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.
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.