4 Ways Your
Smartphone
Can Power
Your Fitness
Remember when you found
out you could download an
app that would tell you “ex-
actly” how many calories were
in your food? Yeah, that was
in 2008—and it’s not cool any-
more. Newer fitness apps are
so advanced it may not be long
before they chew your food for
you. Fooducate ($5, fooducate.
com) revolutionizes grocery
shopping by placing the power
of a nutritionist in the palm of
your hand. Simply snap a picture of the UPC (bar code) on
the food you want to buy, and the app will provide you with
every bit of information on it you could ever want. Does
this food contain gluten? Is it vegan friendly? Will it provide
enough protein to be suitable for my diet? Fooducate does
all the work for you. “The beauty is that the app shares the
ingredients within the product,” says Chris Mohr, Ph.D., R.D.,
owner of mohrresults.com, a nutrition consulting company.
“Awareness about foods is certainly helpful, though too much
can confuse a consumer. This app does a good job balancing
both.” And if you want to find, say, the best brand of yogurt
for your nutritional preferences, you can use the app to
compare products and then build the ultimate shopping list
for your next trip to the grocery store.
7 %
That seems
to be the
magic
number of
body fat
percentage
when guys
become
"shredded".
To look that
good, you need
to get below
10 %
which is the
point most guys
can see some
definition——and
a six-pack.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
With marijuana legalization set to hit Canada this year, it's only a matter of
time before pot-friendly gyms such as Power Plant begin to pop up across
the country. The idea may seem like a gimmick, but then again, the fitness
industry was built on gimmicks. The weed-as-fitness-aid revolution took a
big step forward when Power Plant Fitness – "the world's first cannabis gym"
– opened in California earlier this year. Power Plant allows its members to
"consume cannabis at the gym before or after working out." The gym's web-
site also claims that its trainers "have a full knowledge base of both physiolo-
gy and training as well as focused education in all aspects of how to integrate
cannabis into one's daily routine of wellness."If a few tokes is what it takes
to get people off their butts and into the gym, then so be it. Just remember,
nothing takes the place of hard training and healthy eating.
18 MUSCLE MEMORY
| APRIL/MAY 2018