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2 stars
Version: PDAbs for Palm OS 5
"Hard to use -- motivates me to find something else"
Pros: It tracks, charts and manages resistance workouts well. It also does the same for cardio workouts. It tracks progress as well as anything.
Cons: The user interface flaws are striking, and would be shockingly easy to fix. Editing exercises and adding new ones is buried in the Edit Categories dialog. You can�t add new muscle groups. You can�t make cardio exercises (i.e., warmup) part of a routine � routines are only resistance exercises. Flexibility isn�t tracked at all. The pull down menus are enormous and difficult to select on a palm � if a letter could be selected, or a cascading menu used, it would make it so much easier. The number pulldowns are irritating because they skip numbers; so if I want to set a weight at �3� for the ab machine, I can�t. I have to normalize everything to 10 lbs. When creating a routine, an apply button would make it so much simpler than exiting the �add exercise� menu each and ever time.
Fonts and text size � and window size � can�t be adjusted on the windows side. When it starts, it starts behind anything on your screen without any indication that it�s there.
Routines are frustrating because they cover only resistance, not cardio. So if you have a set of cardio exercises, you have to add them individually, each time. And selecting them is horrific. You can�t specify a warmup as part of your resistance.
Flexibility isn�t covered at all.
And you better not track anything on the windows side, since it may � or may not -- download to your palm.
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