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This next generation software suite is designed for professionals in the health, fitness and wellness industry. It allows users to provide clients with the latest and most up-to-date knowledge base for nutrition and exercise prescription counselling. 

Used with the Cosmed Fitmate range of metabolic assessment devices, the software suite offers users the ultimate physiological testing service including VO2 max, resting metabolic rate, calorie burn rates, fat burn zone and comprehensive weight, lifestyle and exercise management.

Weight Management and Diet Plan

The Cosmed Fitmate Software Suite builds individual weight management programs based on the proven Calories In v Calories Out Energy Balance Equation, which states that weight loss will be achieved where calorie intake is lower than calorie expenditure. 

For inactive individuals, up to 95% of all calories are burned through the Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) and the remainder through Daily Physical Activity. This software estimates RMR automatically with the long established Harris-Benedict equation (for ultimate accuracy, measure RMR using Cosmed’s Fitmate range of metabolic assessment devices). 

Cosmed Fitmate Software Suite monitors body composition using skin-fold formulae or manually entered results from BIA/Dexa measurements. 

Finally, powerful Diet Management software allows a complete, detailed plan of calories intake to be programmed from the food database (included), based on the United States Daily Allowance (USDA) pyramid. Match standard templates to your client’s calorie requirements to provide fat, protein, carbohydrate, vitamins and minerals in standard, recommended quantities or create your own templates and plans based on individual nutritional strategies. Daily or weekly plans are provided in colorful, intuitive and interesting reports, including our ‘Daily Nutrition Facts’.

Lifestyle Management

Physical Activity is a hugely important, but often overlooked, component of successful weight management. While questionnaires and pedometers provide some means of assessment (included in the software), the scientific method of choice is to use proven accelerometer technology in the form of electronic physical activity monitoring. 

Fitmate Lifecorder is a small, clinically proven physical activity monitor that records activity intensity, duration, steps, distance, calorie consumption and many other activity parameters. Up to 60 days of memory can be downloaded via USB interface directly into Fitmate Software Suite and automatically integrated with RMR measurement for the ultimate calorie expenditure assessment. 

The Lifecorder can be programmed directly from the PC to set goals, to lock it from the user, to hide/show results and much more. A detailed and comprehensive report can be produced with results on a weekly basis, ideal to understand patient’s compliance to the program and to motivate patients to improve their lifestyle and daily physical activity.

* Full lifestyle assessment available only if used with Lifecorder Plus 

Fitness Assessment & Exercise Prescription

Cosmed Fitmate Software Suite offers complete fitness assessment and performance testing. Using the latest international gold standards from The American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM), the software includes a number of field tests for VO2 max scoring, muscular strength testing, muscular endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular risk analysis and Par-Q. It also provides illustrations, instructions and hints on how to perform these tests correctly. 

Motivate your client to enhanced performance and help them to understand the results. Once completed, the Fitness Assessment is followed by a powerful, user-defined, exercise prescription wizard. This tool provides a personal training plan – no matter how fit or unfit your client is – based on their availability, requirements and goals. 

The software offers a selection of cardiovascular, muscular and stretching exercises with illustrations and descriptions to assist the customers in easily remembering their exercise program and executing it with safe technique. See ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing & Prescription for further reading.

Database & Reporting

Cosmed Fitmate Software Suite stores unlimited patient data on your PC, provide professional reporting to your clients and help you to clearly monitor progress, retrieve old test results and to plan nutritional, lifestyle and training strategies. 

With its solid, scientific basis, the Comsed Fitmate Suite may also help you learn more about cardiovascular training principles and exercise physiology. With full details at your fingertips, you will find it easier to monitor, motivate and plan, for a healthier future for you, your clients and your business.

Key Features:

• Full features for data management and professional reporting
• Full Cardio-repiratory fitness assessment
• Strength & flexibiity fitness assessment
• Standard health measure assesment - bio-metrics
• Training zones calculated from VO2 and HR relationships
• Personalised exercise prescription based upon ACSM guidelines
• Weight management program based on energy balance equation
• Life style management with accelarator integration (optional)

Box Includes:

• Fitmate software (CD ROM)
• Use license via USB dongle
• Software manual

Technical Specification:

• Pentium PC or better
• Windows XP or better