After contacting Medical Productions, it became clear that their app was pulled from the store and would not be returning. The owner informed me that he put up a fight, but Apple was firm.

Knowing how much I use the app myself, I purchased the rights from him for rather cheap (I guess not being able to sell an app in the store makes it worthless for his company). My group has redesigned it over the past while, and we will be bringing all the old features back within a week or two (the majority is there for now).

We went with the name Full Fitness as a recommendation from them because apparently they were facing some BS trademark name lawsuit from some large US company that helped lead to all of this trouble.

Hope you guys like the app! We’re keeping it dirt cheap for a limited time to give everyone a break:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/full-fitness/id418806764?mt=8

Let me know what you think at healthxperts@gmail.com. We will be keeping up their excellence in turns of regular updates.

The developer’s name is Hooman Zohoor. If anyone knows how to contact him, please contact me.

I have been a member of several gyms since I’ve been working out since the ’90s. I used to use the Muscle Head logs, and I loved those. When writing down information, it’s quick. Digital logs are something I longed for, and then came th iPhone, and then came these apps.

I will say that in a busy gym, I’d feel awkward holding up a machine while scrumaging through and dialing in set details between sets as someone waits for the machine. However, I don’t work out at busy times, so I’ve had no problem taking the time to enter data in digital logs.

I used iFitness, then switched to Pump One’s Fitness Builder.

I like certain things about Fitness Builder, like the ability to search exercises, the thumbnailed view of your workouts in the My Workout log list vs. iFitness’ date view — which tells me nothing about what I did unless I turn it into landscape view. However, I eventually went back to iFitness after some updates. Now they have an iPad version coming out!

I feel that iFitness has a slow startup. When the iPhone/Pad 4.0 OS is released, this may be remedied with multitasking. As-is, when I change a song, then return to iFitness, that delayed startup is annoying. Plus it doesn’t return to where I left off.

However, it does motivate me. Seeing that I haven’t worked out biceps in 2-3 weeks explains why I’m so weak, and can no longer lift what was once a lightweight to me. Sometimes we don’t even realize such gaps unless we have a log view. Things happen, you miss a couple of workouts — next thing you know, you had a 2 day instead of a 5 day workout for the week. It’s good to SEE that.

That said, people should go with what works for them. I keep an eye on iFitness’s updates as well as Fitness Builder’s. iFitness still has me hooked.