Adding Exercise to the Diary

If you don't want to use JXCirrus CalCount to record exercise, just skip to the next page: Adding Recipes

Basic Exercise

We will try another example here. Lets imagine that you went for a half-hour jog. It is simple to add this:

  1. Make sure you are on the diary page (Diary).
  2. Press Add next to the Exercise heading.
  3. Now you will see a list of exercises: Select "Jogging (7-8 kmh).
  4. A dialog will open with two fields: Exercise and Time.   Leave Exercise at 0 (JXCirrus CalCount will calculate that for you), and enter the time you spent (30 minutes will be "0:30").

Reducing your Calories

Now that you have added a 1/2 hour jog, you will see that your calories for the day have gone down. All of the food you eat gets added to your calories for the day, but all of the exercise you have done gets subtracted.

Near the top of the diary table, there are 2 rows with "Minimum" and "Maximum". Lets imagine you have gone over the maximum value for calories for the day (i.e. you ate too much), you could make sure you do enough exercise to get the total back down into the right range.

Setting up a standard run

Lets imagine that you have a couple of standard runs that you do, and you want to also record your times for these.

(If you don't want to do this, feel free to skip to Adding Recipes).

Add Time and Distance Targets

The first thing you need to do is set up JXCirrus CalCount to record time and distance.

  1. Press Tools -> Targets (you can now see the Target List dialog).
  2. Press Add (you should now see the Target Edit dialog).
  3. In the Value field, select Distance.
  4. In the Units field, select km. Un-tick the "Computer calculate daily amount" box.
  5. Select "Applies to Exercise Only" in the "Applies To" field.
  6. Enter "Jogging" in the Categories field. This means that Distance will only be recoded for exercises in the "Jogging" group.
  7. Press OK - You should be back in the Target List.

That series of steps just added Time and Distance as targets. These will only be recorded againt exercises in the Jogging group.

Press Close on the target list.

You should be back on the diary page - You should also see that new columns have been added for Distance and Time.

Add your run to the exercise list

Now, switch over to the tab labeled "My Exercise" (see My Exercise for more on this).

We can now add a jogging route to the list.

  1. Press the Edit menu, then Add. You should now be able to see the Exercise Edit dialog (which is actually the same as the Food Edit dialog).
  2. Lets say the new route is called the Bay Run - Type in "Bay Run" into the name.
  3. Type Jogging into the category. Remember in the targets dialog, we selected that Time and Distance would only be added to Jogging...
  4. In the table you can fill in your usual calories, distance and time.
  5. In the "Bay Run" row, type 600 for the calories.
  6. In the "Bay Run" row, type 9 for the distance (that is km).
  7. In the "Bay Run" row, type 1:00 for the time.
  8. In the Edit Values combo box, select "Edit Values Each Time" - This means that each time you add this to the diary, the computer will ask you for calories, distance and time.
  9. Press OK. You should now be able to see "Bay Run" in a new Jogging category in the list.

Now give it a try... Go to the Diary tab, then press "Add" against exercise. Select the Bay Run. You should now be prompted to fill in all the numbers for your run.

You can add as many standard runs as you like.

Next: Adding Recipes