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Viaden · Aug 2, 2012

Win $25 iTunes gift cards with Fitness for iPad!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitness-for-ipad/id365496638?mt=8

And our winners are marcfizzy and wilflare!

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all participants

CocaCola · Aug 2, 2012

App Store Nickname: SupermanGRG
Review:

Worth the download
Great app. Big help staying on track and I use it every workout. I would like to see a summary view of a workout. Now to view all exercises in a single workout you have to edit each set to view. More refined search for exercises, its some times difficult to narrow search.

dreadnok · Aug 3, 2012

Reviewed as dreadnok

By Far The Best!!
Without a doubt this is my one exercise app, last year I lost over 40lbs with some serious dieting and a steady workout plan, I was able to use this app for my home gym workouts and have been able to keep the weight off with it's help.I saw a lot of reviews complaining about paying more but the fact is the content provided for free is more than enough for anybody serious about fitness and everything else is extra icing on top, so you decide,pay extra for the premium offerings or stick with the ample supply of content that given free.

This is really a #fantastic app,with 100s of great exercises plus new #workouts added constantly,it features the ability to share them with friends, a fitness magazine(premium content),you can cater the exercise to your gender,and now many different languages are available, and if you prefer you can now have the exercises in a PDF form as well.

By downloading the content you will give yourself instant access to all the great workouts on the go. Quick Recipes give you tailored workouts based on .Goal Level or Gender while Personal Trainer allows you to enter data to have them create a fitness routine for you.

Besides that you still get a video audio and text to teach you each exercise plus the pictures then you also still have that great X-ray pictures showing exactly which muscles are worked with the exercises .
Some great improvement have been made(audio and video added to yoga) but these are what I think are still missing

1)I still wish the audio and video was combined or at least have the complete audio and not have the video play with the ending audio.
2) I also think there should have a warm up section to get your blood flowing before you start include stuff like jumping jacks running in place etc#
3)the Cardio section with no videos or audio at all that's a major issue.
4)They should offer at least one magazine free to let us know exactly what we would be getting with out subscription.
5)Lastly I noticed that you only get access to both audio and video in the Base Section but only video in the My Workouts section
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Bartow · Aug 4, 2012

Reviewed as bartow7 on US app store

It's really a great program that teaches you how to excerise yourself.It contains a lot of video what teach you how to do it!totally worth it!
There are my suggestion:1)Hope add multi-people management.2)Wish add multi-language package to make more people use it!3)Improve the download video source.
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armoko · Aug 6, 2012

Reviewed as Arutyun Mokoyan in the US AppStore

Best Fitness app!
Fitness for iPad is the best fitness app! All features what you need for fitness in one app! It includes calorie counter, body tracker, a lot of fitness exercises and yoga poses, pedometer.Huge database of fitness exercises with detailed photo,video and audio description. You can also add your own exercises. There are a lot of training programs for you or you can create your own individual workouts. With calorie counter you can track your burnt and consumed calories, nutrition info, check your daily progress calorie goal. Another great features that you can monitoring your body parameters in form of graphs.
Nice to see this big update with a lot of new features like new workouts, sharing workouts with friends on twitter or facebook, All-in Fitness magazine with new content.
Fitness for iPad is very useful and efficient app! Excellent convenient interface! Definitely recommend this app to everyone to keep your body strong and healthy!
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danielfan · Aug 7, 2012

Reviewed as danielfanu on the US store

When I saw the first screenshot, I guess I've been turned up.

After using the iPhone version for sometime I'm impressed. It is awesome, the best fitness app I've ever used. So I decide to try the iPad version. Like the iPhone version it includes thousands of fitness and yoga exercises and workouts. Each of them come with detailed text, photo and video instructions which could ensure you do each exercise correctly. All these contents are in HD quality. With several build-in tools it can calculate calorie, track my body. The new UI is well designed, I like it although it is a little complicated for me. The preset workouts are good and enough for me. It would be better if it could be updated from time to time. It now became the only workout app in my iPad.
Awesome, finally all logs could be exported. Thank you.
Overall, its definitely a great app that is worth your every penny, nice job!! Highly recommended.

Something needs to be improved:

1. It would be better if I could setup a reminder in the app to remind me to fill new data of my body in the Body tracker. I always forgot to fill it. And of course it would be better if it could sync with the Calendar app like the reminder of Trainning Plan do.
2. I'm a lazy guy. I ate almost the same food every day. Can you provide a way to duplicate the foods of some day in the past from breakfast to snacks so that I don't have to select them all over again.
3. Can you provide an option to select background music when I'm doing the workouts?
4. Hope it could support the new iPad in the future updates.
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MuMiN · Aug 7, 2012

Reviewed as Mohaimin Zack in US AppStore

Live healthy and shape your body with this Fitness app. Fitness is very useful and great app! Recommended for those who want to keep their body strong and healthy!

With 700 videos and exercises plus 300 yoga videos. You follow the exercise via audio, picture or video. Keep track your BMI and stay fit & healthy. With this app you wont need a personal trainer and go often to the gym. Use it everywhere, in your house, outdoor or recreational place.

Let keeps our life healthier and love ourself.
Would like to see an upgrade improvement to make this app better.
a) User can choose their level, eg. Beginner, Intermediate, Advance in their profile. And the workout that shown would be sync with their level and gender. So they wont need to choose their workout again.
b) Give a few full magazine article and the user could print out the magazine article.
c) User can took and save a picture of them before and after using the Fitness app. So they can make the comparison physically from the picture. A gallery menu maybe could be use for store the image.
d) Mini dictionary description about the body part, muscle or any gym/workout term. So that the beginner user could understand more.
e) Let the user choose a music from their music to listen while using the app.
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lopatiy · Aug 7, 2012

reviewed as lopatiyi
It has lots of advantages like beautiful design that looks great on iPad, calorie counter, daily activity tracker, rich exercise database, and ability to ask support on any subject. As a result this app is all-in tool that helps you to keep fit and stay healthy. Beautiful User Interface make it easy to use so even newbie can understand how it works. But it has the only minus: because of big amount of exercises size of all media is around 1Gb, I think it will be better if users have chance to download pictures and videos separately like in previous iPhone versions (and trick for developers, instead of record long videos you can shoot short 3 second clips and repeat them, i think it will reduce the size by half or more). Concerning minor improvements please add Retina Display Support, Ability to change language manually and more Calculators like Body Fat Calculator and Total Daily Energy Expenditure calc.

xbeta · Aug 7, 2012

Reviewed in US App store with five stars as xbetayll:

My Professional Personal Fitness Coach
Update: Thanks for the fix now the app gets more solid and awesome.
The data export feature is really considerate and sweet! Facebook login support is so convenient and cooool! Now this app gets more perfect and amazing!

Fitness for iPad is definitely the best and most professional fitness app on iPad! Impressive and extremely helpful for your body fit!
With this app I can excercise with the equipments at spare time such as at home or in the office, even on the go, very useful for me! Always makes my life easier and saves a lot, it has now been my personal coach instead, which works perfectly 'cause it actually knows me better with the built-in BMI tracker. Neatly design and user-friendly interface makes this app such easy to use that even my dad can handle it without obstacles. Huge video collections of so many exercises as guidance which covers almost everything about fitness! The built-in calorie counter combined with detailed guidence always get my excercise efficient and effective! Twice the result with half the effort, it always makes me motived and enthusiastic to keep going. Now I feel full of energy all day! Super love!
BTW, my dad has now began to get himself exercised with this app and it works pretty well with my dad, he looks really sharp now!
Also you can show off your workout on twitter or facebook, sweet and considerate.

Definitely the one if you're looking for a fitness app for your iPad!
Highly recommended as the best fitness app for $0.99 only!
Grab it and keep exercising to make you energetic all day Now!

Suggestion:
1,I would love the request for the support for the New iPad, the current version looks misty on New iPad;
2,Hope more localization for the app also the video and audio guifence which would involve more people in this app;
3,Hope there would be appendix added which would explain some phrases or technical terms for new users, sometimes my dad might need it while I'm not at home.
4,more excercises and courses added.
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Thanks for the update and contest.

kogaa555 · Aug 7, 2012

reviewed as deadpuma on US Store

Amazing Fitness app!
Absolutely great Fitness app for iPad! This app contains everything what you need for practice in Fitness not only for begginers but also for professionals and gurus. Huge database of exercises for different parts of body, also Yoga poses with photo and video instruction. Over 100 workouts for any goal. You can also create your own custom workout. if you have some question you can find answer on Personal trainer it's really cool feature! Very good Fitness app! I'd recommend this app for anyone who wants to be in shape! Great work!
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marcfizzy · Aug 8, 2012

Reviewed as MarcFizzy on US AppStore

Get Fit With Fitness for iPad

Fitness for iPad is an amazing app. Now I feel more connected to the Olympic spirit because of it. Thank you~

This certainly the best fitness app on app store. The app looks extremely polished. And it has an unbelievably huge collection of videos and images. (It has 700+ exercises for men and women & 50 yoga poses with more than 700 video clips!)

With such a detailed database, surely you will get the correct form. I really like the clear voice instruction. That just makes my workout much easier. The videos are accurate. Besides, you can track a lot of useful information (distance, duration, weight, etc) about each of your session.

Moreover, the app has several other professional utilities, namely, Calorie Counter, Body Tracker & BMI.

The body tracker is amazing, it allows you to visualize your progress in the form of beautiful graphs, and it even allow you to take photos. With body tracker I am sure I will be motivated everyday!!!

The food tracker is equally important. It help you to monitor the food you eat. And that's important, isn't it? So that will help you to find what food will really help your workouts.

But I do has some suggestions:

1. iCloud, universal profile, and intergration

I appreciate the sign in with Facebook feature. But still, I hope an iCloud sync option will be available soon. I know this can be tricky. But it will not only make this this app a lot better, it will benefit all Viaden health apps. It's kind of frustrating that you have to set up profile everytime when you open a app from the same developer. I expect I can have a universal profile once and for all. For example, when I did workouts (following All-in Fitness), I can know how much calorie I burnt in Calorie Counter.

I think sync needs to be done automatically as well. It's more convenient for users. A universal profile can help better intertergrate all these health app together. Not only users who use more than one of these health app will be grateful for this, I think it will also help Viaden building its brand.

2. Better loading

This is a minor problem. Especially if you have downloaded the content and uploaded it to the app, it won't be problem even if the Wi-Fi connection is bad in the gym. But I notice when you are training and switching to the next exercise (when the rest is over), the app will start to download content like pictures immediately, and it slows things down. This loading circle won't be necessary if the app starts to download the picture for the next exercise when you are doing the previous exercise. I hope the app will handle downloading in a more efficient way.

And I think there might be a bug in this version. Now the loading can be very slow, much slower than I had expereinced in previous versions. It just say Please, wait...and it don't download anything. I have to download alll the content in Pref.

3. More intuitive UI

The app has a very polished UI. But sometimes it looks quite confusing. When you choose from the quick recipes, the users might not notice the categorization because it looks too dark. I think if add a icon for each categorization, it will be more intuitive for new users.

The new "Share your own programs" clutters with the photo in vertical mode. And the interface of "Food & Body Tracker" need to be more streamlined. And I hope the app can offer a demo tutorial for new users.

When you are in workout session, the interface does not arrange all the information very clearly. I do not think putting the Timer icon on the right side of the screen is not a good idea. (I didn't very quickly find it.) First the timer icon should be bigger. Because it is actually a very important feature. Second, I think the row of icons (audio, movie, muscle, timer) should be put beneath the workout instruction image like this. I think if you rearrange these elements, it will make more sense. Because, first, a user should carefully read all the detailed instruction. Then he looks at the image, and he will get the general idea what the workout is like. If he still doesn't know how to do it, he can watch the video, (which he will not do it every time). And for me, then I will listen to the audio instruction and do my exercises. And finally I will tap the timer (So please make it bigger!).

If a image zoom up, you have to tap within the image, so it can go back to normal size. I hope I can tap anywhere on the screen and it will go back to normal size. I believe this practice is more common in iOS development.

4. Retina support for the new iPad

This is urgent! If iPad 4 is out this September, no Retina support will be a big probelm for this app.

5. I hope I can play some workout music within the app.

6. Can you add some kind of social network with GPS tracking, like "find my gym buddy" in this app? So I can get know other guys who use this app around me and we can talk and exchange tips. I think that will be fun.

Anyway, this is a powerful and professional fitness app! Thank you for making such an amazing app!
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Rokrdude · Aug 9, 2012

Reviewed as Rokrdude2 on U.S. appstore

The Only Fitness app you will ever need
Fitness for iPad app includes the functionality of 4 different apps- Calorie counter, Body tracker, Pedometer and Fitness exercises/ Yoga.

The Calorie Counter keeps track of your daily goals by calculating the calories intake via its gigantic food library and categorizing it into carbohydrates, protein and fats and use this information for giving various suggestions for achieving your goals. Body tracker keeps track of your B.M.I while the pedometer which comes with custom music player tracks distance travelled and calories burnt and represents it in form of various charts and graphs. Finally the best thing I like about this app is availability of various workout modes combined with over hundreds of Fitness exercises and Yoga poses with audio and video instructions in this app.

Some of the features I would like to see as a future update are:-
1) As the app contains so many features, I would love to see some kind of demo tutorial showing how to use the app effectively for new users.
2) Also would love if the user could get the premium contents for free for a limited time so that could try and see the difference.
3) Retina update for the new iPad
4) Finally would love some pre made workout plans based on the time user has like 15,30,45 and 60 min so that user can quickly try the workouts

With so many features it is a must have app for every Fitness enthusiasts.
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wilflare · Aug 9, 2012

Submitted as wilflare.us on the US iTunes Store

Fitness for iPad is a simple but comprephensive app that provides you with the necessary tools (not physical ones) to get fit at your own time, at your own target. The UI is well thought out and the app is packed with a number of useful features to get you closer to your goal!

General Impressions
(1) User Interface - I really enjoy the UI. It is simple to navigate and go around. It could be more simplified and straightforward but more on that on suggestions
(2) Features - This is one of the best features of the app. The app includes photos and even videos on how to do certain exercises. There is also a magazine that you can choose to subscribe to for interesting articles on Health and Fitness. All in all, an excellent well-rounded application.
(3) Audio/Visual - As mentioned, the UI is simple and good. There's no audio element to this game but it would be nice to have some catch beats to exercise to!

Suggestions - Here are some ideas to make the app even better
(1) Personality/Trainer/Avatar - It is great to have a picture of a trainer that says "Don't hesitate to ask me if you have any questions". I hope the team can consider working on this or even expanding on this idea. Basically, the trainer should become a sort of AI personality that appears on every page. As the user finishes various regimes or reps, the trainer personality will say different words of encouragement or provide advice (perhaps even tease the user). The trainer personality can also tease the player for not using the app for a long period of time. The personality is set to behave the way a normal gym trainer would. This would really make Fitness for iPad a really awesome package of an app!

(2) Spelling/Grammer Errors - This is just one small blip. It is written "I read and understood" but the grammatically-correct version would be "I have read and understood"

(3) User Interface Improvements - I think the sidebar at the home page took up too much space. The small icons of Preferences, Premium and More can definitely be made smaller so that more space can be freed for other important data. A good element/widget to include is the Goal that the user has set for himself or herself. This would remind him or her of what he has been working for all along. The timer button should also be made more signinficant. It should be made to include the word "Start" and somewhere in the centre/focus of the screen so the user will be moreinclined to tap on it to start his exercise regime.

(4) Quote of the Day - Keeping fit is a lot about Inspiration as much as it is about Hardwork. I hope the team can consider having a "Quote of the Day" element within the app. The quotes can come from anywhere from famous people to even just good advices from ordinary people. This would really help encourage the user when he or she feels like giving up. The Quote of the Day can also be a Daily notification. For example, the notification pops up saying "Sweat is when your fats are crying!" then the buttons can read "Get FIT!" This would really be quite awesome!

(5) Simple/Advanced Modes - The current mode is great as it offers the user many different options to play around with. However, even the Quick Recipes can seem quite intimidating for the average person trying to get fit. It would be great if there can be a toggle to switch to a Simple mode. In simple mode, all customization options are hidden and based on the BMI (and health restrictions), the app would recommend workout regimes to the user. The user just has to pick the workout regime that best fits his or her schedule.

(6) GameCenter Integration - This will be an interesting way of including a bit of competition into the game. The scoreboards can include the Top Calorie Burner. Basically, based on the amount of consumed calories or the success of one's exercise regime, the user will raise up on the GameCenter Scoreboard. While I understand that this may be abused by some users, I think it's good encouragement for everyone to see they are doing (I do not think we need to worry much about those who cheat though.. they are ultimately just deciving themselves.)

(7) Integration with other sports-related apps - Being a Fitness app and tracker, it would be great if the team can consider collaborating or integrating with other specific fitness devices. For example, it would be great if there can be integration with the Nike running app to automatically update the results of the day's fitness regime. This would really help make Fitness for iPad a truly great Fitness App. (The current implementation requires the user to tap and time which may or may not work very well in the gym).

(8) Warm-up Regimes - I like how the app includes a reminder for the user to do warm-ups. However, I think a step further can be taken. The app could include a fixed warm-up regime (what to do and how to do) to provide a more comprephensive experience to the user!

All in all, this is one of the best apps put forth by Arawella!
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Viaden · Aug 9, 2012

Guys, for some important reasons we have to postpone the award of the prizes till tomorrow. Those who want to win still can enter!

Viaden · Aug 10, 2012

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