This episode features Personal Fitness, released in 1981 by APX. It was programmed by Dave Getreu.
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Media
APX
1981 APX Catalog cover – Only $1 
Ad in APX catalog for Personal Fitness.
Personal Fitness in Action
Splash screen 
Splash screen – Revised for version that supports smart device heart readings. 
New screen in revised version to support a data disk in drive other than 1. The original program only supported disk 1. 
Regardless of version, you are prompted to insert the disk before reading. 
Looking at the charts with no data entered. 
Program main menu. 
Starting the Exercise Sequence. 
1st Exercise – Overhead Stretch. Personal Fitness adapts and will adjust your repetition count as you progress. 
2nd Exercise -Jumping Jacks. 
Repetition counts displayed with animation. Keep in sync! 
3rd Exercise – Sit Ups. 
Confirm number of repetitions completed. 
4th Exercise – Hip Lifts. 
Confirm the number of repetitions completed. 
5th Exercise – Push Ups. 
Confirming number of repetitions completed. 
6th Exercise – Trunk Twister. 
Confirming number of repetitions completed. 
7th Exercise – Running In Place. This is a static 3 minutes. Keep pace with the animation. 
Revisions I made to the program to allow for smart device heart rate readings. You can use 1 which is the standard 15 second count as originally designed in the program, or 2 to enter a direct heart rate reading from a smart device. 
Revised program entering a direct heart rate reading from a smart device. 
Efficiency summary is displayed for the original version and the revised version of Personal Fitness. 
When using the original program (or 1-Measurement option of the revised program), you will need to count your heart rate via pulse measurement over 15 seconds. Press START when you are ready to begin. 
Keep counting that pulse rate. Honestly, the smart device reading is simpler and quicker. 
Enter your pulse count over the 15 seconds, it will compute your heart rate. You’d be done by now if you used the revised version. 
Efficiency summary when using the original program or the measurement option of the revised program. 
Trunk Twister animation stop/start. Hey, is that Freddie Mercury. 
Saving the data at the end of the session. 
Session over, left at BASIC prompt.
Charts
Daily – The last 30 logical days. These are not tied to specific dates. 
Weekly. The last 30 logical weeks based on the logical days. These are not tied to specific dates.
Create New Data Disk
Running MAKER.DIS from BASIC. 
WARNING Acknowledgement! 
Some info… 
Enter your age. 
Enter your gender. 
Time to measure your resting heart rate. 
Count your pulses over 15 seconds. 
Entering your pulse count. 
Insert the data disk. It must be in drive 1. 
Ready to run the main program now!
Files
Directory of files on the program disk. 
Contents of the DISKNAME.DAT file. 
Directory of a data disk. 
Contents of the D file on the data disk, when echo’d to the screen. 
Hex dump of the D file on the data disk.
Print Output
There is no printer output from Personal Fitness.
Revised Version
I revised Personal Fitness to allow two features:
A) The ability to use the data disk in a drive other than drive 1.
B) The ability to enter your heart rate from a direct reading from a smart device like an Apple Watch.
This file is named with .key extension here so WordPress would accept the upload – ATR is not a WordPress supported file type. Download and rename it to .ATR.
Show Links
- AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-personal-fitness-program_6341.html
- AtariMania (French version): http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-culture-physique_2165.html
- Atari Archives: https://www.atariarchives.org/APX/showinfo.php?cat=20033
- Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/atr_APX_Personal_Fitness_Program
- Apple Watch: https://www.apple.com/watch/
