Curtis Matthews

This is a cool way of tracking your workout progress. Handy logs fitness app on the Blackberry app world. The application is free and you can sync it with there website allowing you to track your progress online and from your Blackberry.

Today was the first day I tried it out. I entered each set of each exercise after the set with the reps, weight used and a description of the exercise equipment used.

Below is a sample of what I get from Handy Logs. I copied this information using the Bolt browser and pasted the info into the Wordpress application on my Blackberry.

New entry First Previous 8 to 22 of 22 Date & Time Exercise Sets Reps Weight (lb) 04-23-10 07.06 Tricep Pressdown 3 11 110.00 Detail 04-23-10 07.03 Arm Curl 3 11 130.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.54 Incline Press 3 11 160.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.52 Incline Press 2 11 140.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.51 Incline Press 1 11 120.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.49 Incline Press 5 7 135.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.46 Incline Press 4 7 120.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.43 Incline Press 3 7 95.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.42 Incline Press 2 7 70.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.38 Chest Press 3 10 150.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.34 Chest Press 1 11 110.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.34 Chest Press 2 11 130.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.29 Chest Press 4 7 140.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.28 Chest Press 3 7 115.00 Detail 04-23-10 06.26 Chest Press 2 7 70.00 Detail  

Since February 14th 2010 I have tried to figure out the correct way to track a diet and workout on a Blog. I wanted to put all my workouts and food intake on this Blog eaisly with my Blackberry Bold 9700 and the WordPress application.

I started to make 2 pages a day for the day’s food intake and workouts. It was not hard to do these post but somthing did not make sense with the format.

While I continued to make two pages for each day I saw on the Blog it placed the pages on the bottom of the Blog under the headings (my daily eating habits) or (my daily workouts). I did not want that formating, logging one after another on the bottom like that would make a very long footer with days of workouts and eating habits. What I wanted was every days diet and workout to be listed only under the corresponding pages only with the heading, (my daily eating habits) or (my daily workouts. I want that you have to click on the page About and on that page you see the links to my daily diet and workouts.

My web guy said each daily log should be one page for each category and just add to that page the daily logs. So yesterday I started to copy the daily pages into their categories and it did look a lot better but I am want to try some other things.

One of the main things I do not like is when I want to add to the post it becomes very difficult to do from my Blackberry Bold 9700 now using the WordPress application. I have to scroll way to much to add more daily deatails because of the amount of preivous logs and the pictures html. I need a easy way to add the daily logs of workout and diet on the Blackberry.

Until I can figure out a better way to do my posts I will not continue to do my daily logs with the WordPress application on my Blackberry Bold 9700. I have done the last 2 weeks in February and edit it on one page like my web guy told me too.

The last two days I switch my at&t phone to a Blackberry 8900 from the Apple iPhone. I was bored and I am still waiting for Blackberry to send me my free Blackberry 9700.

What I did after downloading Blackberry app world was download Pandora first, my favorite application for any device. Next I downloaded Bolt mobile web browser and the I looked for a Blogging application. My emails came in perfectly after I changed the device in the Blackberry web client.

The first night I took the Blackberry 8900 to the gym, I wanted to listen to Pandora while I worked out, like I always did with my Blackberry Bold 9000. The Blackberry 9000 is 3G and the Blackberry 8900 is only EDGE and Pandora on a 8900 sucks. The EDGE network is way to slow for Pandora. I use in my house with wifi and that works a lot better but the Pandora application sticks while on the EDGE network to unacceptable waiting times. I have gone 5 or more minutes waiting time and 30 seconds to a minute between songs becomes the norm.

The Bolt browser had a new software update 1.6 that released recently and I wanted to try it on the 8900. The first improvement that I appreciated the most was the password saving option. The browser worked perfectly and I was working on at&ts EDGE network not the 3G that I am used too on the Bold.
I did use the 8900 without a sim card so I could test Pandora and Bolt exclusively on wifi. They both worked perfectly with no difficulty.

This draft is a mishmosh of different days of just editing this post on the fly from the Blackberry 8900 with the Bolt Browser. This last paragraph is being done with the Apple iPhone 3G and the Wordpress application.

Today I will set up a few Wordpress templates for my other domains. I have been worried about transferring all the DNS over to Hostgator in fear of losing emails and content on mobilewiseguy.com. I think I will set a couple of forwarding for few of the domains and a template for ltecellphones.info. I know I need to spend some time everyday working on my goals, its definitely not easy for me, especially that I do most of my work from my Blackberry. I do not want to use the computers at work for my personal stuff. I have my laptop that I carry with me always but it so much easier to do quick edits or post from my Blackberry. I also kill time when doing cardio at the gym writing posts to my Blogs from my Blackberry. I guess that’s why they call me the Mobile Wise Guy and not the Computer Guy.