Application Aims: Gym Teacher On A BlackBerry

Reviewer’s Comments
In school and little league football we called them calisthenics. Nobody particularly liked doing them but we all believed that they were good exercise. They’re still good exercises that can be done without equipment just about anywhere but, despite this application’s attempt to make a game of them by guessing which card color will come up next, there aren’t many who are going to find them fun.

FitDeck Mobile BODYWEIGHT states that it’s not just another tracking app. Indeed it’s not a tracking app at all. The long and short of this program is that it presents fifty screens, which it calls cards, each of which has dated black-and-white drawings of someone performing an exercise. Under the drawings there are written instructions for completing the exercise correctly. The cards are color coded corresponding to upper, middle, lower, and total body exercises. Cards can be selected by name from a list, by category, or shuffled, allowing the application to randomly select the next exercise.

The FitDeck Mobile BODYWEIGHT application has value in that it can be a reminder to work out and it can offer advice regarding the correct execution of a given exercise. Nonetheless, we expect more of a BlackBerry application than can be gleaned from a poster on a gymnasium wall. There are numerous other applications in this category which are more worthy of consideration.

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