Vivonic Fitness Planner

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Summary: Hard to use but full of good information.
Review: Well to begin with it isnt very user friendly.
But when one figures out how to use the program its ok.

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Summary: An excellent program
Review: While I had only used the trial version of the Vivonic Fitness Trainer, I found that it contained all of the tools necessary to design and monitor a personal fitness program. Everything is easy to customize, from the days on which you work out to the type of exercise you do. Keeping track of calories and nutrients is simple with the food-journal...you simply type in what you ate and how much, and it calculates everything for you. These great tools are easy to use, and the interface is attractive. I highly recommend this program, especially to those on weight loss programs or those who have other fitness and nutrition goals.

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Summary: Hard to use but full of good information.
Review: 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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Summary: Ugh!!!
Review: 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.