GYM Counter is a new iPhone / iPod / iPad application (fully supporting the new iOS) aimed at encouraging health & care and sport activities for men and women as for example making sets of repetitions for abdominals without taking care about numbers of times and seconds elapsed (see http://www.unipg.it/carlo/apps/gymcounter for more information).
GYM Counter can be adopted by trainers as well as by whose wanting to perform exercises at home reading a book or watching TV: while dedicated counters (Sets, Repetitions and Seconds) go on, a voice will alert you when you have to be ready to start, when you have to start each set or repetition and/or when you have to stop as well. Therefore, you have not to worry about nothing else than setup properly your assistant at the beginning !
Accordingly, you have to fill in GYM Counter 5 auto-explicative fields as follows (see GYM Counter at work on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO4mgatxQH8):
1) Number of total Sets: a number > 0;
2) Rest between Sets (in seconds): a number = 0 when Number of total Sets = 1 (in fact having a rest doesn’t make sense in this case) or a number > 0 when Number of total Sets > 1;
3) Repetitions for each Set: a number > 0;
4) ‘Duration’ (in seconds): a number > 0;
5) ‘Interval’ (in seconds): a number = 0 when Repetitions for each Set = 1 (in fact having a pause doesn’t make sense in this case) or a number > 0 when Repetitions for each Set > 1.
Please note that in the Lite version both the Numbers of total Sets and of Repetitions for each Set are limited to 2.
Finally, you start GYM Counter by pressing the button ‘Start’. That’s all.
Usage Example:
Make 4 sets [Number of total Sets field will be 4] pausing for 30 seconds between each one [Rest between Sets field will be 30]. For each set, make 12 repetitions of abdominal [Repetitions for each Set field will be 12]. Each repetition of abdominal goes on for 20 seconds [Duration field will be 20] using an interval of 10 seconds [Interval field will be 10].
In this case a voice in GYM Counter will alert you before starting each set and each repetition, when you have to respectively start and stop each of them (in this case a ‘gong’ sound will denote the end of a set while the voice telling ‘stop’ will denote repetitions ending) and when the whole exercise has ended.