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BuildUp (TM) Athletic Performance Analysis Software Version 1.0 Daly Software 28 Pembroke Terrace Oak Grove, KY 42262 Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Daly Software. The software described in this manual is furnished under a li- cense agreement. If someone other than Daly software charges you for this software, please contact Daly Software immediately. The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the agreement which are as follows: 1. The software is owned by Daly Software and is not free software or public domain software. If you use this software on a regular basis, beyond 30 days from when you acquired it, you are expected to pay the registration fee. 2. You have the right to transfer the software for the purposes of letting others use it on a trial basis. 3. You may not modify this software in any way. 4. You may not disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer this software. 5. You may not redistribute this software for profit, only for the cost of reproduction and media. 6. BBS operators may freely download this software. Copyright(C) 1990-1991 Daly Software All rights reserved. Daly Software is a trademark of Daly Software. BuildUp is a trademark of Daly Software IBM is a trademark International Business Machines INTRODUCTION Thank You for trying BuildUp Athletic Performance Analysis Software from Daly Software. This software is designed to help you improve your athletic performance. It helps you evaluate the quantitative aspects of your activity. It does this by keeping records of what you have done, letting you set goals, and pro- viding graphs of your records and goals. It lets you see trends in your performance so you can make decisions on how to change your training. It takes the numbers you provide and lets you see them in a way that is easier for you to analyze. For a long time people have kept records of their accomp- lishments. For the modern athlete this usually takes the form of a training log. To take advantage of this training log, you have to look at the numbers and try to make sense of them. Sometimes the numbers do not make much sense. The goal of this software is to help you keep track of the numbers and help you understand them. This way, you take advantage of the data that you have been keeping. For users that are familiar with computers and software this program will take about 30 minutes to learn how to use. For users who are less familiar with computers it will take about 45 minutes . It is designed for easy, quick, and accurate data entry and analysis. Once you have the software set up for your exercise program, it will take just minutes per session to enter your data, and even less time to analyze it. If you have any comments or questions about this software, please fill out the enclosed comment sheet and put it in the mail. Your comments will be greatly appreciated. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This software requires an IBM PC or compatible to run. You should have at least 256K of RAM, a flop- py or hard disk drive, and CGA, EGA, or VGA graphics capability. A math coprocessor can help speed up some graphics operations, but is not required. The more disk space you have, the more data you can store. If you will be working with large amounts of data, a hard disk is recommended. SOFTWARE CAPABILITIES This software will manage the performance data and goals for 50 people with up to 46 exercises or events each. It can record any combination of sets, repetitions, metric or standard weight, time, metric or standard distance, and score. The following table shows the allowable ranges for each type of data. sets..............0-99 reps..............0-9999 metric weight.....+/- 9999 kilos, 999 gr. standard weight...+/- 9999 lb., 15 oz. time..............+/- 999 days, 23 hr., 59 min., 59.999 sec. metric distance...+/- 999 km, 999 m, 99 cm, 9 mm standard distance.+/- 999 miles, 5279 ft., 11 and 98/99 in. score.............+/- 9999 1 WARNINGS: These are some things you should NOT do. Do not use an editor or word processing program on any of the files that this program produces. These files include: 1) USERNAM 2) Any file that begins with FORM followed by 2 numbers 3) Any files in directories that begin with DIR follow- ed by 2 numbers 4) Any file beginning with E and followed by 4 numbers 5) Any file beginning with G and followed by 4 numbers Failure to obey these warnings can produce unpredictable results! INSTALLATION Before you install this software, you should make a backup copy. To do this, first format a blank diskette. Then copy the programs from the program disk to the disk you just formatted. If you formatted a 360K 5 1/4" disk you can copy it with a:DISKCOPY A: B: If you used a different size disk or disk with a different capa- city you can make your copy with a:XCOPY A:*.* B:*.* /S If the drive you are copying to is different than B:, type that letter instead of B:. Floppy Disk Systems To install this software on a floppy disk, follow the in- structions above for making a backup copy. This second copy will be your working copy. Hard Disk Systems To install this software on a hard disk, you must first make a directory for the software. For instance, if you want to in- stall it on drive C:, go to drive C: and type MD [name] where [name] is the name you want for the directory with this software in it. It is highly advisable to put this program in a subdirectory like the one you just made, because it tends to produce a lot of files. The next step is to copy the software. To do this, put the program disk in drive A:, and type XCOPY A:*.* C:\[name]/s/v This will copy the software from A: to whichever directory on drive C: you wish it to go. If you want to put it on a drive other than C:, substitute that drive letter for C: in the preced- ing instructions. 2 STARTING THE PROGRAM To start up the program, you must first change to the direc- tory that the program is in. It is important that you do this so that the program knows where to look for certain files that it needs. For example, if you installed the program on drive C: in directory "EXERCISE", you must change to drive C:, then type "CD EXERCISE" to get into the right directory. Once you are there you type "BU" to start the program These are the instructions for using the program. In this section we will start the program, add a user to the system, add exercises, enter data, enter goals, display the data and goals, edit the data and goals. Following the above directions, start the program. This is the main program screen. From here you execute the the functions of the program. The box on the left of your screen shows the current date. If your system does not have an internal clock and you did not set the date when you started your machine, the date will be wrong. If you have the wrong date, you should restart you machine and enter the correct date! The box on the right of your screen is the name of the cur- rent user. Right now there is no current user. Down the center of the screen is the list of functions. To the left of the list are the function keys that correspond to each function. To acti- vate a function you press the function key. To try this out, push key "F1". This is the main program screen with a list of the users. Right now there is only one user named "test". Remember that this program tracks up to 50 users with 46 exercises each. A user can be one person, but if that person requires more than 46 exercises, he can be several users, for instance "joe", "joe1", etc. You can have users for different workouts. Also keep in mind that you can use the measurements for more than just exer- cises. You can also use them to record bodyweight, chest size or whatever you want. Let's add a new user now. Press key "F2". Now type "arnold". Now press the "Enter" key. Oops! My wishful thinking has got the best of me again! Press key "F3" to bring me back to reality! DATA ENTRY Type "arnold" again and press the "Enter" key, and my illusions will be shattered forever! When you delete a user, all of his exercises are deleted. As a matter of fact, all file operations are handled by the program. You never have to worry about manag- ing your data, it is all taken care of for you! Now we want to move on to the functions for actual exercise data entry. The first thing that we have to do is select a cur- rent user. This is done in two ways. The first way is to use the Select Current User function. You only have to use this function when you already have a current user and you want to change it. The other way applies to the current situation, where there is no current user. Press the "F5" key ant type "test". You have activated the Enter Data For Current User function, and since you have no current user, the program asks you for one. 3 Now press the "Enter" key. Now we are ready to add an exercise to the list of exercises for the user "test". Notice the list of instructions to the right of the screen. Also notice the information in the lower right hand corner. This information lets you know at all times who you are entering data for, so that you do not inadvertently enter data for the wrong person! To add an exercise to the list, press "F2",then type "pushups". Now press "Enter". You have just named the exercise "pushups", and you will be asked some questions about what data you want to record for the exercise. These questions set up the data input functions that will follow later. The program will automatically know which questions to ask you when you are entering data, and will ask you the same ones every time you enter data for a particular exercise. Do you want to measure the exercise in sets? If you will always be doing just one set of an exercise, press "N" or "Enter" to tell the program that you never want to measure sets. However, if you desire to record the sets, press "y" and then press "Enter". For the purposes of this lesson, press "y" then press "Enter". Like before, if you want to measure the reps, push "y", and if not, press "n". For this lesson we will push "y" and then "Enter". This screen asks you about measuring weight. You can press "n", "1" or "2". If choose to measure weight, you have the op- tion of standard or metric measurement. You can also set up an exercise to measure your bodyweight using this. For this lesson, press "n" and then "Enter". Keep in mind that you are not allowed to overload a measure- ment. By this I mean you cannot have more than 15 ounces. If you have 16 ounces you have a pound. If you exceed the number of units for which a unit of the next higher level consists, you will get a warning when you try to enter data. For example, if you have 18 ounces to record, you must enter it as 1 pound and 2 ounces. The same rules apply for the time and distance measure- ments that follow. This question is less complicated than it looks. If you do not want to measure time, simply press "n", otherwise you must enter a number for the lower bound of the exercise. What this means is that you enter the number that corresponds to the smal- lest unit you want to measure. For example, if you want to mea- sure in the thousandths of seconds, you would press "1". On the other hand, if you only needed to be accurate to the tenth of a second, you would press "3". The next thing you must choose is the upper bound. For example, if you are a runner and you want to measure your marathon times, you would press "3", unless it would take you more than 24 hours, in which case you would press "4" for days! Also, your upper bound cannot be smaller than your lower bound. For example, you cannot have a lower bound of hours and an upper bound of seconds. You can have upper and lower bounds that are the same. For this lesson press "n" then press "Enter". This screen asks you if you want to measure distance. If you do, press "1" or "2" for metric and standard, respectively. If you do not wish to measure distance, press "n". For this 4 lesson, press "n" then press "Enter". This screen asks you if you want to measure score. You can use this to measure score or any other thing you can think of to measure with numbers that has not already been covered. It is an "all purpose" type of measurement. For this lesson press "n" then "Enter". You are now done getting set up for the exercise named "pushups" for the user named "test". Now that we are finished configuring our exercise for this lesson, we will learn how to enter exercise data and goals. Push "F3". The first exercise on the screen should be highlighted. Use the "down" arrow key on your keyboard to move the highlight to the next exercise, which will be pushups. Now press the "En- ter" key. This screen shows you the current exercise, which is push- ups, and the current date. It also gives you some instructions. Many of the screens in this program give you some simple instruc- tions. The instructions for this screen show you how to quit this function (press the Escape key). This screen shows the current date, which is the date it will use to record the exercise unless you change it. To change the date press "n" and the program will ask you for a different date. This is useful if you want to enter data for an exercise you did on a different date. For now though, press "Enter" and we will move on! This is where you will enter the number of sets you did. Go ahead and press "2" and then press "Enter". This is where you enter the reps you completed for this set. Pick any number you want and type it here, then press "Enter". You can press "Esc" here to quit entering data, however, you will loose the data you have already put in (the "2" for sets). If you made a mistake here in the number of reps you entered, just keep going until you finish the data entry for this set. At the end of the data entry you will be asked if the data on the screen is correct. You can now change the number of sets you wanted to enter data for. This is the only place in the data entry function where you can change sets. The only other way to change data is with the data editing functions that you will learn later on. If the data is correct, press "y" and "Enter", or you can just press "Enter" to verify the correctness. Please press "Enter" to con- tinue with this lesson. Here you are asked to verify the data on the screen. To do so press "y" and then "Enter" or just press "Enter". If the data on the screen is wrong, press "n" and then "Enter". You will then re-enter the data for that particular set. Press "Enter" to continue with this lesson. You will now notice that you are at the main data entry screen. You now know how to set up an exer- cise and how to enter data for that exercise. The next subject is setting goals. You use key "F5" in the data entry screen to activate goal setting. It is nearly the same as entering data for an exercise. You will be asked to supply a date for the goal. You should set at least 2 goals. Set the first one for a date near now, and another some time off 5 in the future. When you do this it shows up well in the graphing functions for comparison against the data you have been record- ing. The last subject is deleting exercises. When you delete an exercise all data and all goals for that exercise are gone. Create a new exercise using what you have learned so far. Do not bother entering data for it or setting goals for it. When you are done and back at the data entry screen, push "F4". Press "y" and then "Enter" to delete the exercise. If you chose the wrong exercise to delete, push "n" and then "Enter" to cancel the deletion. This is the end of the lesson on data en- try. Press "F1" to return to the main menu and we will look at the graphing function. GRAPHING Now that you are at the main screen, we can start looking at the graphing functions. Press "F6" to bring up the graphing menu. Here you have a selection box and some instructions. You use the arrow key to select an exercise and then press "En- ter" to continue. If there are more exercises than can fit in the box, and you cannot find the one that you are looking for, just keep the direction key pressed and you will scroll through the names until you find the one you want. For this lesson se- lect "test1" and press "Enter". You see 2 empty graphs and a list of exercise measurements, with the top measurement highlighted. The graphing function lets you look at any 2 exercise measurements and goals at the same time. We will select the first measurement we want to look at. Push an up or down arrow key until "time" is highlighted. Now press "Enter". You will now see the first measurement you picked along with all of the possible combinations with other measurements. Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the line with "time/distance". One note here. If you select "sets" in the first screen, you will not get a combination choice. Select it in combination with another measurement to look at it with something else. Press "Enter" to continue with the lesson. Here you have a list of available display date ranges. This is useful for looking at graphs with a lot of data. If the lines on the graph are too tightly packed to allow you to see the de- tails that you are interested in, pick a smaller time frame. This has the effect of "stretching" the graph. For this lesson, select "all data" and press "Enter". This is the end of the graphing lesson. Make sure that you play around with all of the graphing options so that you can get a feeling for the graphing capabilities of this program. Try to think of what you want to see when you put all of your exercises up on the screen. When you are done looking at the graph, press any key to return to the main menu. DATA EDITING The last lesson is on the data editing functions of this program. Please press "F7" to start the data editor. You can see right away that the screen is similar to the screen for en- 6 tering data, however, the instruction block on the right side of the screen is different. Right now, go ahead and push "F2" to edit data, make sure the highlight bar is on "test1", and press "Enter". What you see is a list of dates. These are the dates that data was entered for exercises. To pick the date of the exercise data that you wish to edit, use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the desired date, and then press "Enter" to start edit- ing. When you have completed this step, you will see a list of tasks that you might wish to perform, including deleting the data for this date, changing the date of this data, going back to the previous menu, and editing the data for this date. For this lesson, go ahead and choose edit exercise data for this date. You will notice that there are 5 functions that you can perform on the data from this screen. The first 2 are self ex- planatory. You can quit the editing procedure without saving any changes you might have made to the data, or you can save all of your changes. One of the values on the screen is highlighted. This selec- tion bar highlights one data item at a time. It also serves as a marker for operations that work on a whole set at a time. To select a set to edit, use the up and down arrow keys to move the bar to the desired set, and then use the left and right arrow keys to select an item to edit. To edit an item, put the high- light bar on it and then type in the change. The value high- lighted by the bar will begin to flash. Press "Enter" to save the change and stop the flashing, or press another arrow key to move the bar and restore the old value. To edit sets that are part of the same date, but that are not displayed on the screen, push the down arrow key to scroll them into the window to edit. Use the up arrow key to scroll back. You will find that this data editing function is very simple to use. Go ahead and put the highlight bar on the first set and push "F3" to delete a set. The program will verify your selection whenever you perform a function that can destroy data. In this case you get a message asking you if you want to delete set #1. Now press "n" to cancel the operation. Press the down arrow key to select the second set. Go ahead and press "F4" to insert a new set. You will notice that set #2 becomes set #3, and that a new set #2 filled with zeroes appears. You can edit this set to put in whatever numbers you like. This is useful if you forgot to enter a set when you were entering data. Try "F5" to swap sets on your own. This is for rearranging your data. Now that you are familiar with the data editing functions, you must save your data and quit, or quit without saving your data. Push "F2" to quit without saving the edited data. You are asked if you wanted to save the data. Press "n". This is the end of your lesson. If you have any questions, review the manual. All the operations of this program are de- signed to use common sense. Do not be afraid to experiment. You cannot destroy data if you follow the warnings at the beginning of the manual and if you follow the instructions on the screen. 7 End User Comment Sheet Do you have any suggestions for improvements to the software? Do you have any suggestions for improvements to the manual? Are there any features you would like to see added to the soft- ware? Did you have any problems installing the software? Did you have any problems running the software? Was the software easy and convenient to use? Do you use the software on a regular basis? Do you have any questions you would like to ask the software developers? We will read all responses. Suggestions for improvement will be considered for inclusion in future releases of the soft- ware and the documentation. Please send this to us when you have finished filling it out. 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