Get Started
traX allows you to put together workouts from any number of cardio, strength or flexibility exercises into a training session, your exercises are then started automatically one after the other - you don't have to worry about anything except your workout.
Setup
On first start traX guides you through the setup process, asking you for
- Your Name
- Body data
- Either sync your dat with Apple Health (recommended)
- Manually add your data
- If you do not want to connect with Apple Health to sync your body data please make sure to update your data on first start or later on Profile. traX needs those values to calculate your calories burned.
- Access to your location, needed for outdoor activity tracking
- if not granted calories and distance can not be calculated
Navigation
Menu
Access traX menu using the hamburger button on top right.Close the menu by selecting an item or use the (X) button.
Dashboard
The dashboard serves as traX homepage with tipps and tricks, your recent activities, traX release notes and traX intro.
Activities
All your activities are accessable via activities menu item. You can filter by activity type, access activity record or start a new activity using the Start Activity button.
Workouts
On the workout page all your workouts are shown, you can filter them by category or favorite.
Exercises
On the exercise page all your exercises are accessible, you can filter them by category or favorite. Create exercises of type cardio, strength or flexibility.
Statistics
traX collects your workout progress like distance, calories, number of workouts and exercises and more. In statistics you will find all the numbers, charts and bars.
Profile
On profile page you can add or change your profile picture as well as your body data needed for correct calory calculations.
Settings
Settings page lets you set defaults for
- Activity Sessions
- Exercises, Workouts and Activity items
- UI settings (dashboard)
- App properties
About
On About view you can access traX help and support, check the feature bbacklog or known limitations as well as the release notes, licence and privacy information.
Dashboard
The dashboard serves as traX homepage with tipps and tricks, your recent activities, traX release notes and traX intro. You can configure the first page in settings to show or hide the sections displayed.
Exercises
On the exercise page all your exercises are accessible, you can filter them by category or favorite. Create exercises of type
- Cardio
- Strength
- Flexibility
Workouts
Use workouts to create your individual trainings. Add all exercises for your session to the workout created, reorder them as needed, then simply start your training using the Start Activity button on the workout detail page.
Activities
Access all your activities, in detail view you will find the overall session summary plus all detail summaries per exercise inluded.
Settings
Settings page lets you set defaults for
- Activity Sessions
- Exercises, Workouts and Activity items
- UI settings (dashboard)
- App properties
Profile
On profile page you can add or change your profile picture as well as your body data needed for correct calory calculations. You can choose to let traX sync your body data from Apple Health, in case you don't make sure to add your data manually, otherwise correct calory calculation is not available.
FAQ
I like traX for tracking my fitness, do I need to pay for it?
No. traX is for free, no in app buys or advertising is planned. Nevertheless you will be able to donate like buy me a coffee in a future version of traX.
I did not allow location tracking on setup, can I change that somewhere?
Yes.
- Start a cardio activity, when the activity starts the system should ask you for location access.
- If the dialog does not show up, go to your iPhone settings, search for traX and use the Location menu to allow access.
I did not allow Apple Health access on setup, but I want traX to sync my activities to Apple Health. Can I configure that?
Yes. traX asks for read data which is your body data plus write data which are your activities.
- Open traX profile and activate Synchronize with Apple Health. In the upcoming dialog check all access you want traX to give.
- If the dialog does not show up, go to your iPhone settings, find Data Protection, open traX, here all access priviledges are shown, update them as desired.
I created a workout with several exercises, when starting it the first exercise does not start immediately, but shows the list of all exercises. How can I set immediate start?
In Settings. Open Settings, on first tab in Activity Settings check Activity Quickstart.
I noticed that activity start and end time difference is more than ahown in activity summary, does traX calculate this value wrong?
No. There is a setting allowing you to either stop activvity timer between single exercises or keep timer running. Open Settings, on first tab in Activity Settings check or uncheck Auto-Pause after Exercise.