Tracknburn: Track Consumption, Burn Energy, And Much More
January 14, 2011
Those of us who need it are very much aware of our health situation, even if it's something we don't bring up in discussion whenever possible. Healthy U Technologies offers Tracknburn, an app thoroughly designed to help track the four main categories of weight loss and general fitness.
When you first launch Tracknburn, just like most other fitness apps, you'll need to create a personal profile. Your profile includes your current weight, desired weight, how much you'd like ot lose per week (if any), height, gender, typical exercise, the three main nutrition elements you wish to mainly observe, name, email, and a password.
After creating your account, and on each app launch, your daily statistics are displayed for the four main categories: food and beverage consumption, exercise, water consumption, and current weight. The primary sections for Tracknburn, which you navigate at the bottom, include the "Home" screen, settings, logs, and a "more" section.
Let's begin with the "Track", or food consumption tracking. The app tracks calories, fat, sodium, sugar, and much more. You can choose from basic food combinations, specify a full meal worth of food items, choose from restaurant offerings, and quickly access recent and favorite foods for even quicker input.
At the top, you'll get calculations for how much you've consumed to how much you've 'burned' and find the remaining calories you'd be allowed to eat the remainder of the day. Want to do the super calories, carb, etc counting? Tap on the flame icon that says "Tap here for more info" That additional information is a standard "nutrition facts" breakdown of all the food you racked up thus far that day.
The "Burn", or exercise section, includes categories for sports, strength training, aerobics, and custom entry. Aerobics includes a quite vast range of activities, from actual aerobics to bathing your pet to jogging to "jump rope" to washing your car. Strength training and sports include their own wide range of activities.
There are some well done apps out there, but I can't describe to you how incredibly amazed I am at the database of food and the number of energy burning activities this app contains. Over 620 activities and I couldn't even imagine how many food products. Search Subway, McDonald's, Papa Johns, and I'd swear that the entire menu is there. I don't know how they're acquiring it but it's extremely impressive to me.
The water drop icon is your water consumption. As far as a general "rule of thumb," a human being is suppose to consume about eight bottles of water per day. Our bodies require H2O for many, many things, and it certainly is more than important enough for its own category. To input the number of bottles consumed that day, tap the water drop icon, then tap to fill the appropriate number of bottles; the range goes from left to right.
I'll skip over describing the Settings section and move onto the Logs area. In here, you can email your logs to trainers, physicians, or just friends who are looking to help motivate you. The other task you can perform in this area includes managing your "Track" and "Burn" input. Say you really didn't do that many push-ups or you actual didn't eat that many donuts, you can go and change the value or completely delete it; which also includes the change immediately re-calculated on the Home screen.
In the "More" section, you can ask a support question, request a manual update of the food database, request a new password, and even back up your logs to their secure (Amazon hosted) servers for $.99 per year.
As I said before, there are a number of very impressive weight loss, food tracking, and fitness apps in the App Store. Some of those have unique and useful approaches. Although, I'd have to say that Tracknburn is a definite champion when it comes to the strictly mathematical food tracking and fitness category. If Healthy U Technologies could find a way to pair an iDevice with a Wii Fit Balance Board for current weight input, I think we'd be completely set.
Tracknburn is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 3.2 or later. Get your copy in the App Store now for $3.99.
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When you first launch Tracknburn, just like most other fitness apps, you'll need to create a personal profile. Your profile includes your current weight, desired weight, how much you'd like ot lose per week (if any), height, gender, typical exercise, the three main nutrition elements you wish to mainly observe, name, email, and a password.
After creating your account, and on each app launch, your daily statistics are displayed for the four main categories: food and beverage consumption, exercise, water consumption, and current weight. The primary sections for Tracknburn, which you navigate at the bottom, include the "Home" screen, settings, logs, and a "more" section.
Let's begin with the "Track", or food consumption tracking. The app tracks calories, fat, sodium, sugar, and much more. You can choose from basic food combinations, specify a full meal worth of food items, choose from restaurant offerings, and quickly access recent and favorite foods for even quicker input.
At the top, you'll get calculations for how much you've consumed to how much you've 'burned' and find the remaining calories you'd be allowed to eat the remainder of the day. Want to do the super calories, carb, etc counting? Tap on the flame icon that says "Tap here for more info" That additional information is a standard "nutrition facts" breakdown of all the food you racked up thus far that day.
The "Burn", or exercise section, includes categories for sports, strength training, aerobics, and custom entry. Aerobics includes a quite vast range of activities, from actual aerobics to bathing your pet to jogging to "jump rope" to washing your car. Strength training and sports include their own wide range of activities.
There are some well done apps out there, but I can't describe to you how incredibly amazed I am at the database of food and the number of energy burning activities this app contains. Over 620 activities and I couldn't even imagine how many food products. Search Subway, McDonald's, Papa Johns, and I'd swear that the entire menu is there. I don't know how they're acquiring it but it's extremely impressive to me.
The water drop icon is your water consumption. As far as a general "rule of thumb," a human being is suppose to consume about eight bottles of water per day. Our bodies require H2O for many, many things, and it certainly is more than important enough for its own category. To input the number of bottles consumed that day, tap the water drop icon, then tap to fill the appropriate number of bottles; the range goes from left to right.
I'll skip over describing the Settings section and move onto the Logs area. In here, you can email your logs to trainers, physicians, or just friends who are looking to help motivate you. The other task you can perform in this area includes managing your "Track" and "Burn" input. Say you really didn't do that many push-ups or you actual didn't eat that many donuts, you can go and change the value or completely delete it; which also includes the change immediately re-calculated on the Home screen.
In the "More" section, you can ask a support question, request a manual update of the food database, request a new password, and even back up your logs to their secure (Amazon hosted) servers for $.99 per year.
As I said before, there are a number of very impressive weight loss, food tracking, and fitness apps in the App Store. Some of those have unique and useful approaches. Although, I'd have to say that Tracknburn is a definite champion when it comes to the strictly mathematical food tracking and fitness category. If Healthy U Technologies could find a way to pair an iDevice with a Wii Fit Balance Board for current weight input, I think we'd be completely set.
Tracknburn is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 3.2 or later. Get your copy in the App Store now for $3.99.
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