Android Apps

Instant heart rate is kind of cool. It measures your HR through your finger using the camera

There's a neat app called Calorie Calc that estimates how much your burned for certain exercises based on your weight and time doing the exercise.  

I was just going to mention that. It works pretty well too. I often track my calories and exercise calorie burn on MyFittness. It is a great app.

Check out MyTracks, the data is uploadable directly to google maps.  I was researching the best free apps earlier this year.  MyTracks has all the data I was looking for, I tried it and have been very satisfied.

I use my droid on the bike (bento box) and then on the run (clip to shorts or put in waist-pack)

I use Cardiotrainer. It seems to work very well, GPS is pretty acrurate, and can be pretty custumizable among settings. I use it for my rides and runs.

endomondo
runkeeper
cardiotrainer
runtastic
Runstar

if you use appbrain as your market it has much better sorting and searching of apps. 

Hey! I just read about www.glympse.com where you can get an app that lets someone 'track' your whereabouts while running, driving, etc... I don't have an android phone but now I WANT one!!!

i like the cardio trainer works great with the gps and then i turn on the pandora radio

Swim Planner
Runkeeper 
Running Calc 

you're going to love it. There's a lot of apps for excercise use once you start searching. I've tried quite a few and my favorite so far is the different Imap apps.
mapmyrun
mapmyride
mapmyfitness
Loads everything to their website and it's a pretty good site for info, mapping and tracking.
We need to get BT to come out with something.

I just tend to use google maps while riding.

I create routes in google earth, then view them in Google Maps so have a route on the maps and it shows where I am with an arrow.  It's nice when you go on long rides that have lots of turns.

Has anyone come across after-market heart-rate apps? There's one that requires a $100 heart rate monitor (Zephr HxM). Ouchie!

Edited by Porfirio 2010-11-18 8:37 AM

I have an android phone, but none of my apps are training related. ;-)

I recently found, and LOVE Cardiotrainer!  It will give you splits (unlike imapmyrun) and voice feedback if you want it.  Best I've found to date

I can imagine they would be expensive, you would need to have a separate piece of hardware to receive the HR signal, lol or an expensive bluetooth HR strap.

The Zephr HxM is the bluetooth HR strap. Can't find it cheaper than $100 though. I may just bite this bullet & treat myself to it for X-Mas. It's like, why not? I have my phone w/me during my runs anyway. 

As a conductor one of the first things I downloaded on my android phone was a metronome for double checking my tempos while working with my choir, strings, etc. 

When I started training over the summer for my first tri (completed 2 weeks ago...thank you, thank you) I kept reading about cadences for biking and running and so I decided to use my metronome app as a click-track for running.  Just set the beats per minute to whatever you want (85, 88, 92, etc) and go!

NOTE:  When doing this, be sure to turn off the "first beat emphasis" or else it can end up feeling odd with the run.

btw: finished my sprint very slowly 1:26.  9 minute swim, 47 on the bike, and 29 on the run.  At least no one passed me on a foldable mountain bike (what I was riding). 

I am currently using Endomondo but can't seem to figure out the GPX upload to my Training Log. I have tried editing the file to remove all the application headers but still no success. Anyone else had this problem and come up with a solution?

Just downloaded Runkeeper Pro which is normally a $10 paid app but they are offering it free through January! Looks like a pretty comprehensive app and it originally came out on the iPhone so it has been well tested and put together nicely.

Thanks for the runkeeper pro tip, I started my training over a year ago using Mytracks.  I thought it was great until i discovered CardioTrainer.  I love the fact that it integrates a music player and voice outputs of current speed and minutes per mile.

I will have to go out for a run today to see how runkeeper stacks up, just playing around with it in the house it looks to be a very nice app.

Runkeeper is supporting a Polar Bluetooth HRM (close to $100).  The integration is awesome though.  Full logging of heart rate with distance, pace and elevation data.

Oh - the Runkeeper Pro app is free for this month.  Download it!  

Edited by grauch 2011-01-12 3:19 PM

I've been using Endomondo. I like it. RunKeeper isn't bad and I did pick up the free pro version to check it out.

Ethan

Theres a workout app out there called jefit - it's a decent app if your looking for new exercises while at the gym.  It also has animations that can be downloaded.

I've used Endomondo - works well enough.  The program can talk to you and tell you when you hit 1 mile, 2 mile, etc.  I found that if playing music the voice notifications don't work as well as they should.  Also, one neat feature is that someone else can track your progress from the inetrnet while you are running.  Nice if a loved one needs to find you or if you don't show up at home when you should. 

I've donwnloaded he free version of runkeeper and will try that once the snow and ice melts from my sidealks in Michigan.