FAQ Number : U1 Latest Update: 22/12/05
Setting Up & Printing Tailor-made Exercise Programs
This worked example shows you how to set up a tailor-made exercise program for a client, that consists of cardio work 3 times a week plus two sessions of strength training. Please create a NEW dummy user to try this out on, by running Fit File and adding a New User at the first screen. Go into setup and enter a dummy start and target weight.
Go
to Targets button at top of the screen and choose Exercise
Targets from the left.
Click on the button that says SETUP EXERCISE TARGETS, and accept the info page.
To add some cardio activity to your program–
1.
Click
on CARDIO button on left of screen
2. Look down the list (using scroll bars to go lower) and find an activity you like the look of. Click on the activity for a description to appear at the bottom of the screen. Please select Running 6mph by clicking on it.
3. In Targets area on RH side of screen click in the box under Time for the day you wish to do this activity and enter the amount of time to spend on it.
Please add the two additional target headings of km and pace, with units (at the bottom) of km and mins/mile and enter for time 30mins, 5km, and 12 miles/min for Mon, Thurs and Saturday
Click on SAVE TARGETS
To add strength / other activities to your program-
1. Click on Strength / Other on left of screen
2.
Look
down the list (using scroll bars to go lower) and find an exercise you like
the look of. Click on the exercise for a description to appear at the bottom
of the screen.
3. Click once on Show Exercise video for a demonstration of this exercise. Click again to stop demo. Please select Half Press Ups.
4. In Targets area on RH side of screen click in the box under Time for Tuesday and enter the amount of time to spend on it as 5. Enter the Reps as 12 and Sets as 2 in the adjacent columns.
5. Repeat for each day you wish to perform the activity - in our example Saturday.
Please select another 3 exercises, one at a time, and enter time of 5mins, reps 12 and sets 12 for each exercise on Tuesday and Saturday.
Click on SAVE TARGETS each time.
To change the order in which exercises should be performed –
Once you have selected the 4 strength exercises above for Tuesday and Saturday, click on the button that says ORDER TARGETS.
Use
the arrows at the top to move to Tuesday.
Move the Half Press Ups to a different slot in the program, by clicking on the line saying Half Press Ups and using the Arrows at the bottom to move its position.
Click on EXERCISE across the top when finished.
To change the description / write up for exercises–
1. Go to the EXERCISE section - find the exercise to change.
2. Click on the button EDIT EXERCISE
3. Change description as required
4. Click on SAVE CHANGES
To change the photograph and/or video to one of you for exercises –
First, you will of course need photos and/or videos for each exercise required. A standard digital camera will be fine for this, as the images are fairly small anyway.
Once photos or videos have been recorded, download them to your computer in the usual way. Then each one needs to be RENAMED appropriately. Please click here for names required.
Once renamed, use a photo editing program to ensure that any portrait photos are about 120x150 pixels in size, and landscape photos 180 x 120 in size. (If you aren’t sure how to do this, Fit File can assist on a chargeable basis)
Once named correctly, please COPY the pictures to the Fit File folder (usually C:\Program Files\Blue) and OVERWRITE the existing photos.
Go back into FitFile and check your photo’s are there by –
1. Find the exercise on the list
2. Click on the button EDIT EXERCISE
3. Click on CHECK PICTURE and make sure it more or less fits within the lines. If it does not, use a photo editing package to reduce the size as detailed aboce.
4. Click on CLOSE.
To add your own exercises that don’t appear on list –
1. Go to Cardio or Strength/Other or Programs as required. Click on the button ADD EXERCISE.
2. Enter a title, description and calories per hour.
3. If you have a video clip of the exercise enter its name in AVI name, and if you have a photo, enter it here. Check both to make sure they have been accessed correctly.
You can use any names you require here, but make sure photo names have the L or P to indicate landscape or portrait orientation.
4. Enter other information and SAVE.
Printing Reports
To print your exercise program go to the Reports section. Select the Personal Targets Report, and print either the whole report or just pages 5-7 for the exercise details.
To print feedback reports for exercise select Exercise Summary, or select exercise from pull-down list at bottom of page and print as required.