I am looking for a fitness app to track weight training and sports I perform every day. So far I have found Ascendo Fitness and Total Fitness from MOBITEQ. The former crashed on me and gave me errors twice so far while the latter has worked well except for a bug in the table where it stores reps and weights.

What are you guys using to track your exercises? I am also planning to buy one of these apps. What is the best place? Handango?

Cheers!
OP

Don't take this the wrong way but I hate when people carry around their phones at the gym. Unless your a doctor on call or the president why do you need it? Exercise should be to get away from everything. Use the good ole pad of paper.

I had the same problem with Ascendo. I tried ideaMatrix and have never looked back. This is what I do, for example, created a drawer labeled xxx8220;WOShoulders (deltoid)xxx8221;, then create folders for each deltoid exercise, Iso-Lateral BN Press, Arnold Dumbbell Press, Press seated Machine etc. Once those are created you can add notes to each exercise, weight used x reps.

The key is to setup your drawers and folders prior to working out then creating notes is a piece of cake when performing your exercise while you rest in between reps.
I have a tendency to forget what weight Ixxx8217;ve use, this helps me keep in touch with what Ixxx8217;m using from day to day. Carrying around a pad and paper would get in the way, Ixxx8217;m already carrying around my towel and my universal storm drink.

It's possible to track your exercise and nutrition without bringing your cell with you into the equipment area. I use my memory (i.e. my own brain) and a desktop pc excel application that I wrote to track total caloric/protein intake/consumption as I am targeting a very specific lean mass goal.

However, currently I carry a little sheet of paper around with my weight lifting routines. This will soon be replaced with technology --

I've looked at blackberry applications, but have settled on a fitness watch instead (geared toward weight lifters.) The watch will track my heart rate while working out and also my actual workout routines via a website where I can add/edit specific exercise sets and reps and then update the information in the watch.

I haven't received the watch yet, but expect the display to show something like this as I go: "Squats, Set 1 of 3, 14 reps, 90 lbs" (and then you click a button to tell the watch you've completed the set and on to the next.)

What would be really cool would be to integrate: 1) fitness watch data output (i.e. heart rate and exercise information from each workout), 2) segmental body composition test results, and 3) nutrition information (blackberry would be *great* for tracking nutrition intake) to project a date you will reach your fitness goal (so you can ramp up or just maintain based on your current fitness level and projected goal date: such as the date of an athletic event.)

-C

note: the watch is the women's version of the Polar F55 and the segmental body composition is from the Tanita BC-545