Weightmania Reviewer's Comments
Weightmania is serious software and earns “TopTenREVIEWS' Bronze Award." You can add many details about your workouts and food consumption, but you’ll have to start from scratch. You won’t find convenient lists to choose from or inspiring graphic charts, but you'll be able to track your results from every angle. Weightmania's emphasis is on the math: basic statistics can be automatically calculated to track progress with your exercise routine and your diet.
Weightmania offers a sophisticated framework for recording detailed exercise and diet information. Every entry is analyzed to show statistics for the corresponding data range. Access summaries by the day, the week, the month and the year. Track medical conditions, including diabetes, and check these throughout your training regime.
Exercise
Weightmania divides exercise into the two standard areas: strength training and cardio. The strength training module includes many common weight lifting exercises and a muscle chart to aid in selection when targeting a specific area. Share routines with integrated email with other Weightmania users.
The cardio module includes a creative list of activities including car repair and unicycling. Add activities to the database to reflect your schedule. Track and graph duration and intensity for each session. Record laps/steps, cadence, incline and other variables that affect your workout. At the end of each session, inject a little personality and rate your workout with a happy face, a neutral face or a sad face.
Nutrition
Weightmania encourages you to plan and record all of your meal selections. The program includes an 8,000 item USDA database. You can track points for specific foods as required by certain diets like Atkins. Weightmania will generate a pie chart to reflect a percentage breakdown of your daily food intake by basic nutrients. Store foods you regularly eat in the favorites menu for easy retrieval. You can customize your food database and track calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, sugar, sodium, cholesterol, and fiber.
Bonus Features
- More calculators than any other program including Calories Burned, Calories Required, Distance/Time/Pace/Speed, and Splits.
- Web Link Manager to easily store your favorite fitness related sites
- Store your favorite healthy recipes with nutrient information and photos.
- Compatible Weightmania Mobile™ available to keep your fitness on track away from home.
Exercise & Nutrition:
Ease of Use:
Weightmania is easy to use. Each module reflects the same design. Color coding is effectively used to differentiate exercise and diet information in the calendar view. You’ll have plenty of room to add your own information, but don’t look for built-in extras like recipes, exercise photos or helpful graphic charts. This is strictly a do-it-yourself program.
Help/Support:
Weightmania's help section includes Tips for New Users and a Quick Start Guide. Once you start the program, you can access a comprehensive 60-page user guide built into the Help or download the user guide from the Weightmania web site. Also online, you may check the FAQs or submit an email request to Technical Support.
Summary:
Weightmania is a sophisticated fitness program including modules to track exercise and nutrition in great detail, the keys to fitness success. However, it lacks the more colorful motivational tools of the top two ranked products. If you are a statistician at heart and take your fitness seriously, Weightmania is a good match for you.
