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Exercise is an important part of staying healthy and that is something everyone knows. What puts a lot of people off making sure they stay healthy is that they simply can’t think of a reason to beyond the ‘get healthier’ attitude that leads them towards it; here are 4 apps that give you that reason and the tools to stick with it.

Calorie Counter by MyFitnessPal

Calories is a quantitative measure of what goes in and what goes out of you and presents a tangible goal that is achievable every day. Furthermore, it has even more of an effect on your appearance than exercise does.

There’s a simple equation that works for weight loss for the majority of the population: weight loss happens when caloric intake is less than caloric output. If you burn more than you eat you will lose weight.

The key to managing this is to make sure you are still healthy while running at a deficit, Calorie Counter lets you do that. It also includes exercises with calorie loss targets on a per exercise basis so you can optimize your body even further with just one app.

10 Daily Exercises by PlaySimple

What dissuades some people from getting the exercise that they need to keep everything in working order is that they believe that they need thousands of dollars of equipment or a gym membership in order to get started- they don’t! Anyone can use their own body as resistance when exercising and 10 Daily Exercises gives you exactly those.

Even better, it tracks when you exercised so filling the calendar with green can be a goal to achieve beyond the abstract that most stall out on.

Also consider Daily Workouts FREE if you like the idea but not the execution.

Fitness Buddy : 300+ Exercises by Azumio, Inc.

Maybe you spent a few months using 10 Daily Exercises and think you’ve hit the limit of what it can achieve for you? Fitness Buddy is the next step.

Instead of having just a small selection of exercises, with Fitness Buddy you can target what areas you specifically want to train so you can get better and faster with more efficiency.

Did I mention it includes exercises with equipment and videos on how to safely use each piece?

RunKeeper by FitnessKeeper, Inc.

Perhaps instead of staying in one place for exercises you’d like a more varied view than your basement wall? Running is an excellent way to burn calories while having the constant, embedded goal of always being either faster or having more endurance. RunKeeper is an awesome suite of tools to ensure running is both pleasant and efficient.

The app is a finely tuned system for making sure you are given ev piece of info you could want during and after each run.

If you are looking for a more music central running app, try Runtastic