order, so hopefully with these yoga and crossfit apps you can party hard in the night, using your Iphone to take silly drunken photographs and videos at your chosen party and then the next day come back down to Earth and use that same Iphone to do your Yoga for beginners (or experts if you're advanced and if your aching head is up to it!) or feel even a little bit more energetic and launch into your series of crossfit exercises.

Starting with crossfit workouts first there is an abundance of apps on the market to just keep track of your Crossfit exercises and Crossfit workouts-these include: Roboboogie's Iphone Crossfit app and Mauricio Carneiro's Crossfit Total  which gives you access to Crossfit workouts of the day and helps you to log your training.





So on to the other Crossfit Apps , generally they can be divided into the log your Crossfit workout style of app and those that give you a Crossfit workout of the day. Workout of the Day is one that's caught my eye because of their mention of The Jailhouse Ten  which apparently is a workout that is great if you're in a prison cell! Well if you're reading this from a prison cell and you've got access to an Iphone well done to you! 

Crossfit exercises should be functional, high intensity and  make the most of a workout on a short time Workout of the Day-Daily Fitness Exercise   certainly delivers on this exercise promise with some very high intensity and tough workout delivered to your phone every day. These crossfit exercises might not be what you want to do with a hangover but they will certainly get your body working at its peak! 


Yoga Yoga wherefore art thou Yoga, I'm exhausted from just writing about those Crossfit exercises so it's definitely time to take it down a notch, destress and write about some of those Yoga apps for Iphone. I'm going to aim this at yoga for beginners as I'm guessing that if you've been on the Yoga Yoga bandwagon for a while you'll already have sourced some of the better apps out there.

Most Yoga apps follow a very similar format mostly being in the form of Yoga Flash Cards and if you're lucky a bit of Yoga narration and sequencing will be thrown in for good measure.

I'm going to speak about two of the most well known Yoga apps on Itunes as they come highly recommended, Deepak Chopra is a name that I know well, a legendary new age guru and campaigner for better lives through conciousness. Tara Stiles is not a name I recognise but looking up information as here it seems that she is a modern day type of Deepak Chopra , helping people to enhance their lives through practices such as Yoga. These two have joined together to create one of the best Yoga apps on Itunes: Authentic Yoga with Deepak Chopra and Tara Stiles 


The app comes highly recommended allowin g you to conduct your Yoga exercises with a variety of music or the learned voice of Deepak as instruction. Tara will also guide you through the various Yoga poses and the app will grow with you as it caters to the Beginner in Yoga to Yoga professionals.

Yoga Stretch is also one of the most highly regarded apps on Itunes amongst Yoga practitioners . You can create and save up to five of your own Yoga sessions and use your own saved music to conduct the Yoga Exercises to. This Yoga app has been all over the news and even featured on USA Today so apps don't come with more credentials than that.


So there's your selection of Crossfit workouts and Yoga apps to help you through this festive season. Party Hard knowing that you'll be able to get your mind/body equilibrium back on track with these apps. Enjoy!

Get exercising with your phone and earn your Zumba tattoo!

Have you noticed how tattoos and fitness go hand in hand? So naturally it follows that if you're a Zumba exerciser (protagonist; practitioner; supporter?) you should get a Zumba tattoo! Or failing that if Tattoos aren't your thing (what not even a Dragon tattoo - don't be such a prude) you can join Gametrender on our quest to find the best Zumba apps for you iPhone and Android.


Another reason that I've mentioned tattoos and Zumba in the same article is that it is coming up to silly season, with the endless round of parties you just know that someone is going to get far too drunk and go out and drunkenly get a tattoo (perhaps they'll even read this article and get that Zumba tattoo-if you do please post in comments we'd love to see it!)

But look we've found: Tattoo Tycoon for Android

Just had to be an app out there to go with this article! Well the legendary Handy Games don't disappoint with their time and tattoo management game .Manage your own tattoo studio: Zumba tattoo-no problem; Dragon tattoo highly popular but difficult. Tatto Tycoon will keep you occupied and your mind off that drunken party tattoo you got as you frantically manage your studio and design new tattoos. Perhaps you too could be the next MIAMI INK

The cast of Miami Ink: Any drunken Zumba inspired tats lads?

Okay let's forget about Miami Ink and tattoos for the meantime and get back to our main business of finding a Zumba App for your smartphone! 

Zumba Wii

Surely there should be some Zumba apps out there as the fitness craze has been around on Xbox 360 for ages and is now taking the Wii Fit by storm, Wii Zumba has had an enormous amount of success .






So are there Iphone and Android Apps that can take the place of a Zumba Class?


The answer is Yes but for the sheer workout I still think that either the Wii Zumba or an actual Zumba Class is probably better:


Zumba with Kelly Saskatoon

The official mobile app of Zumba Fitness with Kelly of Saskatoon. Keep up to date with the latest activities, social networks, news, videos and more.

Carrie Zumba App for Zumba classes in and around Ipswich. The App also explains what Zumba is and it has a few taster steps, so you know what to expect. 

It seems that Zumba apps for Android and Iphone are actually quite few and far between, I've looked deeply into the Zumba classes and dances you can do with your phone and it seems that of the tiny handful of apps out there most of those just seem to at the best show you videos of the workouts and at the worst overcharge you for your Zumba app and just provide a video link to a collection of Youtube Zumba videos that you can find yourself. Those Zumba apps that I've featured on this page seem to be the best out there (Zumba Saskatoon is available on Iphone too).

So thoughts about becoming a superfit workout star and getting that first Zumba tattoo aside it still seems for now that a better option might be Wii Zumba or actually getting off of the couch and going to a real Zumba class!

Too energetic? Gametrender covers Yoga Apps too!

Let's Zumba!