Hey everyone,

I'm new here, and I'll be posting my introductory post soon, but I had a question.

Do any of you use software to keep track of your fitness/health goals? I haven't been able to find any mac software that I really like, that work really well for me, and let me do the things that I want (like decent graphing!).

Since I'm a software engineer, I'm even thinking about writing one. If you could have the ultimate tool for tracking your fitness/health goals, what features would you like to have? Just curious since I know what I want, but I'm fairly new to all of this.

Thanks!

-seb

........eh?

LOL!

I don't really know of any. I am not interested in it either, because you can really just write stuff down on paper and it takes lesss amount of time doing so also.

Good luck though.

I have created mine using excel spreadsheets. From there, I can easily create graphs and charts from my data. I also do this for my clients.

I use "serve" its A nutrition programme

Do you mean something like Yourself!Fitness? (this software has gotten FANTASTIC reviews...)

tell us about it!

programs are slow, you have to get on the computer every day, usually have to pay.

I have a book and on each left hand page I write my workout, on the right I write my food and at the back I write in all my notes.

you dont really need to get any more complicated than that.

For those of you who may be interested, I just bought Yourself!Fitness for the PS2, and it TOTALLY KICKED MY BUTT.

Wow. What a workout! I can't believe all the features this game has (cardio, upper-body, lower-body, yoga, pilates, meal planning, fitness tests...). Totally worth the price.

Hi Rip,

I'm new here (hi everyone!), I was reading this thread and I was wondering if you would be willing to share your spreadsheet? I am working on one for personal use I wouldn't mind having some new ideas.

-John

I will post it when I get home...

Hi, I'm after the same sort of thing. I don't want something that will tell me what to do like 'Yourself!Fitness' but just something that I can enter details and progress into, like when I train and for how long. What my weight, blood pressure, body fat % and pulse are each day (or week) which can then be shown as a graph.

Some of us preffer to use our PC than a pen and paper... drawing graphs and flicking through books can be a pain you see

I also have a PDA. It would be great to have software that would sync with this too. No-one know of anything that can do all this?

**EDIT** This looks interesting, although I was after something a little cheaper really -

http://www.vidaone.com/

Here is my workout worksheet. And, I included a publisher file (if you have MS Publisher) that is a routine to blast your core.

BTW - the Excel file has multiple worksheets (tabs)...

Enjoy,
Rip

Attached Files

Workout.zip (55.3 KB, 65 views)

Thanks Rip,

That's awesome, I will use it to design a spreadsheet for myself.

John

I found this one also. I haven't used it but it looks interesting.

http://www.workoutware.com/