Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm :: Education by Design Store

Editorial Review
Be gone, personal trainer--welcome, Vivonic Fitness Planner! Whether you're looking to lose a couple of pounds for the holidays or you're training for the Iron Man competition, Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm OS devices can assist you in reaching your personal fitness goals.

Installation is quick and easy. Initial setup calls for spending some time with the PC software, entering your current statistics and information regarding your goals. Vivonic Fitness Planner asks first for information regarding your height, weight, current fitness rate, current exercise program, and nutrition habits. Then it asks keys questions that are designed to determine your goals. Goals can range from muscle building to cardiac stamina to weight loss.

Once you've completed the initial setup series, you're ready to take your show on the road! By syncing your Palm OS device, all of this information is downloaded to your handheld. You can enter easily anything that you eat throughout the day and any calories that are spent on general living, and update your exercise regimen.

Customer Reviews

Vivonic love affair over

2006-01-31
I loved this software; I liked the workout circuits; the food track is great. So...then I got a Palm Tungsten E2 and kaput! Nothing. It just sits there. I would even spend money on an upgrade, but when I try to click through to Tech Support to find one...kaput! No Tech Support and no answers. It works on my desktop, which is even more frustrating. I think this is very well designed, too bad they stiffed us! MM

Glad to see this is no longer available!

2005-06-27
I only give this product 1 star because the site does not provide for 0 stars. I purchased this software a few years ago and have been (mostly) faithfully choronically my diet since around 2003. I had always assumed that everything was fine with this software (you know what happens when you assume). I would go back a few weeks to double check something, etc., but I never went back more than a couple of months. Imagine my shock when I found out that none of my entries from more than a few months remained! I'm VERY upset about this and I hope this company has done more than stopped selling this product, I hope they're out of business. For those of us to which weight and our diet is a very important thing, this is a nightmare. I started a weight loss program (on which I have become sucessful), but the earlier entries are now gone forever. If I may, Vivonic sucks!

liked it, until I got to know it

2004-01-31
I, like many other, loved this program when I first got it. Made food journaling easy (and I believe that is key to my weight loss of 60 lbs), it also helped me to learn about the nutritional content of foods(and led me to buy the book Food Bible, by Judith Wills, which I do recommend). But the company that put out the product has dropped the ball. I got a new Palm Zire and it is not compatible. I emailed the tech support and they told me that they were working on updating the software. They said it would be ready by December 2003. Since then I have not heard from them at all. I hope they get their act together, or I hope someone better comes out with a better product. Until then, I suggest buying the Food Bible and investing in a notebook, pen, and calculator.

down fall of vivonic company

2003-12-31
I purchase the vivonic software 3 years ago and love the product and would rate the software at a 5 star. the problem I have ran into is the suport of this software. When I purchased the software the teck suport was very helpfull when needed for the first year. After that they did away with their 1800 phone number and will very seldome if at all answer ther eMails. I also cant get a response back from them on this program working with a handheld PC. If you purchas this product and dont need teck suport you will love it but if there needed good luck.

New Palm? No Vivonic

2003-12-30
Like some of the other customers here, I've been using Vivonic (happily) for about two years but when I installed it on my new Tungsten C...nothing. "Tech Support" via the Vivonic site produces no response. It's a great program if you're using the Palm OS 4.0 or less, but not compatible with the newer models.

Useless With New Palm

2003-10-25
Be gone, personal trainer--welcome, Vivonic Fitness Planner! Whether you're looking to lose a couple of pounds for the holidays or you're training for the Iron Man competition, Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm OS devices can assist you in reaching your personal fitness goals.

While the Vivonic Fitness Planner for Palm might seem a bit extreme for everyday use, it can be invaluable to anyone who has specific and predetermined fitness goals. It might be a bit impractical for someone who's looking to maintain a current body weight or size; but, for someone who wants to make life changes, but can't afford a personal trainer to assist, this tool is without a doubt the perfect choice. --Kendra Hayden

Is Vivonic defunct? 2003-04-17
I used this software with my Handspring Visor and liked it. I recently upgraded to a Palm Tungsten T and it turns out the software won't work on Palm OS 5.0. So I tried to get ahold of Vivonic...and they are gone. As if they never existed. The web site is shut down, the doors and windows are boarded up and nobody is home without so much as a press release. Do not purchase this software if you are running Palm OS 5.0 or if you care about future support.

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT! There is NO tech support! 2003-02-01
I purchased this product and I have yet to get it to sync properly with my Palm. I am knowledgeable with computers and have had several "gurus" look at it with no help. Whenever I sync with my Palm, all customer meals are deleted. I have emailed tech support - receiving a response 2 weeks later with the exact same software that I installed. Absolutely NO help. They are no longer a part of Intel (sold 2 years ago) and are still marketing under Intel w/no phone number or address listed (all www registration, phone #, and addresses point to Intel). I have contacted Intel and they are going after Vivonic demanding a cease and desist from them to remove Intel from the packaging and registration. The program - if it worked would be great. But frankly having no tech support doesn't make this software worth buying.

This Palm Fitness Planner is Super 2002-09-12
I really love this Fitness planner. I like to update it during the day and synch on my computer, but usually end up doing several days at once. It helps keep me motivated to excercise. I created many meals so that I can just add a meal with one click.

Very Helpful Program 2002-07-04
I also agree with the shortcomings mentioned in the above reviews but I do find this program well worth buying! I have had several other 'diet trackers' and none came close to keeping me in check as this one. It is well written but can use some tweaking to be perfect. It does keep me very motivated and informed. I too am very surprised how fast sugar adds up. I have learned a lot about nutrition just by using this program. I like the computer use of this more than on the palm but that is more a person preference. It is very handy to be able to take the info with me. I double check food before I eat it to see how it will fit in my program. I wish it would graph body weight/fat etc but there is a place on your weekly Journaling that you can refer to, just not a graph. It's by far the best program out there at this point and it's short comings are small in comparison to the over all help that this program is. Buy it! I do highly recommend it.