Application Aims: Mobile Fitness And Nutrition Helper

Reviewer's Comments
We’re bombarded with all sorts of health information designed to help us eat well and exercise enough but it can be awfully difficult to compare what we actually do to what we should be doing on a daily basis. Ascendo Fitness is a remarkable tool for helping track what we do and compare it to all that great advice. The application makes it easy to keep track of food intake and the amount of exercise we do whether it’s running, lifting weights, or cleaning the house.

When setting up Ascendo fitness, data is entered regarding height and weight, age and gender. The program automatically computes things like ideal weight, Body Mass Index (BMI) and Basal Metabolism Rate so that you get instant comparison of the ideal and the way things really are. From there you simply enter food as you eat it and record exercise as it’s accomplished. Because the program is loaded with all the nutritional information for thousands of foods and the number of calories burned for given activities, it automatically calculates the number of calories consumed and used as well as other valuable nutrition information. You know in an instant whether your efforts will help you slim down or pack on the pounds. You can set daily nutritional and exercise goals and the application displays graphic comparisons of goal and actual behavior. As time goes by, you can easily track your progress reinforcing positive behavior and providing incentive to make necessary improvements.

Ascendo comes complete with an excellent desktop companion program that can be synchronized with your BlackBerry device. It allows you to enter and view information on the convenience of your computer. The developer also provides an excellent user guide in PDF format. At $29.99 you might find this application a bit pricey, but for the tremendous amount of information it provides, in a format that can actually generate action, it just might be the best money you could spend.

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