These are the sports apps you shouldn't use
The market for applications has found a good gold mine in sport. And it is that technology and well-being seem to go hand in hand more than ever thanks to wearables devices or that are dressed as watches smartwatches and quantifying bracelets, as well as applications that allow monitoring of the physical activity of the user. However, not everything goes. Despite the wide variety of tools available for this purpose, offering all kinds of conveniences to users, not all of them are really functional and practicalIn fact, the big names in this field are doing very badly in a recent scientific study that has decided to evaluate a good number of free sports applications.
Thus, a group of researchers from the University of Florida (USA) have decided to analyze 30 free sports applications for iPhone following the values of elasticity, strength, resistance and aerobic work that includes the American College of Sports Medicine The result has been most disappointing, finding a single application that exceeds the approval, leaving the rest of known tools in a very bad place. Of course, always understanding that the analysis has been carried out regarding some very specific points and that not all sports apps are generic or seek to create complete plans.
In this way, the vast majority of applications do not show information about aerobic work They do earn points as soon as strength training, but completely forgetting flexibility A total of 14 pointsthat no application gets married, losing the opportunity that technology can offer for users who want to enter the world of sports and he alth.
Thus, the only application approved is Sworkit Lite Personal Workout Trainer, achieving 9 of 14 points An application that offers all kinds of exercises and training. All this taking into account different criteria and separating their exercises according to strength, stretching, aerobics and devoting an entire section to Yoga. But what about other classic apps like Runtastic?
Well, according to the researchers' analysis, the rest of the applications do not have the information and exercises that the American College of Sports Medicine recommended. Apps like Nike+ Training Club (3, 11), Strava Running and Cycling (0, 49)or the application to get a 6-pack of Runtastic (0, 33) fail with a rather poor grade. Tools that are committed to specifying their exercises, but not providing all the information and preparation that a user should have when practicing sports.
According to researchers, the real danger is that the user ends up injured And it is that the applications have High quality content very focused on some of the aforementioned points, but without any of them having quality content that touches on all points of the sport according to American College of Sports MedicineIt is also criticized that 23 of the 30 applications analyzed do not explain how to carry out or how to choose a progression plan for the user Issues that can make things very difficult to the novices in sports, despite seeming attractive and simple to use.
