CrossTrak Tips
CrossTrak is designed to suit a diverse range of fitness enthusiasts,
athletes and coaches of all levels participating in a variety of sports and
disciplines. To optimize the program for your specific needs, check out the following tips.
Customize Your Program!
Preferences can be changed at any time in Setup. Setting them up before you
begin using the program will make data entry faster and easier and improve the
quality and accuracy of reports. If several people are using the same program,
each user may choose their own settings. The sample data (Phil Givner) installed
with CrossTrak includes examples for many of the qualitative fields.
Enter Dates More Quickly
Click on the month or year in the title bar of the pop up calendar to
quickly select dates (such as birth date) instead of scrolling month by
month.
Back-up Your Data Regularly
To backup the complete CrossTrak database (all athletes), select Backup
Database from the Tools menu (Setup screen in pre-v2.5). To backup data for
individual athletes (for any date range), select Web Backup from the
Online
Features menu (v2.5.1+ only). Also see
FAQs.
Compare Workouts
Use the Search tool (Tools menu, Search) to find specific workouts or
compare similar workouts (i.e. add Description/Route to the search criteria
to compare time/speed on a particular course). View details of each workout
by double-clicking on the workout. Rank the workouts by clicking on a
column.
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Importing Data from the FitSense FS-1
Please see the notes
here.
Tracking Gym Workouts
If you ride a stationary bike at the gym, add it to the Cycle Type or
Description/Route fields. You could call it "Indoors", "Upright", etc. The
same applies to running on a treadmill. Machines such as a
Stairmaster/stepper might be best described under the "Other" category.
Heart Rate Data
If you regularly track heart rate data, but forget your monitor or lose
the data for a workout, try estimating the numbers. A complete set of data
will provide more accurate reporting than if the fields were left blank for
some workouts.
Only Use 3 HR Zones?
To track heart rate data for 3 zones instead of 5, enter numbers above
your maximum heart rate for zones 4 & 5 in Setup (i.e. Zone 4 = 220-230,
Zone 5 = 231-250). The Online Help file for v2.8+ includes more on this.
Create Custom Session Metrics Graphs
To analyze downloaded HR/Session data using a spreadsheet, open the HRM/Session
Editor (right-click on a workout, select Edit HRM/Session data). Drag your
mouse over the data, press Ctrl-C on your keyboard, then Paste the data as
CSV (comma separated values) into a spreadsheet.
Going on a Trip?
Keep track of training data while away from your computer. Don't risk
forgetting the details of your training when you are traveling... Print a
few copies of the CrossTrak
Travel Log and enter the data into the program later.
Days of the Week
CrossTrak versions prior to v2.8 use Sunday as the first day of the week
by default. The quick buttons in reports (last week, last month, etc.) will
use this to produce reports with weekly information. If you consider Monday
to be the start of your week, simply select a Monday as the start date of
the weekly report you are creating. CrossTrak will then use data from Monday
- Sunday for weekly reports. CrossTrak v2.8+ allows users to specify any day
as the start day of the week! (see Setup > Athlete)
Send a Tip!
If you have a tip for using CrossTrak
that you'd like to share, please
e-mail it
along with your name to us. We'll credit you with the tip if we post it on the
site.
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