MySportTraining® for Android User’s Guide December 2010 This document applies to MySportTraining® 1.3 and newer for Android Copyright © 2010, VidaOne, Inc. All rights reserved.
Table of Contents 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................. 3 1.1. What is MySportTraining? ................................................................................. 3 1.2. VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows 7, Vista and XP ..................................... 4 1.3. Technical Support ............................................................................................... 5 2. Welcome Wizard ............
1. Introduction 1.1. What is MySportTraining? MySportTraining® is the premier Android application designed to help you track and improve your fitness. Simple and inexpensive, it allows you to keep a detailed daily log of your workouts and your health, and to review your performance and physical condition, whether to keep track of the activities you’re passionate about and are committed to, to track your progress toward a race or a distance goal, or simply to keep yourself in great fitness shape.
1.2. VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows 7, Vista and XP MySportTraining is compatible and fully synchronizes with VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.
If you’re using a Mac, the synchronization works when you run VidaOne Diet & Fitness in emulation on Mac OS X using Desktop Parallels® or VMware Fusion™. Figure 2: MySportTraining for Android synchronizes with VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows. More information about VidaOne Diet & Fitness, including various user’s guide such, are available at www.VidaOne.com/vodf_win.htm. 1.3. Technical Support You can obtain more information about our products, updates, etc.
2. Welcome Wizard The first time you open MySportTraining, the Welcome Wizard introduces you to the application and gathers your preferences and profile information (see Figure 3). You can specify whether to use American or Metric units, calories or kilojoules, and enter your profile. Your profile consists of your gender, birth year, weight and height, all required to perform various calculations as you enter workouts. You can change these settings at any time afterwards (see section 6).
3. Views MySportTraining is based on views that present your data in a different manner. There are four views, all explained in the following sections: Today, Journal, Calendar and Charts. Various tools are available via the Today’s menu. 3.1. Today Select Today to add workouts and health records: Touch the GPS icon to start recording an outdoor workout (see section 4.1). Touch the Workout icon to add any workout (see section 4.
3.2. Journal The Journal view shows all the workouts and health data for a given day You can scroll the list if required. You can use the left and right arrows at the top of the screen to switch to other days with data, or touch the date to pick a specific date. Press MENU to add a workout or health record for that day, as many as you need. Touch-and-hold a workout entry in the journal to display a popup menu to edit, copy or delete a workout. Touch-and-hold a health record entry to edit or delete it.
3.3. Calendar The Calendar allows you to quickly identify on which days you trained (see Figure 6). Some call it their training-at-a-glance, because you can immediately see how much (or little) you’ve worked in the past weeks. Use the left and right arrows at the top of the screen to switch months, or touch the date to pick a specific date. Each day you exercised is shown with the exercise’s icon and the duration of the workout.
3.4. Charts The Chart view allows you to see various reports and graphs about your workouts and health records, over any period of time. Charts are particularly useful because they provide a snapshot of your performance and condition, allowing you to appreciate your efforts, but also to make changes in your daily routines if needed.
Figure 7: Some of the charts that are available. The dotted line shows the average. You can also customize the appearance of the graphs to display lines instead of bars (see section 6.
Figure 8: The Other screen lets you choose any period to chart.
4. Entering Workouts There are multiple ways to enter workouts: 4.1. By recording “live” a route while exercising outdoor using your phone’s GPS capabilities (section 4.1) By choosing an activity and entering a workout (section 4.2) By copying an existing workout (section 4.5). GPS Recording One of the most exciting features of MySportTraining is the GPS recording of your outdoor workouts.
One the location is acquired, the live recording begins as soon as you start moving, and pauses when you stop. That means you can put your Android phone back in your pocket or backpack and go. You can disable this “Auto-stop” feature via the GPS Recording’s settings, via MENU > Settings > Auto-start. The Settings screen also allows you to keep the screen on, set the distance and speed units, and choose how to display GPS coordinates.
Select Manual so that laps are added only when you touch the Lap button in the GPS Recording screen. Select Position for laps to be automatically added when you pass nearby a specific location. To set the location, go to that location and touch the button Set Lap Position to Here. Tracking laps using this method is useful because you can see if the final laps took longer, possibly indicating that you started too strong and grasped to finish the last laps.
These buttons allow you to display various input fields: Summary (shown) Location (strength) or route (cardio) Exercises (strength) or intervals (cardio) Heart rate monitoring Gears Custom fields (requires VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows) Note Figure 11: Entering workout data (strength at left, cardio at right). Make sure to select an activity (a workout cannot be saved without one). Enter the date and time. Enter the duration.
Cardio workout only: choose the Route button to enter route information: course, distance, pace, ascent, weather, temperature, wind and humidity. select Course to see a list of courses. The list is initially empty; press MENU to add your own courses. Cardio workout only: choose the Intervals button to see a list of intervals (or enter some). See section Entering Cardio Training Intervals for more information about entering intervals. Touch the Laps button to switch to laps instead of intervals.
Entering Cardio Training Intervals You can enter interval training with cardio workouts Select a cardio workout and choose the Intervals button . If you selected a past workout that had laps, touch Intervals to enter intervals (you will be prompted to delete existing laps, if any). Touch Add Interval to display the Edit an Interval screen (see Figure 12). Touch Select Interval to display a screen with a list of intervals. Touch an entry to select it.
Entering Laps You can manually enter and edit laps with cardio workouts: Select a cardio workout and choose the Laps button . If you selected a past workout that had intervals, touch Laps to enter laps (you will be prompted to delete existing intervals, if any). Touch Add Lap to display the Edit a Lap screen and enter a lap duration, along the average heart rate and a note. Touch-and-hold a lap entry to edit or delete it. Figure 13: Entering a lap.
Entering Strength Training Exercises You can enter detailed exercises for strength workouts: Select a strength activity, select the Exercises button and tap Select Exercise to choose an exercise. MySportTraining comes with popular exercises, but press MENU to add your own.
Press MENU to scratch an exercise (a useful method for indicating that you did not complete that exercise but want to keep it in the list nonetheless), chart or list previous sets of that exercise (to see your progression). Figure 15: Editing an exercise sets. In this case, different sets are entered for the exercise. Enter the units. It is best to use the same unit when entering other instances of that exercise.
4.3. Editing a Workout You can edit a workout by tapping on it in the Journal view. 4.4. Deleting a Workout Deleting a workout permanently erases the workout data. To delete a workout, touch-andhold it in the Journal and select Delete Workout. 4.5. Copying a Workout To add an exercise similar to one you’ve completed, go in the Journal, touch-and-hold the past workout and select Copy Workout. You will be prompted for the date of the new workout (today will be shown).
Figure 16: Adding a custom activity lets you specify the exact calories you burn. Since you can create as many activities as you need, you can easily enter new workouts that have a different focus. Edit Custom Activities To edit your own activities, add a workout to display the activity list., then tap-and-hold on an activity to delete it. Your activities are listed in bold (see Figure 16).
4.7. Planning and Entering a Workout Schedule You can combine multiple features of MySportTraining (explained in the previous sections) to plan a schedule consisting of a variety of workouts.
5. Entering Health Data A health record can be added using different ways: In the Today screen, touch Health Record. In the Journal, select MENU > Add Health Record. You can enter the following information for each health record: Date and time. Weight, either in lb or kg (based on the selected measurement unit setting). Body fat percentage. Mood. Sleep quality of it and time Resting heart beat rate (beats per minute), taken at rest e.g. when waking up.
6. Settings MySportTraining has various settings to personalize how the data is presented. From the Today screen, press MENU > Settings. The Settings screen shows the version currently installed (e.g. “1.3”). If you are using a trial version, “Trial” is displayed next to the version number. 6.1. Profile Choose Profile to edit the following information: 6.2. Units, either American or Metric Energy units, either calories or kilojoules.
Figure 17: You can select different color themes! MySportTraining Android User’s Guide 27
7. Features Several utilities are available from the Today screen. 7.1. Activity Filter You can choose to display a subset of the activities you practice by applying a filter. Filtered activities are hidden from the Journal, Calendar and Charts. This is useful if for instance, you are a cyclist and record both your Road cycling and Mountain biking workouts, and need to review only your road cycling workouts.
7.2. Personal Best You can see a list of your ‘personal best’ workouts i.e. those whose rating is set to Personal Best by choosing Today > Fitness Tools > Personal Best (see Figure 19). All workouts (regardless of their date) whose rating is Personal Best will be listed. Figure 19: The Personal Best workouts.
7.3. Training Zones Training zones are essential for heart-based monitoring training. MySportTraining helps you identifying your training zone if you use a heart rate monitor: Choose Today > Fitness Tools > Training Zones. The Training Zones window is shown (see Figure 20). Enter your maximum heart rate. The default is set to 220 minus your age, provided you entered your birth year in the profile.
7.4. Workout Gear You can track the gear you use for your workouts, either by distance or duration. This is very helpful regarding their maintenance and replacement.
7.5. Search Notes You can search for a word in the notes you’ve entered in workouts and health records. From the Today screen and press MENU> Search Notes. Enter a word in the search edit box at the top of the screen, and touch the Search button. Workout and health records whose notes contain the word will be displayed. Touch an entry to review or edit it. 7.6. Data Backup The data are stored in the internal memory for improved performance. To make a backup on the storage card (e.g.
7.8. Data Purge To reduce and save storage space, you can delete past workout and health data that you no longer need. Purging data erases information that cannot be recovered from MySportTraining. The data that is erased is workout and health information. Custom names such as activity names, exercises, intervals, etc. are not erased. If you are using VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows, records that are purged will also be deleted from your PC after synchronizing.
7.9. Synchronization MySportTraining fully synchronizes with VidaOne Diet & Fitness for Windows (www.vidaone.com/vodf3_win.htm) via Wi-Fi, allowing you to use your PC and your Android phone to track your health and fitness, and make (precious!) backup of the MySportTraining data. The synchronization also works when using VidaOne Diet & Fitness under Parallels Desktop® and VMware Fusion™ on Mac OS X. PDF documents that explain how to setup each emulator are available at the web address above.
Please refer to VidaOne Diet & Fitness user’s guide for additional information about VidaOne NetSync. Troubleshooting If the synchronization does not happen, here are a few things to check for. First make sure that Wi-Fi is turned ON on your phone, and that the address and port are entered correctly. When you run VidaOne NetSync for the first time, your firewall might ask you to unblock it. Make sure you choose to unblock it. Figure 24: You might have to unblock VidaOne NetSync.
Figure 25: The Synchronization screen with a computer address and port.
8. Using MySportTraining Whereas the previous sections have explained MySportTraining features, this section presents how to apply them not only to make MySportTraining easier to use, but also to monitor (and adjust) your workouts to achieve your fitness goals. 8.1. Data Entry Tips Here are a few tips to take advantage of what MySportTraining offers: Use a workout schedule with various workouts, each with a specific focus, as presented in section Planning and Entering a Workout Schedule on page 24.
8.2. Reviewing Your Performance The Journal provides you with the right workout information. Regularly review your past workouts – especially those for when you felt very strong – and identify the conditions that led to better results. For instance, if you find out that your best workouts were achieved when waking up with a low heart rate, you may want to back off when you wake up with an elevated one.
For those carefully tracking their weight, use the calorie burning and intake, body weight, and body fat charts to track your progress. For example, if you are new to exercising, your weight and body fat will decrease as a result of burning fat (your body uses fat among other nutriments for “fuel” when exercising).
