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Personal Trainer Review
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PTrainer, as it's rather snappily known, has been around in one form or another since 1999. This means the current package is the result of almost a decade’s worth of refinement and enhancement, to the extent that it clearly knows its job and its market very well. I say “almost” a decade because last proper upgrade was in 2006, so surely a new version must be in the pipeline. PTrainer is very much geared towards the unisex performance-driven user rather than the traditionally female dieter. It’s a bit butch at times, so if being told to “power blast your abs” or “pack mass into your biceps” makes you snigger then this may be a bit hardcore for you. If, however, ab-blasting is your thing, then PTrainer can track your progress in a hugely gratifying amount of detail. This is workout porn naval-gazing par excellance. Having said that, the dieting features are pretty good too, if not as extensive as those of some packages in our top ten that focus more on dieting. You can log your meals by picking from an extensive food database (which updates itself from the web) and the program will then work out for you exactly how many proteins, carbohydrates, fats and calories you have consumed. If you eat the same sorts of meals on a regular basis you can save even more time by cutting and pasting the details from an earlier entry. This makes it easy to work out exactly what you need to eat to achieve your goals, and also what you need to avoid. The progress reports and forecasting charts are also easy to follow. All in all, the whole thing is fairly simple to pick up and use, with a built-in help facility in case you do go astray. The user interface is smartly decked out in metallic blue and white, as befits the more masculine tone compared to many dieting packages. To PTrainer’s credit, it allows you to set up as many user profiles as you like, a facility some packages deny you in the hope that you will buy a more expensive version of the software or extra copies. This means that you can work out competitively with a gym buddy, diet supportively with a spouse or even keep track of your entire family’s health, if necessary. Another plus is that the license never expires so you don’t have to buy it again in six months time, although updated versions do periodically emerge which you may wish to upgrade to. You can either download PTrainer in a few minutes and get started right away or have the CD ROM sent in the mail (postage is free) if your connection speed is slow. Sadly, there is no free trial option, so you can’t try it out beforehand. Value for money is pretty good – a reasonable price for a reasonable range of dieting features, but you could probably shop around and do better if you took the time. The important thing is to work out which dieting features will be most useful to you and make sure the package you choose includes them before you buy, as there is quite a lot of variation between systems (free trials are particularly useful in this respect). For example, if you want a package that helps you to build recipes and plan your diet day by day, and week by week then PTrainer may not be the ideal package for you. Overall PTrainer is a decent package for the dieter who is also partial to power-blasting their abs. However, there are alternatives that offer a much better range of dieting features without compromising too much on the exercise side of things, some of which won’t cost you a whole lot more than PTrainer does either. Click the button below to check out Personal Trainer for yourself...
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