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With its high-resolution manifestation and access to thousands of games, cinema and TV shows, the third-generation iPad offers lots of excuses to laze on the couch.

For the more health-conscious amid the 3 million users who picked up a new iPad final weekend, however, there are many giveaway and paid apps that can soak up Apple?s ultimate inscription in to a aptness slight or diet regimen.

Currently, there are more than 3,700 iPad entries in the App Store?s Health Fitness section. Want to know what to eat or request a law examination slight for achieving beach-worthy abs? Yeah, there?s an app for that.

[Note: Although iPhone/iPod Touch apps will work on the iPad -- despite in an stretched form -- this list is paltry to local iPad apps that take value of the device's increased shade actual estate.]

GENERAL FITNESS

All-In Fitness HD

* Developer: Arawella Corp.

* Price: $1.99.

* Who needs it: The with access to a gym or a home exercise appurtenance who wish to remove weight and tinge or erect muscle.

* Why it?s worth it: A law examination generator of electric power provides programs tailored to users? needs. Each exercise includes narrated videos to denote correct technique and an painting of that muscle groups are being worked. The database includes hundreds of activities, from yoga positions to free-weight exercises.

* Alternate apps: ?Navy SEAL Fitness? ($1.99).

CALORIE TRACKER

?Calorie Counter*?

* Developer: About Inc.

* Price: Free.

* Who needs it: The meddlesome in an app for gripping follow of eating day to day and analyzing nutritive intake.

* Why it?s worth it: ?Calorie Count? is free, elementary to use and has a searchable database with entries for renouned grill bondage and brands. The app moreover includes exercise and weight logs and an analyzer for violation down every day nutritive money coming in and showing areas that could use improvement.

* Alternate apps: ?Calorie Counter by FatSecret? (free).

NUTRITION/FITNESS ANALYSIS

?Diet Fitness Fracker by SparkPeople?

* Developer: SparkPeople.

* Price: Free.

* Who needs it: Any statistically disposed person who is encouraged by visible metrics and wants to remove weight.

* Why it?s worth it: Like many aptness apps, ?Diet Fitness? offers logs for food, exercise and weight and bases every day goals on users? aim weight loss. What sets it detached is its conversion of that information in to multicolored charts and graphs that visually etch dietary choices and exercise habits.

* Alternate apps: ?Food Scanner: Good Food or Bad Food?? ($2.99).

YOGA

?All-in Yoga HD?

* Developer: Arawella Corp.

* Price: $1.99.

* Who needs it: Anyone with an fascination in putting in service yoga, from novices to gurus, who wants the determination of a trainer without the cost of a class.

* Why it?s worth it: After inputting age, weight, turn of skill and the objective of your event (flexibility, de-stressing, etc.), the app creates a customized, narrated examination from a database of more than 300 positions. The app will moreover sync information online to keep follow of your examination calendar, and videos are existing to denote correct form.

* Alternate apps: ?Daily Yoga? ($2.99).

RUNNING

?Couch to Half?

* Developer: Uncaged Confidence.

* Price: $1.99.

* Who needs it: Beginning runners with an eye on completing the 13.1 miles of a half-marathon who need help surroundings a report and may be a bit of additional motivation.

* Why it?s worth it: Certified personal trainer Trish Blackwell guides users by a 12-week program. Each week has practice tips, a examination report and videos for determination and cranky training. Blackwell moreover provides conform to support and tips for beginners.

* Alternate apps: ?WalkJogRun Running? ($4.99).

BODY BUILDING

?iMuscle ? (Nova series)?

* Developer: 3D4Medical.com.

* Price: $4.99.

* Who needs it: The without access to a personal trainer who wish to know how to intensify or tinge muscles.

* Why it?s worth it: Using an interactive, minute 3-D digest of the body, ?iMuscle? allows users to wizz in on definite areas, pick out any muscle and obtain a list of work-out that will rise it. There are more than 400 exercise animations with tips for correct execution. Users can fibre these together to emanate customized workouts.

* Alternate app: ?Get Ripped? ($4.99).

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