MyTourBook: New version 21.6.1 of the Sports Training Manager
We regularly post about free, open or free applicationss, for specific use for work or home, or for leisure and entertainment or the health area. Those of sports use they are not usually very common, however, today we will talk about a call "MyTourBook".
Basically "MyTourBook" It is useful free and free training manager that allows to visualize and analyze the routes recorded by a GPS device, bicycle, an ergometer and some other computerized sports devices.
And since, about 4 years ago on a previous occasion we have published information about "MyTourBook", we will immediately leave the link to said previous post In case it may be useful to some to complement information or notice changes and differences today:
"MyTourBook, a free software that allows you to import, extract, edit, view and export routes recorded with a GPS device, be it your cell phone, device for running or cycling, traditional GPS, etc. The main objective of this program is to manage your sports workouts. It can also be used to edit files generated by the GPS of your car but, it is more oriented to be able to track the workouts, visually and summarizing the results in different graphs." MyTourBook, tremendous training manager
MyTourBook: Free sports training manager
What is MyTourBook?
In that previous opportunity, which we already mentioned, "MyTourBook" I was going for the version number 9.05.1. He is currently going for the version number 21.6.1 (02/07/2021) and is briefly described as follows in its official website at SourceForge:
"MyTourBook is free software that allows you to view and analyze the routes recorded by a GPS device, a bicycle, an ergometer and some other computerized sports devices."
Features
Until today it has the following characteristics, functionalities or capabilities:
- Import, receive, export, edit and view tours.
- Add and display photos.
- Analyze heart rate,
- Compare tours automatically.
- Segment a tour automatically.
- Perform statistical analysis of the recorded data.
- Manage tours for different people
Furthermore, free, open and free. It is based on Eclipse (Java) and has multilingual support in several languages including Spanish and is multiplatform, that is, it works on different platforms such as: Linux, Windows and MacOS. And best of all, it is in continuous and full development, so it can do much more in the future by continuing to expand its capabilities.
Download, Installation, use and screenshots
For our case study, we will download it from your official download section which takes us directly to its repository in SourceForge.
Once downloaded and unzipped your current source file for Linux (mytourbook-21.6.1-linux-64.zip) about our usual Respin Linux called Miracles GNU / Linux , which based on MX Linux 19 (Debian 10), and built following our «Guide to Snapshot MX Linux», and that already brings by default Java 11 which is the minimum version necessary to work, we just have to go inside the created folder called "Mytourbook" and run the executable file that has the same name, either by terminal or graphically.
When starting, "MyTourBook" shows the first time a small setup tutorial of personal and regional data, which after being filled in allows us to access the following main screen:
From this point on, it only remains to explore your documentation, other sections on its website or its help menu in the application, to start using said application if it is useful for those who do exercises or sports routines that involve tours.
Summary
We hope this "useful little post" about the application called «MyTourBook», which is an interesting and useful free and free training manager that allows to visualize and analyze the routes recorded by a GPS device, bicycle, an ergometer or any other computerized sports device; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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An application like this in the hands of a professional trainer I suppose it will be very useful. For amateur personal use I see little sense, one of the purposes that I always saw when practicing sport was to know oneself, our limits, it is still my thing, but…. Isn't such an application distracting that end? I see him as the one who goes on vacation and is more concerned with taking photos than enjoying the moment.
Greetings, Gregorio. Thank you for your comment and yes, you are right. That is, it is ideal for people with their own or professional sports regimes. Because, if it is going to be used for mere curiosity or fun, then time and enjoyment of the sport are wasted in annotations, graphs and numbers that we will not really use to their maximum potential.