Healthcare & Fitness
CardioTrainer
CardioTrainer for Android and the T-Mobile G1 is a fitness application that lets track your running routes, cycling paths, or any other physical activity that involves moving around in the real world (so, no, that treadmill will not work with this app). This app fulfills one of the more fundamental uses a smartphone can be put to – tracking your health goals. In addition to mapping out the routes automatically with the built-in GPS, it also tracks elevation gains and calories burnt. This app also has a voice feature that reads out the relevant statistics, so you don’t need to pause to keep looking it up while running.
The app comes with an associated website. CardioTrainer automatically uploads your training statistics from your T-Mobile G1 to the server so you can see more advanced breakdowns of your activities as well as compare against your histories. There’s a very neat add-on to the app that costs $2.99 that lets you race against yourself to motivate you to improve your times and other metrics. The app itself is free and available on the Android Market now. If sharing your goals helps with your motivation, you can use the facebook app associated with CardioTrainer to share select aspects of your training with your network.
