Nike Runners App: A Review

            In hopes of losing weight I went to my trustee friend YouTube and looked up video’s for losing weight, I usually ran up a mountain and lost the weight however I was not as consistent and lost the determination I once had as a young fledging (college does that, or depression). I came across this running app called Nike’s Running app and I thought to myself: ‘…hmm, this seems sketch.’ In my experience most apps are full of ads trying to sell you something, however desperate times call for desperate measures and I wasn’t letting my ex-friend Wendy get the best of me. In the app you can select a coach, I selected Coach Bennett and man, this app was the best thing I have done for myself. The app connects with you and asks you for your information: age, name, gender, and height and generates and algorithm for later. Now you select a coach and there’s a scheduled plan for you to run and the app tracks how long you run, for how long, your page, and how many calories you burn. You get to rate the workout and you have rest days in between. The app also sync’s with your Spotify account so you can listen to music and podcasts, and the app itself has “talk through” runs where someone talks to you while you run or other runner’s are interviewed by Coach Bennet while you run. This is very useful and when you stop running and take a break, or maybe you just don’t feel like running anymore the workout automatically pauses for you and doesn’t count as your workout time. I have been using the app for a few weeks and recommend it for anyone who wants to run and lose weight because this automatically tracks everything for you so you can focus more on running.