We bring you a small collection of the best 14 applications to design your weekly routines, as well as to track your exercises whether you do them at home or in the gym. It is a series of applications for your mobile phone, with explanations of exercises and the design of your sessions.
We are going to try to make them all free or have a free mode so that they are available for both Android and iOS. If you think we have left out an important application, we invite you to share your proposals in the comments section so that other users can also benefit from your knowledge.
Aim Harder: WODs at home
We start with Aim Harder, a free application for training at home that will help you whether you are a beginner or an experienced athlete. If you are a beginner, the app offers you numerous videos explaining each exercise, as well as recommendations for each workout.
The app will allow you to save and analyze your workouts, with the option to share them with other users. You can customize your workouts, you have WODs, and it allows you to analyze your strengths and weaknesses to work on them.
- Available for Android and iOS
Home exercises: No equipment
This is an application specially designed to do exercises at home without having to go to the gym. To do this, the app has a wide list of exercises that you will all be able to do only with your body weight, and without needing any type of device.
The app will allow you to create and edit your routines, including warm-up and stretching ones. You can also record the progress of your workouts, and you will see all your information in graphs. It also has exercise reminders, a personal trainer, and videos or animations to learn how to do the exercises.
- Available for Android and iOS
Fitness & Bodybuilding
This is an exclusive application for Android, designed to provide you with training plans for bodybuilding, strength training, muscle toning, and other general conditioning. It offers you pre-established workouts, but you will also be able to add your workouts with personalized exercises.
The app also gives you detailed descriptions of each exercise, and all of them are designed for specific muscle groups. You also have photo and video guides, a diary to record your workouts, and a history with interactive graphics with everything you have been doing.
- Available for Android
FitNotes
It is an application that may not have a very refined design, but it is simple and allows you to record your training and your body measurements, designing your weekly routines by creating groups of exercises. Unfortunately, it only has a version for Android.
In addition to this, it also gives you some very valuable statistics, such as training volume, recording different records, number of sets and repetitions per muscle group, among many other useful statistics. It’s free with ads.
- Available for Android
Gymboss Interval Timer
It is a free application, although with some purchases within it. What it does is replicate the brand’s traditional interval meter, although it includes programmed workouts of various types. You will also be able to create your workouts, editing intervals and rests.
This application also implements your playlists so you can listen to music while you use it without having to leave it. The app also has a system of sound signals to know where we are going and how many rounds we have left without having to look at our phones.
- Available for Android and iOS
HeavySet
This is another exclusive app for iPhones, and it has been one of the references in this operating system for a few years. It has a simple, but not sparse, interface where you have practically everything you need to configure and record your workouts.
In addition to this, the application allows you to design your routines by programming the exercises you want to do, and you will even be able to share these routines with other people. By setting up routines, you’ll be able to determine the exercise, intensity, or rest afterward, all with exercise history and many other options.
- Available for iOS
JEFIT
An application that has been one of the references for years when planning and recording your workouts. In addition to your mobile phone, you can also use it on your smartwatch to make it easier to keep track of your exercises without distractions. You can also track your body measurements.
The application has a library of more than 1,400 exercises and thousands of training plans, and you will be able to configure them to suit you and understand the parts of the body you exercise. It also has a rest timer and an intuitive system to record the exercises you do.
- Available for Android and iOS
Nike Training Club
The popular sports brand also has a complete training application, focused primarily on your workouts at home. It is a free app with about 200 exercises of all kinds, which will help you both in your physical and mental strength.
The exercises are very varied, and range from strength and resistance to yoga and mobility. You can choose not only the type of training but also the time you want to dedicate to it. In addition, many exercises have variants to do with or without materials.
- Available for Android and iOS
Seven
This is an application with a different approach and is designed for people who do not have much time a day to dedicate to exercising. Its premise is to help you design training sessions to do for seven minutes a day for seven months.
You will do this challenge with intense routines that you can do wherever you want, with personalized exercise plans and more than 200 exercises available. You can indicate your goal and your fitness level, and the app will help you design your weekly routines.
- Available for Android and iOS
Stark Bodyweight
Stark Bodyweight is an application with which you can design your workouts, and it has 102 exercises presented in videos to learn how to do them. The sessions have timers and to be able to do exercises, which can be explained to you in a guided way.
The application will allow you to create your workouts, with a reward system to motivate you, and exercises aimed at specific muscle groups.
- Available for Android and iOS
Strong
This is an application focused on strength training such as Starting Strength, Strong Lift, or 5×5 among others, hence its name. It allows you to record all your workouts, with body measurements so you can see the evolution of everything.
To better see this evolution, the application offers you several types of interest graphs with your data, as well as a record of your records and their history. All this, at the same time, can create your training sessions with a timer and explanations of each exercise.
- Available for Android and iOS
Strongly
This is another exclusive application for iOS, and it has a peculiar design in which you can see the presence of spheres similar to those of the Apple Watch to mark how you complete your work. It comes preloaded with over 250 exercises, and you can also create any you see that aren’t listed.
For the rest, the app allows you to create unlimited routines and unlimited workouts, being able to plan your days, and then keep track of the exercises you do. It also integrates with HealthKit so that your exercises are recorded in the health application.
- Available for iOS
Total Fitness
It is an application designed to help you train at home and has more than 100 different exercises. For each exercise, you have a complete explanation of how to do it, with videos and images, and you are told which muscles are involved.
In addition to this, you will be able to plan your weekly workouts with various routines, deciding if you want them to be intense or softer. You also have guided routines, challenges to challenge yourself, creation tips, and graphs to see how you are evolving.
- Available for Android and iOS
Virtuagym Fitness
An application in which you will be able to design your workouts, and you have more than 4,000 explained exercises, as well as predefined workouts that you will be able to do at home or in the gym. All this with 3D videos to explain the exercises.
The app allows you to create your personalized routines and offers reminders not to skip any and a reward system to motivate you. You will also track your exercises with more than 30 different values.
- Available for Android and iOS
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