Secret Formula: Ultimate Fitness - Male

Rating:
Summary: At least it's a nice box!
Review: It seems that Encore spent more time and money on package design than on R&D. First, the software is focused almost entirely on health club workouts (Smith machine and cable exercises) and much too light on dumbell/barbell exercises that would make sense for somebody working out at home...near a computer! This only makes sense if you're working on paper, in which case you don't need a computer, just a log. This is the most glaringly stupid aspect of this software, but there's more. Secondly, after the user has gone through the very tedious process of creating a routine (not user friendly at all), the routine's exercises list out in alphabetical order instead of being organized by day in the workout cycle and from major to minor muscle groups. Ridiculous. Finally, the resultant printout isn't anything you could easily use at a health club unless you export the info into an Excel spreadsheet or Word table and reorganize and format it. However, it would be a shame if they don't look at this as a beta version and make appropriate improvements. Anybody else remember Personal Trainer with Shane Minor? That was a much better program when it was first released, but it wasn't further developed.

Rating:
Summary: At least it's a nice box!
Review: It seems that Encore spent more time and money on package design than on R&D. First, the software is focused almost entirely on health club workouts (Smith machine and cable exercises) and much too light on dumbell/barbell exercises that would make sense for somebody working out at home...near a computer! This only makes sense if you're working on paper, in which case you don't need a computer, just a log. This is the most glaringly stupid aspect of this software, but there's more. Secondly, after the user has gone through the very tedious process of creating a routine (not user friendly at all), the routine's exercises list out in alphabetical order instead of being organized by day in the workout cycle and from major to minor muscle groups. Ridiculous. Finally, the resultant printout isn't anything you could easily use at a health club unless you export the info into an Excel spreadsheet or Word table and reorganize and format it. However, it would be a shame if they don't look at this as a beta version and make appropriate improvements. Anybody else remember Personal Trainer with Shane Minor? That was a much better program when it was first released, but it wasn't further developed.