We begin training with VirtuaGym

Continue our series of articles on the special services and programs intended to replace the real coach you in your studies. With their help, you can easily reach the right training plan, Learn how to perform different exercises to train and celebrate progress. The last time we met with hardened adidas miCoachAnd today I want to introduce you to a pretty fresh, but budding VirtuaGym.

VirtuaGym It makes it possible to organize fitness classes, as well as keeping a diary about any other activity - from running and to play badminton. Like many other services in this category consists of two parts - a web site on which stores your statistics and configuration, and client software that performs the role of your personal coach.

Drafting training plan

For drawing up the training plan you can use as a web-based, and the program on your mobile device. If you decide to do it online, after registration, go to Training Plans. Here you can choose the most suitable for a complex exercise, which is represented here by a really big number. Not all of them are free, but also for free use is available is sufficient, especially for beginners.

For easy orientation in a variety of complex features a system of filters on the left side. With their help you will be able to select the exercises used gear, on purpose or level of complexity. Any training plan can be viewed in more detail, while showing all included in the set of exercises, number of sets and repetitions, training days, and so on.

But make up your own training plan here will not work - this feature is available only to holders of a paid account. However, we will not be offended for this service to the creators - free content is available in many times more than some competitors for money.

Calendar classes

Once you have chosen a suitable training plan (yes, it was not easy to do - plenty of offers creates difficulties selection), you need to add it to your calendar.

Here you see a grid of its past and future activities. When you click on the selected day on the right side shows the corresponding set of exercises. In this panel, you can note exercises as done, delete them or move to another day. In addition, when you click on the name of any exercise a pop-up panel with animated instructions detailed its performance, history of progress and many other details.

Mobile app

Currently available for download from the mobile client for the Android and iPhone platforms. For technical reasons I was able to experience the only option for Android, but I'm sure that their functionality is not much different.

In general, a mobile application VirtuaGym almost completely repeats site functionality, plus is equipped with a virtual coach. The process of training is as follows. After starting the application, you open your calendar and start sessions scheduled for today complex exercise. Exercising is accompanied by a trainer count and clear graphical instruction. We made the desired number of repetitions, a little rest, the following exercise. And so on until the full implementation of the complex.

Despite the fact that the program offers us a fairly rigid scheme of the exercises, we may at any time put a counter on pause, edit the actual number of repetitions, add their exercise in the complex. Thus there is some possibility to adjust the complex by itself.

Output

virtual trainer VirtuaGym It is one of the best apps in its class. Available in the free version with a head features enough not only for the beginners class, but also for advanced athletes. The program combines the presence of a rigid plan of action with the ability to flexibly adjust the plan to fit your needs, which is lacking in many competitors. However, the flexibility and the competitors will be discussed in the next article in this series.

VirtuaGym — site, Android, iPhone