What is DailyTrain ?
DailyTrain is primarily a tool for planning and executing your workouts.
Since training always has a planning phase that is usually carried out by a coach, instructor, personal trainer, or even by athletes themselves, DailyTrain brought this process to the Internet, allowing for improved interactivity between athletes and those responsible for their training.
Based on this concept, we created an option on the system menu called User,
which is shown below:
Now we will briefly explain each option on the User menu
My Data
The My Data menu allows users to change their previously registered information,
such as address, coaches, types of training, preferences, and so on.
Targets
The purpose of Targets is to allow users to define their personal targets/goals
and to easily detail their training once they are executing it by selecting the
Target. The Targets are not required by the system, but by using them we can
analyze and better understand workouts, phases, and results. A good example is
if a user had the following two Targets:
1 - Reduction in body fat
2 - The New York Marathon
In this way, the user can link a Target to each workout, making it easy in the
future to view which workouts should be followed to reach a certain Target and
whether or not they are bringing the desired results. The athlete thus builds
on success and avoids repeating mistakes.
Exercises and Weight Training
Charts
As you have probably observed, it is becoming more and more common for athletes
of various sports to include weight training in their routines in order to
obtain strength, muscle mass, endurance, faster recovery and injury prevention.
For this reason, DailyTrain offers the options Exercises and Weight Training Charts to
help you in weight training workouts.
To understand how it works, imagine a weight-training chart at your gym. What
first comes to mind is a chart with your name and a list of exercises
specifying sets, repetitions, weight, and sometimes the rest period between
sets. The purpose of the Weight Training Charts is the same as that of your
gym’s chart; likewise, the purpose of the Exercises option is the same as the
purpose of recording your exercises on your gym’s chart.
Getting back to your chart at the gym, it is common to see people doing a base
fitness period for a few weeks and then move into a strength-building period.
In this case, we either have to create new charts, or we erase some exercises,
add others, and change the number of sets and repetitions and the weight. Using
DailyTrain, you can create a chart for each period and type of training and add the
specific exercises for each chart. Thus, even if you are in a strength-building
period, you can look up your exercises record and see which exercises you used
for your base training, analyze if it is worthwhile maintaining this base
period the next time around, or even change it based on the experience you’ve
had.
Below is the DailyTrain screen for Exercises followed by Weight Training Charts:
Creating a weight-training chart for endurance and adding previously created
exercises to it.
Creating a weight-training chart for strength building.
Training Charts/Training Plain
I personally consider training charts an essential item to get the most out of
your workouts. They allow you to develop a training plan and should be followed
for a certain period as a guide to doing your workouts.
Professionals who plan and monitor their athletes using DailyTrain can link their
athletes to each chart, allowing charts to be created for each group of
athletes (beginners, advanced, runners, triathletes, etc.). After linking their
athletes, they can view the charts using the option “View Charts,” allowing
them to access their workouts in real time, thus speeding up the communication
process.
Creating the charts involves two steps:
1 - Creating the chart with the name, description, and period, and linking
athletes if you are a coach.
2 - Creating workouts for each day on the chart.
To create a workout for a specific day, just click on the magnifying glass.
2.1 - On the weekly calendar that shows all the days on the chart, there are
three options for creating workouts for each day: G, F, and A. The main purpose
of these options is to allow you to choose a greater or lesser degree of
detail. Remember that the more detailed your workout, the better the results of
the graphs and reports generated by the system will be.
2.1.1 - What each option means:
G - Used to link a weight-training chart to your exercises for that day. It also
allows you to add a comment or note about your workout.
F - This option is used to create a descriptive workout for the selected
activity and day. Its strength lies in its simplicity, allowing for complex
workouts to be described and viewed quickly. However, its simplicity is also
its weak point, because since it lacks specific fields for each workout item,
such as values, distances, times, and so on, it cannot be used for calculations
to generate reports and graphs about your training.
In the example below, we observe that the athlete should run for 30 minutes, but
since the value—in this case time—is written together with the words (which is
why the field is called “descriptive”), the system cannot, for instance, sum
this time to the total time for running workouts for the week. To clarify this
point, register the same workout using this option and option A.
A - Other than option G, which is the most detailed for weight training, this
option is the best because it allows for great detail in specifying workouts
and, consequently, for better monitoring.
As you can see from the examples below, this level of detail avoids the problem
mentioned for option F regarding time for a running workout.
Specific fields will become available according to the training activity
selected.
Example: when Swimming was chosen, extra fields were exhibited, which are
circled in red below.
In the above figure, we can see that an exercise involving 3 sets of 400 meters,
with a 50-meter rest period between sets is being created. The fields circled
in red are for choosing the stroke and at what pace the distance should be
swum, although these fields are not required. As shown in the figure below, you
can tell the system that the next item that you will create provides detail
about the previous item (by clicking on the  of
the item that you want to detail).
Suppose that for each 400m, you want to do 100m of butterfly stroke focusing on
your arms and 100m of butterfly stroke focusing on your legs. You must tell the
system that you will detail the item (described above) and create an item for
each 100m with their specific characteristics as described below.
After creating all of the training items for the day, we can see that we will
have the following information as shown in the figure below:
400m freestyle for an unspecified time
3 x 400m (100m leg butterfly at 2’ / 100m arm butterfly at 1’20) totaling 6’40”
at 146 bpm
200m freestyle for an unspecified time
After including all of your workouts for a specific period, your weekly calendar
will look something like the figure below.
Reports
To view your training, you can access the option Workouts in the Reports menu as
shown in the figure below.
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