Do you need some motivation to help you achieve your New Years resolution

In todays techonological world it seems that nearly everybody has a smartphone of some sorts. We have some great apps that we have found to help you achieve your New Year resolutions.

1. Streaks Motivational Calendar

For those of us who need to set goals, whether we find it satisfying or necessary, the Streaks – Motivational Calendar app is a great tool for keeping track of progress. From keeping track of how many days you’ve gone without smoking to how many times you’ve practiced violin this week, this app will help organize your progress towards your goal. It counts how many days you’ve made an effort to reach your goal and tallies them as a streak. If you miss a day, you end your streak. By keeping tabs of your longest streaks, this calendar app motivates you to compete against yourself to see how long you can continue a streak.

The calendar is customizable, giving you the ability to create and name a clendar for each goal and to choose which days of the week you allow yourself to skip. It also comes with four backgrounds to make your calendars stand out. You are responsible for marking down which days you’ve attempted to reach your goal so if you lie, the only person being cheated is you (the calendar prevents you from marking future days to help you with this as well). Overall, it’s a great app for personal organization; if you don’t want to take my word for it, it’s rated 4+ in the app store.

2. Runkeeper

RunKeeper uses the GPS technology found in the iPhone to track your fitness activity, giving you comparable results to an expensive GPS watch. Now, you can also enter your activities manually, including your treadmill runs too!

3. Daily Ab Workout

Daily Ab Workout is a great 5 to 10 minute daily ab routine for men and women that steps you through ten of the best ab-sculpting exercises you can do in the comfort of your own home. These proven exercises, demonstrated by a certified personal trainer, target all major abdominal muscles. Spending just minutes a day can strengthen your core

4. IFitness

If you're more interested in tracking weight lifting and stationary fitness routines than running and cardio activity, iFitness has you covered. iFitness has a catalog of over 300 exercises ranging from those requiring cable machines and free weights to exercises you can do without any equipment. You can easily mix together exercises to create custom routines. If you need help setting up a weight-lifting regimen, iFitness includes 20 routines designed by fitness experts. Should you ever need a refresher on proper form, each exercise cataloged in iFitness has clear pictures and videos to show you how to do the exercise safely and effectively. When you're done working out, you can save the routine and record your progress; all progress is saved locally and on the iFitness servers to keep your workout records accessible.

5. Lose It

Use this app to create a personalized plan for your weight loss goals. Then log your food intake and exercise to compare your calories in vs. calories out. The food log also provides detailed nutritional information. At any point, you can enter your current weight to see if you have made progress. The Well Community staff members who have used this app were surprised to learn how many calories they were consuming daily.