Under this heading you'll find some useful tools that we have picked up over time.
The first to make it to our house is our Calorie Counter which is a great source of info on the contents of many of the food items that you eat. Calories, fiber, sodium, fat etc., from a McDonalds Big Mac to an apple, it's all here.
Get nutrition information for over 35,000 food items including items from more than 250 restaurants with this gadget. Please let me know if you find this a useful tool. If you don't......poof !, it will be gone. If on the other hand you do find it useful, please let me know. Explore it and see how much of a value it has for you.
Our second tool to make the big time is the Training Heart Rate Calculator, which utilizes the Karvonen Method for determining the level that you should be working at for most of your workouts, somewhat dependent on your goals.
This Target Heart Rate calculator is a great tool for helping you find out just how hard you should be working, partially dependent on what your goals are. It doesn't mean that every workout you do needs to be in your "Target Zone"; It doesn't mean that if you are not in your target zone, you're not doing yourself any good; It simply is a guide for you to use, to help in your quest.
Some people may have a max heart rate that is quite different from what the formula yields. If you have any questions about this tool or what it means, send us an email and we'll get you some answers. We also have a great article on this website regarding heart rate.
Our third tool is a calculator to change measurements form Metric to English and vice versa.
Ordinarilly, I wouldn't have this on our website, but the first thing I found when looking at the amounts of food that I eat was that some of the servings were listed in grams and some in ounces. Ie:,
www.mypyramid.com said that I should be eating 3.5 ounces of whole grains each day. Well I hopped on over to the loaf of whole wheat bread that's on our counter and of course, one slice of bread is listed as 36 grams. Great! So was born the metric calculator below. Simply type in a number in any box and the appropriate counter number is revealed.