If you can’t motivate yourself to exercise, try this app

This is the Future app for iOS. | Image: Future

If you're anything like me, making yourself work out is hard. You set an alarm but then can't convince yourself to get out of bed. You're done with work and have your clothes and sneakers packed, but tasks that seem more pressing just keep coming up, and oh look, they just released another episode of Billions, and do you really feel like leaving the house?

Many people's answer to this conundrum is a personal trainer - someone you meet with once a week or so who walks you through various customized exercises and shouts encouragement. If you don't show up to your workout, you probably still get billed for the session and - more importantly - your trainer will be upset with you, and that's no fun. But personal trainers can cost well over...

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