VidaOne Diet & Fitness is first-rate fitness software that helps you easily track your workout regimen and diet plan. You can set dietary goals, enter meals and get fast information about nutrition and whether you are eating the foods that will help you achieve your goals. As for exercising, you can track your workouts, health statistics and even such things as your sleep and mood. Its many features, ease of use and synchronization with numerous mobile devices earn it our TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award.
This fitness software is touted essentially as a diet aid for people who want to lose weight, but it has handy and useful features for individuals who want to track their fitness levels, a particular health condition or just keep a record of their overall fitness.
If you use a Windows-compatible handheld device, you'll appreciate VidaOne's capability to synchronize your computer with your device. You can keep a record of your meals, snacks and workouts no matter where you are and stick with whatever fitness plan you have chosen.
The Welcome Wizard will provide prompts to enter your personal profile. You may add profiles for as many users as you would like, and each profile can be password protected. You will enter your personal stats and your target weight and then move on to customize your meal information and workout schedule.
The summary can display nutrients (carbohydrates, protein, fat and saturated fat) and perform actions such as nutrient tracking (i.e., the number of carbohydrate grams you have eaten in a particular day if you are on a high-protein and low-carbohydrate diet). The software provides a pie chart of the source of energy from carbohydrates, proteins and fat you have consumed so far in a given day. It can even produce an energy-balance chart that shows you how many more calories you need to consume in a day.
The exercise module tracks both gym workouts and aerobic or sports activities. Find the strength and cardio data-entry windows and use the activity filter to customize your selections. With the organizer, you can add, delete, edit, import or export various activities as you choose.
VidaOne provides comprehensive tools to accurately track your activities, whether you have just joined a gym and are starting a workout routine or are an experienced athlete training for a marathon. If you purchase an add-on, you can take advantage of the simple drawings shown with each predefined exercise and the muscle chart to select exercises based on target areas. In addition to recording your workout routine, VidaOne allows you to track the weather, your energy levels and even your moods.
Convenient icons let you see your activities and progress for the month in one colorful calendar. Choose from many icons to graphically show your activities, from a 50-mile bike trip to an easy family ride. You also can see both your weight and calories consumed.
A key benefit of VidaOne Diet & Fitness is its compatibility with mobile devices. You can always use it on your PC, but you also can benefit from this product on your iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile or Palm OS. This mobility frees you from your desk and lets you carry your fitness plan with you everywhere – to restaurants, the gym, the track where you run, your office and anywhere else you go. You also can subscribe to VidaOne's newsletter and follow the company on Twitter.
This application offers a number of helpful bonus features. You can download workouts from most Polar heart-rate monitors; make use of calculators that analyze your basal metabolic rate (BMR), body mass index (BMI) and lean body mass (LBM); assess your BMI and blood pressure in the application's health-records section; observe the configurable summary; keep track of your measurements; add more to the strength-training exercises (repetition, duration, rest time and equipment, for example); use the application's track able gears to check distance or duration; record personal best workout stats; and more.
The summary view makes it easy to see a monthly snapshot of your fitness progress. Colorful graphs and useful icons give you a speedy analysis. You also can move easily from one area to another, such as the summary, journal, calendar, reports and graphs sections. Customize both food and activities to streamline tracking. Generate clear graphs to illustrate your progress.
You'll find VidaOne intuitive, easy to use and attractive. It offers the pleasant touch of letting you choose from three different colors for a background theme: silver, blue or black.
VidaOne provides healthy guidelines for losing weight. Once you have established your goal weight, this fitness software will calculate a realistic time period for the weight loss (or gain) you hope to achieve and the number of calories per day that you will need to record in order to stay on track.
You may choose from several popular diet plans: the USDA Food Pyramid, high carbohydrate, low carbohydrate, high protein, low protein, low fat, plant-based or vegetarian. If you are following a weight-loss program that tracks points, it also will provide food points so you can use that information.
As you enter the meals you want in the future, VidaOne will alert you to food choices that do not fit into the diet you have chosen. If you stray from the plan you have chosen, VidaOne will let you know, and you can look through its comprehensive food list for different choices.
You can use the food organizer to customize your food requirements to include only the foods you know you should eat for the particular diet you have selected. You can add or delete foods at any time and take advantage of the meal-scheduling feature. You also can select which nutrients or dietary items you want to track, such as total carbs, protein, total fat, calcium, cholesterol, fiber, iron, phosphorous, potassium, saturated fat, sodium, sugars and water.
You have the same kind of flexibility when it comes to entering data and recording your workouts. You can select exercises from a lengthy list of activities, and you also have the ability to add something new.
For help, you can check the PDF user guide that the company makes available. There is also a FAQs section online and, if you cannot find the answers you are seeking, you can send an email to VidaOne Diet & Fitness. Unfortunately, there is no toll-free phone support or user forum.
VidaOne Diet & Fitness provides a comprehensive fitness tracking system that lets you see at a glance how well you have done with your workout routine or where you may have slipped and need to make improvements. Its colorful charts and graphs make it abundantly clear where you stand with regard to your personal fitness goals. It also will quickly let you know if you need to make changes. It's hard to go wrong with this level of tracking.
Tracking your progress is simple and streamlined since this software is synchronized with so many popular handheld devices. With the portability this affords, you can record your progress as it occurs, no matter where you are or when you enter information. Each feature is designed to motivate you: friendly icons, customizable modules, diagrams, reports and charts. Whether you are at home or on the road, VidaOne Diet & Fitness is a top-notch application that will help you work toward achieving your fitness goals.
