Kung Fu Timer (aka Pile Standing Timer, Post Standing Timer, Pole Standing Timer) is freeware. Its purpose is to help promote Hunyuan Gong (the Yiquan standing meditation) as well as help people who practise pile standing better manage their practice time.

For more detailed information about Kung Fu Timer, please visit the Help Topics section.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows XP or higher
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher

If your operating system does not have .NET Framework 2.0 (or higher) installed，errors will occur when you run the KFTimer.exe file.

Main Features:

1. Three timer functions

There are three different timers you may find useful for different reasons:

(1) Countdown Timer
(2) Alarm Clock Timer
(3) Stopwatch Timer

Countdown Timer

Alarm Clock Timer

Stopwatch Timer

2. Record time

This function helps you record how many hours you stand in each standing session and what comments or thoughts you have after each session. It also helps manage the recorded time later for update or deletion.

3. Plan Pile Planning

The amount of time you spend on practising Pile Standing is pivotal to achieving a positive outcome from it. So a better planning tool is built into the software for this sole purpose. You can set daily target for each weekday and your actual standing time can be compared with your planned time. Then you can use progress report to see how you have progressed towards your goal for the whole year.

You can also set up special plans for some special days during a year. These special days can be New Year's Day, your birthday, etc. In these special days, you probably are not able to practise according to your normal standing plans. This is where special plans come to the rescue.

4. Progress Report

Progress Report compares your plans with your actual practice hours. It sums up your daily practice information by using all the records for that day - planned or actual. Year to Date (YTD) figures as well as the differences between plan and actual are also shown.

5. Multi-user

Some people have more than one family member practise Pile Standing and need this software to be used by multiple users. This has been designed into the software. The first user is always admin user. Admin user can add new users and delete existing users. Each user has a unique username.

6. User Customization

Flexibility is another main feature of this software. There are four areas within the software you can customize to suit your needs. Photo display, prompt music setup, managing exercise categories, and interval reminder setup.

7. No installation required

This Pile standing software requires no installation. Just unzip the downloaded file and run KFTimer.exe. If you want to run it on your thumb drive, no problems - save all the files on it and run KFTimer.exe.

Note: please use free software 7-Zip to unzip the downloaded file.

How to Download

Click here to download Kung Fu Timer. After unzip the downloaded file, just run file KFTimer.exe to start the timer application. To unzip, please use free software 7-Zip.