Ascendo Fitness™ from Ascendo - Orange/Nokia Java Challenge consumer application theme winner

Overview Despite a growing number of health products, one simple fact remains. To stay fit you need to manage your diet and exercise.  Ascendo Fitness™ allows you to take control of your health by helping you track the calories in the foods you eat and the calories you burn while exercising.  Ascendo Fitness™ also provides many tools and assistants to help you set and achieve your goals. Benefits  Ascendo Fitness™ gives you the tools to succeed.  You set goals that make sense for your special situation and Ascendo Fitness helps you track your progress.  Ascendo Fitness™ is mobile just like you are.  Because you take it with you everywhere you go, you can track your diet and activity when it happens, where it happens.  Ascendo Fitness™ is complementary to exiting health products and plans.  You can choose the strategy that best fits you and use Ascendo Fitness™ to achieve your objectives.

Ascendo Fitness™ provides a comprehensive set of data and tools:

 a nutrition database contains the most common foods and beverages
 an activity database contains  the most frequent exercises
 create and edit daily entries for Nutrition and Activities that allow you to keep track of calorie intake and calories being burned
 add, edit & delete nutrition and activity types
 delete entries by date for easier maintenance
 track weight over time and record notes.

It provides intuitive graphics to track your progress:

Progress is displayed in a variety of graphs, a format which makes progress easy to track:

 display graph comparing journal entries for weight to a user defined goal
 display graph comparing daily Calorie Intake to a user defined objective
 display graph comparing daily Calories Burned to a user defined objective
 move graphs backward and forward by date using arrow keys, improved performance.

It also has personalised fitness calculators:

The various fitness calculators can be personalised and used to measure improvements. They calculate:

 ideal weight & healthy weight range based on user's height and gender
 Body Mass Index, or BMI, based on user's height and weight
 Maximum Heart Rate based on age
 Basal Metabolism Ratio, or BMR, based on height, weight and gender.

More information about Ascendo is available here

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