Apps put fitness fans through short, sharp workouts

[Wireless News]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommend that adults do at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity weekly. Sworkit, a new fitness app for iPhone and Android devices, takes users through workouts as short as five minutes that can be done anywhere. "We realized that a lot of people don’t have a lot of time, so we created an app for people to squeeze in bite-sized increments of exercise throughout their day where they don’t need to be at a gym or use equipment,”-said Benjamin Young, CEO of Washington, D.C.-based company Nexercise, creator of the app. The routine is made up of 30-second exercises that are demonstrated with videos, or users can create their own workouts with the app.

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