Smartphone Apps Can Workouts machen mehr Spaß

Can latest technology, together with zombies, bulls and race car jog

By Dennis Thompson

HealthDay reporter

Friday, May 31 HealthDay News)-you're jogging at a steady pace, enjoy your favorite music via headphones. Your breath is short, and your heart pumping. Her legs felt they could not enter any faster.

And then you hear the groan from a zombie over the right shoulder. It is Sprint or be eaten.

The zombie apocalypse is not on you. You are only the latest fitness craze-smart apps take part to make a fun and interactive game from your daily workout.

Software developers take smartphones advanced technology-GPS, accelerometers, MP3-player - creating "immersive" fitness games, which appeal to avid and reluctant to face the user.

It is a part of a general trend in the fitness to your daily exercise "instead a fun experience of something you do," industry, Jessica Matthews said, an exercise physiologist for the American Council on exercise.

"We try more"play opportunities in contrast"to develop, to move people basically and have fun while they do it," said Matthews, noting that Fitness trainers include game in Group and individual exercise, as well as promoted.

A popular fitness game app, zombies, run!, puts into the role of a runner's supplies for a walled community attempting to survive walking dead against the.

During your run complex story unfolds the game surprisingly over your headphones. It is for the community, such as along jogging "pick up". At certain time intervals, you are warned that zombies in the vicinity are, and if you the pace not pitch stocks you by prisoner to keep.

The game does not end when your jog is over. After the training you can stocks you picked up during your run to attach your community. The GPS statistics from the computer running are automatically uploaded on the site, so that you can check, that you "burn your average speed and estimated calories".

Use other fitness game apps in different scenarios.

BullDash, for example puts you in the middle of the operation, driving bulls in Pamplona, Spain with immersive audio, you forward, so that you get a taste of the horns. Fit Freeway makes you the engine of a race car, you drive while on a treadmill or elliptical machine. The phone accelerometer movement takes your stride-the faster you drive, the faster your car drives. Tilt to steer the phone left or right.

Fitness apps, a tack more social meeting are also available. Teemo, Nexercise, and Fitocracy can to share post from your latest training with friends. Have some games, working with friends on a common target-a relay race, for example-complete, while others contest encourage to reach.