The iPhone has thousands of health and fitness apps geared towards helping get you in the best shape of your life. How do you find the best app in the sea of paid and free offerings? In my opinion, here are the 5 best iPhone apps to feed your healthy obsessions.
What are your favorite free apps?
I forgot to mention that I also LOVE Runner’s World Smart Coach app. It helps me train for my races! Love it.
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Have you heard of Fab Fit Fun? It is a women’s lifestyle newsletter that was created by Giuliana Rancic. They send out newsletters just about every day, and yesterday I was featured as one of their favorite YouTube trainers!
I was so excited to be included along with my buddies Cassey and Bex.
Recipe: Crock Pot Chicken Cacciatore
This week, I made a new I put together a keeper of a recipe. Roomie already requested it again. I showed you in a YouTube video how I loved making Crock Pot Salsa Chicken and a few readers suggested making it with pasta sauce. I took them up on their suggestion and made a batch using Trader Joe’s Organic Mushroom Pasta Sauce. I only added 1/2 the jar.
After the chicken was done cooking, I sautéed onions in a frying pan on low for 10 minutes until they were limp. Then I added frozen, sliced tri-color bell peppers. Once those were cooked all the way through, I added in a tablespoon of capers, a cup of cooked chicken and extra pasta sauce. I served my chicken on a bed of Shirataki Noodles and roomie’s on a plate of pasta.
It was sweet, salty and delicious! I already made another batch and bought an eggplant this weekend so I can serve it on eggplant noodles later this week. What do I have against pasta? When following the Tone It Up diet plan, there are no carbs after 3 pm! Of course when I go to an Italian restaurant I don’t follow the rules but at home, I do try.
It’s kind of like Chicken Cacciatore and I highly recommend trying it if you love your crock pot like I do. I suppose you could add the veggies to the crock pot 1/2 way through the cooking but I like how the onions sort of caramelized in the pan.
Exclusive Giveaway For TIU Members!!!! I get asked what Heart Rate Monitor I wear at least once a day. I wear the FT60 which retails for $125. I wear a chest strap and am able to track my heart rate during my workouts. Throughout the workout, I’m able to see how many calories I’ve burned. This feature is particularly intriguing to many of you.
Polar noticed and asked if I wanted to give one away. I’m using my HRM to track my fitness while getting in shape for my spring break vacation in conjunction with the Tone It Up diet plan so I decided to make this giveaway for TIU members. They are a supportive community for my YouTube channel and I wanted to show them how much I appreciate their love and support. If you are already a member, leave a comment below to enter. If you are not a member but order the Tone It Up diet plan through my site by Monday February 6th at 8 pm EST, you will be entered to win. Your comment can be about anything but if you are looking for prompt, let me know what your favorite part of the TIU plan is, maybe a the diet plan, workouts of community.
This giveaway is exclusively for TIU members.
I apologize in advance to my readers who are not members. I have some other fun and exciting things to give out later in the week that will be open to everyone.
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One day cold afternoon last winter, I was running my routine 3.8 mile loop and just stopped. I was bored. I was tired. I was also kinda sad. I had a personal issue going on and really was not in the mood to power through a workout. I glanced down at my iPhone and began browsing iTunes. I wasn’t sure if I was looking for a song to cry with, a song to cheer me up or a song to get me angry and fired up. Running is my therapy but this day I needed a therapist to sing to me.
I opted to download the new Adele album. Quickly I thought to myself, “How crazy is it that with a touch of my finger I can download an entire new album on a bridge in the middle of my run?”
As soon I started hearing the bellowing voice of Adele, the oomph in my stride returned. I finished my cathartic run with a proud sense of achievement. Regardless of how I was feeling before I started, I accomplished what I set out to do and had regained control over my thoughts. Yes, the album is depressing but that is how I felt. Her angry words energized my legs and assured me, this feeling too shall pass.
Music is my savior when it comes to working out. I cannot run without it. Studies have shown that it helps people workout harder and longer. The beats per minute help keep your speed up your pace as well. To stay motivated, I am constantly updating my playlist. I use Pandora and I Heart Radio often, but when you are in a mood like I was last winter, you need control over what you hear.
If I lack motivation to go to the gym, I put on my headphones and start listening to my latest workout playlist. In no time, I’m ready to go move around. Here is my most recent Top 10 playlist:
I like to mix up old favorites with new songs, that way if the radio overplays these songs I won’t hate the entire thing but just half 
Jetsetter has been on my list for over 5 years and it doesn’t get old. It’s also my power song on Nike+. What are some of your favorite not currently popular songs?
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