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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Ugh!!!, January 16, 2002
While the program has a good database of exercises (with a lot with cool demo's) and nutrition, it's hard to navigate and has a bad interface. The program window is a fixed size and text overlaps. The programmer's solution is to change your screen size!!! I like my screen the way it is and won't change it to run just this program! I set up my exercise plan and found that it was time-consuming to manipulate. For instance, for three sets of one exercise, you have to click several things to get the exercise to show up and then repeat the process two more times instead of allowing for a copy/paste. I tried to print my plan and I got one page that had the days on it and the second page had the last third of my workout on it. It comes preset with a calories burned report and the ability to customize other reports. Again, a time-consuming process involving multiple clicks. To sum up: Good database of exercises and nutrition, nice demo's, bad interface, time-consuming customization of plans and reports, bad printout of plans. Look elsewhere to spend your money.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Alot of great features for planning your fitness program, February 15, 2002
By A Customer
Vivonics Fitness Planner has alot of features that are really a pleasure to discover. One thing that I think is outstanding is the way it shows anything that you have eaten too much of in red. That's great...but even better, when you click on it, you are shown which of the foods contain it and how much from most to least. Since I teach dance, I do notice that it is hard to find fitness information that includes dance as an exercise. Dancers are very fitness conscious and it should be included in more books and programs. I do doubt that there is a better Fitness planning program than this one. It is very easy to locate foods and nutrients, etc. I am still learning to use it...but it isn't difficult at all. I really do recommend it.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very useful to those for whom 'diet' is a bad word, November 10, 2002
Keeping a food journal is the ONLY way I can get a handle on my eating since I am loathe to even consider a formal diet.
Beginning to journal daily eating was a good first step for me and once that became an established routine I searched for a program to help me keep track of nutrients, carbohydrates and fiber. Vivonic suits me very well for this and more. I can tell at a glance which vitamins I'm not getting enough of, what my percentages of fat, carbohydrates and protein are and approximately how many calories my daily exercise burned. One completes the screens for "The Plan" which asks questions about fitness level, weight, goals, level of activity and that sort of thing. At the end Vivonic supplies the number of calories one needs to eat and the number one needs to burn in order to lose weight at a moderate pace (if one choses the weight loss option). I adjusted the carb, fat, protein and fiber numbers to suit my own eating style and created custom reports for carbs and fiber so I can keep an eye on both.
I've learned a lot about my eating since using Vivonic, primarily that I don't eat as much protein as I thought even though I strive toward a lower carbohydrate diet and, as I suspected, I'm usually nowhere near the 25 g of fiber I think is ideal. And, even with a daily multiple vitamin I was always short on magnesium and vitamin e and have begun to supplement them seperately. Adding custom foods isn't hard though it's a bit of a pain in the beginning. I wish Vivonic syched with my Pocket PC, allowing me to see my counts away from home, but it currently supports the Palm platform and its own dedicated device only. Instead, I note in my PPC what I've eaten and record it manually at home. As time has gone on I have a very good sense about how much I can eat without slavishly referring to a book of calorie counts. Overall, a very useful program.
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