Runtastic releases four new fitness apps for Windows Phone 8

Runtastic Fitness Windows Phone

There are a handful of splendid fettle apps in the Windows Phone Store. One of my personal favorites for tracking my workouts is Runtastic. They're a pocket-sized mobile fitness company that take seen tremendous growth over the past year. I like to think hiring a full-time dev for Windows Phone helped with some of that growth.

Anyways, over the past year they've had two apps in the Windows Telephone Store: Runtastic and Runtastic Pro. Both excellent apps that more than or less were similar in features. Even so, on iOS and Android they have a host of other fitness apps. Those apps are now bachelor for Windows Phone. Let's check out their apps that will assist y'all continue track of your push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups and squats.

These 4 apps will runway create training plans for y'all around the exercises and automatically count your reps as y'all practice them. Here's what each app features:

Three levels of sports science training plans, with an end goal of 30 pull-ups in one session
Count of pull-ups/sit-ups/squats using accelerometer
Count of completed push-ups by touching the screen with your nose
Automatic countdown timer for your break between sets
Voice Charabanc
Personal records and do statistics recorded and saved (i.due east. monthly grooming statistics)
Leaderboard for personal records and overall repetitions: compare to others and see how y'all rank with your Runtastic friends
Upload workout activities to Runtastic.com for future review, analysis, and comparison
Social media sharing: Share your strength and personal records with friends via Facebook, Twitter, and Eastward-mail.

Runtastic Push Ups

It'due south pretty clever how the apps work. For instance, you'll put your Windows Phone beneath your face up as y'all dull push-ups. Every bit you go downwardly yous'll bear on your nose on the screen to have the app register one rep. It then walks you lot through a little daily workout that it creates based on your fitness level. Each different app measure a rep in it'due south own unique mode. When doing pull-ups y'all put the phone in your pocket and let the accelerometer measure reps. Squats and sit-ups as well take advantage of the accelerometer.

All workouts are saved automatically to your Runtastic account. Where you can track your progress and run across how yous ameliorate over fourth dimension. And like all good apps, they've gamified the feel and you'll earn badges as yous progress with each app.

Runtastic Sit Ups

Currently information technology is 2:00 AM in California right at present, so I'g non too stoked to effort out every unmarried app at the moment. I did try out Runtastic Push-Ups and actually like the premise of the app. Would it be squeamish to have all of them combined into ane app? Almost definitely. Performance was adept and I didn't notice any major bugs with the few moments spent playing around all the apps. Why am I giving you a quick mini-impression? Because there's no trial for the apps at the moment and they'll set yous back $0.99 each. Nosotros'll have a more hands-on look at these later.

In the meantime, if you want to endeavor out the apps we've got your links to the Windows Phone Store below. QR codes too. The apps are currently 50% off for a limited fourth dimension, so yous might as well pick them up for a full of four buck if you're on the fence.

Runtastic Push-Ups – Windows Phone Store

QR: Runtastic Push-Ups