Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm

by Vivonic

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005444V
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 27, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,154 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Be gone, personal trainer--welcome, Vivonic Fitness Planner! Whether you're looking to lose a couple of pounds for the holidays or you're training for the Iron Man competition, Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm OS devices can assist you in reaching your personal fitness goals.

Installation is quick and easy. Initial setup calls for spending some time with the PC software, entering your current statistics and information regarding your goals. Vivonic Fitness Planner asks first for information regarding your height, weight, current fitness rate, current exercise program, and nutrition habits. Then it asks keys questions that are designed to determine your goals. Goals can range from muscle building to cardiac stamina to weight loss.

Once you've completed the initial setup series, you're ready to take your show on the road! By syncing your Palm OS device, all of this information is downloaded to your handheld. You can enter easily anything that you eat throughout the day and any calories that are spent on general living, and update your exercise regimen.

While the Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm might seem a bit extreme for everyday use, it can be invaluable to anyone who has specific and predetermined fitness goals. It might be a bit impractical for someone who's looking to maintain a current body weight or size; but, for someone who wants to make life changes, but can't afford a personal trainer to assist, this tool is without a doubt the perfect choice. --Kendra Hayden

Amazon.com Product Description

Vivonic Fitness Planner Software for Palm OS devices not only helps you plan your fitness program and track your progress, but also offers guidance along the way. The Plan Wizard stores information about your age, weight, exercise habits, family history, and overall fitness goals. Detailed reports allow you to track your progress, and see how well you're meeting your goals. You can compare, for example, your planned caloric intake with your actual caloric intake, and see how this stacks up against your caloric burn activities.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Doing what I intend to do!, January 22, 2001

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"dawnsgoodstuff" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm (CD-ROM)

I loaded Vivonic on my PDA just after the holidays--and after one more round of promises to myself to manage my nutrition and fitness more carefully. It's been an incredible help!! Instead of carrying around a notebook to keep a food diary, and then looking up the nutritional info--or worse, typing it into my desktop, I can now make a note of everything I eat and drink AND keep useful, up-to-date records of my workouts!

I really like being able to access a report on my PDA throughout the day that includes the most important information--total calories, fat, etc. (Makes it easy to decide, for instance, where to eat dinner tonight!) Then later, at my desktop, I can get very complete information about most any vitamin or nutrient. Sure, there are a few foods that aren't in the food list, but not many--and I find the program very easy to use, and easy to add my custom foods to.

Vivonic can't force you to stay in shape, but it CAN make it easier to know the truth about what you're doing and eating. A great tool toward personal fitness and wellness.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Nutrition and Excercise Tracker, June 20, 2001

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Zerofish "thedeliberate" (Corinth, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm (CD-ROM)

I had been using Richard Simmons "Food Mover" but it wasn't giving me any insight as to what I was doing wrong. After using the Vivonic for a couple of weeks I could see my problem was in carbohydrates. I also wasn't exercising enough. With the Vivonic and my Palm Vx (I keep it in a wallet holder so I have it with me all the time) I could add foods as I ate them and could see how many calories I had left. The software comes with a wide selection of foods so it is relatively easy to add them into the system. You can also add custom foods and yes, it has fast food listings also.

PROS: Convenient to have with me especially since I already own and use a Palm Pilot. Easy data entry. Large database of foods, including fast foods. Easily can add additional foods yourself. Can create your own exercise programs. Updates are easily downloaded from the Internet. Good reporting on calories consumed and calories burned.

CONS: No snack areas so must enter snack times with meal times. No weight progress chart in the reporting system. (i.e. it doesn't show statisitcs from my measurements, weight, and body fat percentage). I would like to see my goals being obtained.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good by me, July 13, 2001

By A Customer

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This review is from: Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm (CD-ROM)

The software met my expectations in most respects, and actually exceeded them in the amount of detailed nutritional information it provided; some of which has already caused me to modify my eating habits in less than a week. For example, I was surprised to see how much sugar I was getting from the non-fat milk in the many lattes I was drinking.

I would agree with the shortcomings mentioned in the other reviews:

1) it is nearly impossible to add foods or exercises that are not in the rather limited database.

2) I was surprised that the software does not graph things like body weight, body fat, etc., considering it graphs food intake.

3) I'll add that I find some of the calorie consumption totals from exercise wildely optimistic. For example, the software listed 790 calories burned from 30 minutes on the Nordic Trak at aerobic intensity levels. The Nordic Trak and my heart rate monitor both calculated the same level to within 2 calories--475. However, this was easy to correct by just reducing the intensity level in the software to get the correct calorie total.

All in all, though, I view this as a fun and easy to use piece of software which seems a great value.