As the new year approaches, it’s time to think about your goals for 2020! If you’re like us, you’ve got your mind on fitness. We’re not saying we need to get in shape, because we already are—but we like to keep ourselves in tip-top shape. And this year, we’re going to do that with a little help from our friends.
We all know that one of the best ways to get motivated is with a challenge, so we’ve compiled this list of apps that make it easy to get your friends together and start working on your goals. You’ll look better than ever, and you’ll have a blast doing it. Check them out!
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Best Apps For Fitness Challenges With Friends
- Fitfully (Android, iOS): Live Video Chat Workouts With Friends
The pandemic showed us that you can do almost anything remotely with the right technology, so why should workouts be different? Fitfully is one of the simplest apps to remotely exercise with friends over a live video chat on your phone.
The app’s ease of use is its best part. Just invite a friend, set your exercise routine, and follow the on-screen prompts to begin. The screen shows all participants simultaneously in a split-screen view.
You can choose from Fitfully’s built-in challenges to throw down a gauntlet to your friends or create a workout routine from the library. Do note that Fitfully’s workout options aren’t too varied and mostly involve no-equipment bodyweight exercises. You also can’t set custom exercises or variations. That said, the existing options are good enough to get in a fun and challenging video workout with your friends.
Download: Fitfully for Android | iOS (Free)
- StepBet (Android, iOS): Fairer Step Counting Game for All Fitness Levels
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StepBet makes it more fair to count steps as a fitness goal by giving different targets for people in the same group based on historical data
You can join or create StepBet groups with a minimum bet of $10 and a maximum of $60
StepBet encourages participants to share their progress and post their achievements in the group
One of the most popular forms of working out as a competitive group is to count steps. Of course, hundreds of apps offer that already. But inherently, the competition is unequal because of every person’s individual fitness level. StepBet tries to address this imbalance for fairer step-counting competition.
StepBet connects with any activity tracker you use and imports your data. Then, based on your historical step data, it will calculate two personalized goals for you: an Active Goal (somewhat challenging) and a Power Goal (more challenging). Every participant’s steps will be different, but the field is now level. Each weekly competition asks you to hit a certain number of active days and power days.
Then it’s a typical step challenge, with a bet element (as putting something on the line has shown to motivate people). Each game or group has a minimum $10 bet and a maximum of $60, with the pot being shared by all who achieve the target. Groups allow you to talk with others and share your milestones, giving the community the ability to push each other forward.
Download: StepBet for Android | iOS (Free)
- GroupBeast (Web, Android): Form a Custom Fitness Group With Friends
GroupBeast makes it easy to create a custom fitness group with friends and share workout plans
GroupBeast is best for a group of friends where someone is setting the workout of the day, and others are following it. You can have one experienced trainer setting it up every day or mix it up between all of you.
Once you and your friends sign up, follow each other or create a custom group. Your feed looks a lot like an Instagram feed, with posts, reposts, comments, and other social features. Share your workouts on your feed so your friends can receive them.
Creating a workout is quite easy. You can choose from preset exercises in GroupBeast or even create a custom exercise. Each exercise also shows which muscle group it targets, which updates a muscle map to keep track of which areas of the body you haven’t exercised or are over-exercising.
GroupBeast has an Android app, and the mobile website works smoothly to use on any iPhone browser. If you’re creating exercises, it’s easier to use the desktop app to add custom videos and other helpful information for your group.
Download: GroupBeast for Android (Free)
- Squaddy (Android, iOS): Dedicated Chat App and Daily Workout for Training Groups
Instead of having workout teams on WhatsApp groups and chat apps, Squaddy provides a dedicated space for groups of two to 1000 participants. Create an account, start a group (for friends, colleagues, teams, or more), and invite participants. It’s all free.
Each Squaddy group has three main areas. The main Chat serves as a place to talk to each other, finally stopping those flood of texts in your inbox. The NoticeBoard tab is like a news feed, where people can share important posts that others can refer to later, add progress ideas, or blogs.
The Training tab is where the group administrator (or anyone) adds a new workout. When you finish training, you mark it as complete, and the session will show who in your group has marked it complete for the day. Squaddy also maintains your own Training diary, where you can see the sessions you’ve completed and your Movement History.
Download: Squaddy for Android | iOS (Free)
- Love HIIT (Web, Android, iOS): Timer-Based Workouts for Non-Techie Groups
Love HIIT is a simple workout creator for interval training or mixed exercises that you can share with anyone for a timed, audio-guided workout
Sometimes, tech makes things over-complicated. If you already have a workout group on WhatsApp or some other chat app, then all you really need is a way to share the workout of the day. That’s what Love HIIT does.
Made for interval training exercises, Love HIIT asks you to only add exercises in a row. Add a timer for each, and do the maximum in that amount of time. Note how much time you want to rest between exercises, and how many total rounds of the circuit you want to do.
When you start the workout, Love HIIT behaves like the best countdown timer apps for interval training. It’ll say aloud the exercise name or the rest period and start a timer, and also say out the last three seconds. It’s a simple interface that anyone can use, making it perfect for a workout group that’s not too tech-savvy.
Once you set up a workout and share it, anyone with the link can use it through a web browser (desktop or mobile) and apps. You can also save the workout to your computer, but it seems to happen only with cache. So you’ll lose it if you clear the cache. It’s probably best to save workouts on the mobile apps.
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8fit
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8fit
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Android, iOS
Free; Pro plan $79.99 per year, $59.99 for six months, or $24.99 per month
8fit brings together on-demand workouts and meal planning and is excellent for people who like a lot of guidance and instruction. The app creates a personalized program for your diet and exercise based on whatever goal you set. Once you tell 8fit what you want to achieve, you work out to videos in the app, log what you eat, and create meal plans using recipes and shopping lists. The free version gives you access to only some workouts, which require you to look at and tap the screen often. You can also track your weight and activities with the free app. The Pro version unlocks the personalized meals, shopping lists, calorie logging, and additional workouts. The monthly rate is high—don’t sign up for that plan—but six-month and annual plans are priced competitively. It’s an all-in-one fitness plan that you can customize to your tastes.
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Aaptiv
$14.99 Per Month at Aaptiv
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Android, iOS, Web
$14.99 per month or $99.99 per year
Aaptiv specializes in audio-based workouts led by trainers, meaning you don’t have to keep your eyes or fingers on a screen to exercise. A trainer tells you what to do, with music in the background. The app suggests workouts that will suit you based on information you provide, such as what type of exercise you like (stretching, strength training, yoga, indoor cycling, outdoor running, stair climber, and others) and what styles of music you prefer. As of this writing, there’s a seven-day free trial via the web app, though it requires a credit card to access.
Centr, by Chris Hemsworth
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Centr, by Chris Hemsworth
$29.99 Per Month at Centr
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Android, iOS, Web
$29.99 per month, $59.99 per quarter, $119.99 per year
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, known for playing the swole hammer-wielding god Thor, brings you this all-in-one fitness app for planning your training, doing workouts, and eating healthy. You can use it to build muscle, lose weight, or get fit generally speaking. You tell the app which of these goals you’re interested in during the signup process. Some workouts are coached, meaning you play a complete video of a trainer who does the workout with you. Others are self-guided, meaning you get a timer and a sample video of each exercise instead. You can get a free seven-day trial of this app, though a credit card is required to access it. The prices are all over the place. The list prices change constantly and the annual subscription is always on sale. Typically, the monthly plan is too expensive, so don’t sign up for it. The quarterly and annual rates are usually very fair.
Charity Miles
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Charity Miles
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Android, iOS
Free
Charity Miles donates money to the organization of your choice when you use the app to log miles running, walking, or bicycling. Corporate sponsors agree to donate a few cents for every mile you complete. In exchange, you see their branding and information about them in the app. (Read more on how Charity Miles works.) You can also use the app to run pledge drives. An included calculator shows you how much money you can raise if you meet different goals, such as getting 50 people to sponsor you at $0.30 per mile. Charity Miles supports a variety of nonprofit organizations, such as ASPCA, Habitat for Humanity, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Unicef, Save the Children, and the Wounded Warrior Project. Knowing that your activity supports charitable causes might just motivate you to move every day.
Find What Feels Good (FWFG)
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Find What Feels Good
$9.99 Per Month at Find What Feels Good
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Android, iOS, Web
$12.99 per month; $129.99 per year (some content free on related website)
If you’ve ever searched for a yoga video on YouTube, chances are you’ve run into Yoga with Adriene. This same Adriene (Mishler) sells a subscription to all her content, ad-free, under the brand Find What Feels Good, or FWFG. It’s available on iOS, Android, and the web. The FWFG library has more than 150 exclusive videos, plus premium courses, member-only vlogs from Adriene, and all the videos from Yoga with Adriene (Mischler’s other website) ad-free. Subscribers get access to new content as it’s added, too. The subscription cost went up slightly in 2021, and FWFG now runs $12.99 per month or $129.99 per year with a seven-day free trial that requires banking details to get.
Fitbit
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Fitbit
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Android, iOS, Web, Windows
$9.99 per month or $79.99 per year for workout and health content
Anyone, regardless of whether they own a Fitbit tracker, can download the free Fitbit app and pay for a Premium subscription to get video workouts, video recipes, and mindfulness sessions. This workout and health content was formerly in a separate app called Fitstar and then later Fitbit Coach, but it’s now just part of the standard Fitbit app. Workout videos are designed so that you can follow along and do them nearly anywhere. There are all kinds of options, from stretching routines to stair workouts. The videos use a voice over of a coach who tells you exactly what to do, reminds you to breathe, and so forth. Each workout video shows the moves that you’re supposed to do, how many reps you’ve done, a timer, and other relevant info based on that particular workout. If you do have a Fitbit tracker, the Premium subscription adds more features, such as a Health Metrics dashboard, sleep score details, and additional personalized data.
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