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Cardio

A big part of Crosstrainer is the ability to enter and track your Cardio fitness, whether specific training exercise, sports, DVD workouts or even exercise that happens working around your house.

Cardiovascular training is only second to your diet in terms of your health and fitness. Such an important and often neglected part of our daily lives should be developed through activities and fitness choices that can be repeated throughout the year. Once you're in the habit, the process becomes and enjoyable and rewarding part of your daily life.

Crosstrainer has a large list of common training, sports and exercise activities.   Pick an exercise, schedule it to your calendar.   Track and rate your performance.  How many Calories did you burn?   Crosstrainer will tell you.   Create goals for Distance, Time, Pace and Speed.   Compare these goals with your actual performance.  Add your own custom fields to track what you want.   See Mileage Totals for each exercise or overall.   Enter and track heart rate and time spent in zones.   View your performance in the Progress module and compare your performance with your nutrition and wellness information.  

Crosstrainer makes it easy to create and manage your own Training Plans using the built in weekly progression module.   You can also schedule your cardio to multiple days with the build in Scheduler.   The Crosstrainer Summary tab, will show you how your cardio is impacting your daily caloric requirement and current weight.