Promising peak fitness and strength through simple, low-tech exercises, CrossFit is as old-fashioned as the Paleo diet it recommends. But its focus on stat-heavy metrics like timed workouts, personal records and seemingly endless workouts of the day, make it a program that inspires apps to keep you on track even if you have to do your workout from a hotel room. Just try not to get your phone sweaty.
1Beyond the Whiteboard
An online log program as well as an iPhone app, Beyond the Whiteboard offers stats and logs to optimize every facet of your workouts and overall health. The online program lets you plan your workouts (and choose from their log of 50,000 workouts of the day), analyzes your results against the community to pinpoint your weak areas and also logs your meals and weight. The iPhone app holds all your workouts, your to-do list and lets you log your results. $3 per month at beyondthewhiteboard.com; iPhone app is free for registered users.
2Travel WODs
For crossfitters, a box (don't call it a gym!) is like a second home, but that doesn't mean you need a box to complete a full CrossFit workout. Travel WODs features over 120 workouts of the day, all of which can be completed without gym equipment. Users can filter the workouts listed for those that don't include running and can be completed in a small space, like a hotel room. There's also a whiteboard for tracking your stats and a built-in timer and tabata timer to save and graph your workout times. $1.99 at iTunes App Store[1] , Google Play.
3Workout Hero
In addition to 700 daily workouts, a quartet of timers used in the official CrossFit videos, and a user-friendly calendar system for logging workouts, this app also includes over 100,000 recipes for the Paleo diet (which goes hand-in-hand with CrossFit) and allows users to connect with friends and see each other's workouts, personal records and max weights. Let the smack talking begin. $2.99, at iTunes App Store.
4WODBOX
By CrossFit athletes, Wodbox is designed to ensure users never have to execute a workout twice - unless they want to. Choose a workout based on the equipment you have via Genius mode, stay up to date on daily WODs published by premier CrossFit affiliates or select a random workout from The Hopper, which stores benchmark workouts from the past seven years of the Reebok CrossFit Games as well as the Heroes, the Ladies and fan tribute WODs. There are timers, a journal and baselines to track your stats. Free ($3.99 for Pro) at iTunes App Store, Google Play.
5XFit PR
In all honesty, it's the simple-yet-beautiful design of XFit PR that separates it from similar apps. Over a chalkboardlike backdrop, users can log their workouts, personal records (they appear as a graph over time so users can visualize their progress) and get full explanations of named workouts like Fran and Murph. There are also timers, weight and distance converters and video demos of each exercise. Nothing that can't be found elsewhere, but in an attractive, easy-to-navigate package. $3.99 at iTunes App Store, Google Play.
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