Application Review: Nike Training Club

The top-rated fitness application for health is Nike Training Club. This app has a rating 4. 8 out of 5 stars from 14. 2k reviews on the apple store. More than ten million people have downloaded the app. This app is so popular because Nike is a well-known brand, therefore more people are prone to run into this app. As well, more people will trust this app over an app that comes from an unknown brand.

This app is free in the app store giving more incentive to try the app over an app where you need to pay a membership fee. This app will create a customized program for you, that will adapt to your needs as you go along. You can pick from three different levels; beginner, intermediate, or advanced. It allows you to pick a plan based on whether your fitness goals are; endurance, strength, mobility, or yoga which hits all the aspects of fitness. This app is excellent for new commers to fitness because each workout comes with video demonstrations of the exercises, so if you are unsure of how to preform an exercise you have the ability to learn them without leaving the app. The app allows you to workout at home or in the gym and customize what equipment you have available. No internet connection is required, allowing you to workout wherever and whenever to best fit your schedule.

The number one review of this app is how user friendly it is, making it the optimal tool for someone who does not know a lot about technology. However, there are some cons to this app, like the fact that there is no nutrition section. Nutrition is a big part of becoming healthy as you can not out workout a bad diet. This app can also take a long time to load each workout, and then once workouts are downloaded they can start to take up a lot of room on the cell phone. Also, you must download the workout before you can preview the workout and watch the videos.

A negative review on the app is that the app tends to crash. While using this app you must keep yourself accountable to use it and follow the workouts. If you decide to do an eight-week workout plan, you have to complete the workouts on the days it says you cannot change it to another day. Smartphone apps show a great deal of promise for measuring and encouraging physical activity. When these apps are combined with behavioral change techniques, they show greater benefits. Behaviour change strategies that are helpful are goal setting, self-monitoring, rewards, social support, and coaching all of which the Nike Training Club app have. However, a key behaviour change strategy which the app does not address is identifying barriers. These barriers may include where (maybe you do not have access to a gym), when, how, or finding time to workout. In a study it was found that six out of ten smartphone users have downloaded a fitness application. This study put people into two groups those assigned to use a fitness tracker and the other group did not. Those who used the fitness tracker for two weeks reported walking more then those who did not. They also had more favourable attitudes post intervention. In another study it was found that duration and adherence to the apps did not make as much of a difference as goal setting did. Fitness apps did however influence the diversification of the physical activity. Fitness app users with a goal to do more physical activity, to lose weight, do more physical activity, or to track physical activity had a higher probability of reporting that apps were effective in assisting them. A success story from a female who started out by using the app 3 days a week ended up on average using it 6 times a week. After seven weeks of the program she noticed she had lost a considerable amount of body fat and increased her strength, overall she dropped four pounds. Another lady that did a mix of using the Nike Training Club app and Zumba class was able to lose 34 pounds in three months.

This app allows you to track your progress. There are benchmark workouts where you can compare previous results to, to see how far you have come. Every time you finish a workout it askes you to rate how hard you are working, this way if you do the same workout at a later date you can view how much easier it is. Another big things this app can do is it can connect to apple watches. Connecting to an apple watch would give you more information about your workouts that you would not get otherwise. You can see your heart rate data, calories burned and much more. With high blood pressure and a pervious myocardial infarction, he will want to make sure he is not trying to workout to aggressively for what his heart can handle. Therefore, knowing what his heart rate is can be helpful to determine that he is working out at an appropriate intensity. Since all this data would be stored on his cell phone, this allows his doctor to look over the data and see how he is progressing. Moreover, apple watches are able to help detect if there are heart arrhythmias, this would be helpful considering he has a past of myocardial infarction.

Nike Training Club has recently initiated a reward system, this helps to incentives people to keep working out and using the app especially if the rewards are things they are interested in. These rewards will be based on members' personal interests and goals, the premise of the rewards is the more active you are the more you get rewarded. The rewards are not all Nike based either, Nike has teamed up with partners to add variety to the rewards. From Nikes partnerships you can earn free apple music, guided mediation through headspace, and gain access to free ClassPass class credits. Nike will give you personalized promotions such as; product discounts for your whole birthday month, a free gift when you make a purchase, and VIP experiences such as tickets to games. Also, in February members will have to an exclusive shop which will be stocked with five new shoes. The app also gives you badges based on how many workouts you’ve done which you can share over the app.

I have in the pasted used this app before the rewards came out. I used it for roughly a year, along with the Nike running app. The workouts were perfect for my home gym, I was able to enter the equipment I have in my house. I liked the fact I did not have to plan my own workouts and that I could just pick from a list what I wanted to do. I also liked the fact that there are professional athletes that came up with workouts for the app and they did the voices for them. With the new rewards system they started I am inclined to start using it again, as I enjoy wearing Nike products when working out. I have recommended the app to my mum to use when she was trying to build strength but wasn’t sure what exercises to do.