Logging Software!

[Lucky13MN]

Anyone use Personal Training Workstation from www.workoutware.com?

They have versions for Windows, Macintosh and Palm OS which is really slick because I have to use all three (Mac and Palm OS at home, Windows at work).

Just curious if anyone is using it, I'm thinking about spending the $30.

If not, check it out... worth the free 30 trial anyway.

[Lift2Live]

I've not used that one but I have used one in the past and loved it. Go to http://www.dakotafit.com

I was using the older version but this particular program is the absolute best i've ever seen.

[Lucky13MN]

Yeah, looks nice... I'm looking at something that will work with both Mac, PC and Palm however and the one I posted about is the only one I could find and it seems pretty nice. Just wondering if anyone is using it, but I guess not

[Pelon]

I use Crosstrainer (http://www.crosstrainer.ca/). It's not great, but it's better than some of the others I tried. It works with a Palm, but I don't think it has Mac support.

[Firehawk]

The cheaper way is to make your own spreadsheet in Microsoft EXCEL! You coudl probably make something that can be comparable to these programs. That's based on the assumption that it does graphing for you, keeps dates/calories in, fat burned, calculations and such.

If anyone wants an excel spreadsheet I have one I made up for myself and I'd be more than happy to pass it out.

[lara34]

I am using DietPower 4.0. (www.dietpower.com). It is great for awareness of what you eat, and gives you a daily grade of your nutritional fitness, plus also keeps track of your water intake. You can save your favorite workouts and foods to later 'click and drag'. The coolest feature is the calorie bank, so you can see if your "account" is positive or negative, and shows you the balance of protein/carbs/fats. Gives you 15 day trial and is well worth the purchase price. I have used it for about 1 year, and I dig it.

[Lucky13MN]

Ok, so nobody is using "Personal Training Workstation"... guess I'll be the first.

[Oneaday]

Originally Posted by Lucky13MN

Anyone use Personal Training Workstation from www.workoutware.com?

They have versions for Windows, Macintosh and Palm OS which is really slick because I have to use all three (Mac and Palm OS at home, Windows at work).

Just curious if anyone is using it, I'm thinking about spending the $30.

If not, check it out... worth the free 30 trial anyway.

Hey Lucky, thanks for the link. That seems really interesting. Currently I use Weight by Date .


This one is more about the diet. It does have a workout window, but really the only tracking it does for workouts is what you enter on your personal notes/journal. It graphs and tracks everything for diet, but workouts seem to be an after thought. It does work with a PDA.

For me it is fine. I am just returning to fitness, but when I was full blown into it, the only info I really wrote down about my workouts were :

Run: XXXtime XXX miles
Swim: XXX meters at @xx minutes per 500meters

Lifting, at first I wrote down everything, eventually I just did the best I could do on a day to day basis.

Although I doubt I would ever care to track and print out what weights I will lift, how many reps, how many sets and walk around a gym with that print out or PDA, going strictly by it, it would be cool to see my run and swim time displayed over a graph covering years.


I wish they would make a portable workout tracker that does everything like the one you just linked, but is only the size of a small 10gig MP3 player. Yah I know, get a PDA. I just might do that.

Think I will try the free download trial and see how I like it compared to what I use now.

[alexp]

Myself and some friends created gymrecord.com (http://www.gymrecord.com) to help us track our weights sessions, runs, and physique (it also tracks diet, swimming, and cycling though). It's not designed for PDA's, but it is web based so it will work on windows, unix/linux, and macs. Sometimes we're on the road for business and because it's a web site we can workout and continue to track our performance. There's a full demo account at gymrecord.com if you wish to check it out.