Problem Description

DESCRIPTION – UTP GYM SYSTEM

Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá has created a new gym on January 18, 2013 located in the Tumba Muerto´s headquarters on the ground floor of Building 3, with the purpose to guarantee students´ healthy and also administrative personal by giving them a secure and comfortable place where they can get relax and forget their tasks. In this gym they have chance of toning their muscles with the large range of machines they have in the gym.

We decided to take the initiative of asking them, if they agree with us for take the control of the manage of the gym, by making some databases, for making them easier the daily process at the gym.

Students and administrative can take advising of any instructor they prefer. They have two to three instructors, who like everyone else in their free time, take the opportunity for exercising, but when they get new students, they should give them assistance for the procedure, rules to be followed and the machinery operation for the development of routines and finally agree with their wishes. They watch them for be aware that the persons who are exercising make their routines in a period of an hour for giving others the chance to use the machines but they extend themselves another hour if the place is empty at the moment.

The problem is that they have not fixed the correct uses of machines and the enough advising from the instructors to customers, because there is only one person in charge of the department and the other two are student attending the opposite shift to class, but they just lend their help.

They told us many people came to the gym daily, but the majorities are men who are going tone their arms and abdomen and they do not know how many calories they burn per day, so it would be good if they have the opportunity to know that information for evaluating the amount of changes their bodies will have and how amazing can be the advantage of having a gym at your university. On the other hand we have women focus in burning calories for losing weight and others who are thin and just wish to tone legs, buttocks and abdomen and not tone arms and few women who like it.

Clients even would like to know what muscle there are toning and how long are observing well changes by checking the days of attendance and hours, the department ask us for help. We choose to create a database for it and also another for the machines´ use even how long each person can use each machine and if he or she should continue using for the same for-purpose and thus increase or maintain the routine.

Noteworthy, they also need to keep track of the health problems that some clients have such as: high pressure, tachycardia, they should know if they have all the necessary supplements in the medicine cabinet for making any first aid in case of emergency. For that reason that gym can only attend studying or working in the UTP as they must present the student card, which is included in insurance in case of accidents. So they require control of any accident with persons or machines and severity of the problem to report it to the University.

Another thing they mentioned is the inventory of equipment, because at the end of the day they must report the same conditions, the damage occasioned to machines with general description identified, because they must give maintenance to the machines in a given time or replace them with others. For this reason we need to create a database with everything they need for making them the easier contact with the companies which they bought the machines or even companies here they will give the machines´ maintenance.

The gym provide lockers to their clients for them to store their clothing or personal things, while the clients are doing exercise and when they finish their routine they must pass the keys to someone else who need it. For this they require a database too, to let them know who was the last person who used it, in case of something lose or stolen.

Finally they can take the proper control over management of the gym, which is free, and also report changes and record the performance of this department.