5 fitness apps on this world yoga day. Gift yoga to your body and soul
Yoga has countless benefits – It brings wonders to health if practiced habitually it might be just an exercise, for some its meditation and for others, its relaxing to ease stress. Including yoga in daily lives is beneficial because it improves sleeping habits, depression and heart ailments, etc. As the world is all geared to celebrate International Yoga Day on 21st June, this time the situation is different.
This pandemic has transformed life upside down so people will not be able to celebrate day in the normal ways. Practicing Yoga is not an easy task – one has to know about the right pose, right posture, and time to hold that posture. Hence we bring a list of 5 must-have apps for you to practice yoga with safety and at the comfort of your home.
1. Fittr – fitness start-up based at Pune. Previously it was known as SQUATS Fitness Pvt. Ltd. It is a biggest online fitness company that offers professional sustenance for all fitness and health matters. Launched in January 2016, FITTR has been serving millions of customers with the right knowledge and tools and helping them live a healthy lifestyle. Today, FITTR has 200+ consultants on board and recorded 1,00,000 fitness transformation stories that are increasing every day. The first breakthrough of the brand is launch of app – FITTR in 2018. It provides right knowledge to people to attain fitness & health goals. The app offers smooth experience at a free subscription and is an effective choice people can make to get fit on a budget.
2. Daily Yoga App: An app useful for all people, beginner or advanced. It provides over 200 yoga classes and 500+ poses with thorough voice directions. It has organised plans for body toning, strength, weight management, flexibility, relaxation, menstruation, detox body and meditation. Here you will get step by step instructions for all yoga asanas. The app is available worldwide in 7 languages that are English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, German, and French. The app offers in-app purchase but some classes are available for free.
3. Yoga Studio: App is for everyone; learner, intermediary, and progressive, with above 80 Ready-made yoga & meditation classes with full HD video. One can make list of yoga and track fitness development on scheduled basis. It has a provision to focus on strength, flexibility, relaxation, balance or a mixture of all four. The app offers in-app purchase. some videos are available for free but you have to pay for full access.
4. Curefit: Curefit is an app-based service provider that aims to address preventive healthcare through a combination of engagement, coaching, and delivery using a mix of online and offline channels. Currently, cure.fit live offers live fitness classes across formats such as strength, dance, boxing, HIIT, HRX, S&C, and yoga on all days of the week. These live classes are also amenable to users across different fitness levels and do not require any equipment. Cure.fit also offers live guided meditation, sessions, cooking sessions, podcasts as well as talks with experts on various topics related to health and fitness. After an initial 14-day free trial, customers will be given access to limited videos for free, and the rest will be charged. Users will also be given the option to choose between three-month, six-month, and 12-month packages.
5-minute Yoga: The yoga tools from Sadhguru app for Android and iOS will make sure you no longer give the excuse of not having enough time to dedicate to practicing yoga. Designed by Sadhguru, this app is based on the science of Upa-Yoga which is focused on physical and psychological benefits derived from the discipline. All you have to do is take out only five minutes every day to practice from a set of seven five-minute Upa-Yoga practices. The app also offers guidelines and explanatory videos to help you do the asanas right. The app includes guided instruction videos with demos and explanations for each of the seven practices. The videos are available offline too, so once downloaded, the app needs no internet connection.
