Method for promoting individual fitness
First Claim
1. A method for promoting individual fitness comprising the steps of:
- initiating a competition between two participants that one participant will have exercised more than the other participant at an end of the competition, the competition initiating step including the steps of a) designating a time period during which credits will be earned for a qualifying exercise of each participant, b) designating a total number of time periods to constitute the end of the competition, carrying out of the competition by the two participants, said carrying out step including the steps of a) awarding a first quantity of credits, during each time period, to each participant for each qualifying exercise which each participant performs for a pre-selected number of the qualifying exercises, b) awarding a second quantity of credits greater than the first quantity of credits, during each time period, to each participant for a qualifying exercise which each participant performs for a next qualifying exercise after the pre-selected number of qualifying exercises, and c) keeping track of the credits awarded to each participant for each qualifying exercise during the competition;
summing, at the end of the competition, the quantity of credits awarded to each participant during the total number of time periods to determine an earned total of credits for each participant;
determining, by the earned totals for each participant, an outcome of the competition; and
where the outcome of the competition is a winner, rewarding the winner with a pre-determined prize.
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A method for promoting individual fitness includes the initiating a competition that one participant will exercise more than the other. This initiating step includes the steps of designating a time period during which credits will be earned for a qualifying exercise, and designating a total number of time periods to constitute a competition end. During each time period: a first quantity of credits is awarded for each qualifying exercise which each participant performs for a pre-selected number thereof; and a second quantity of credits greater than the first quantity is awarded for a qualifying exercise which each participant performs for a next qualifying exercise after the pre-selected number. During the competition, the credits awarded to each participant are kept track of, so that at the end the sum thereof determines an earned total of credits for each participant which sums are then used to determine an outcome of the competition.
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31 Claims
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1. A method for promoting individual fitness comprising the steps of:
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initiating a competition between two participants that one participant will have exercised more than the other participant at an end of the competition, the competition initiating step including the steps of a) designating a time period during which credits will be earned for a qualifying exercise of each participant, b) designating a total number of time periods to constitute the end of the competition, carrying out of the competition by the two participants, said carrying out step including the steps of a) awarding a first quantity of credits, during each time period, to each participant for each qualifying exercise which each participant performs for a pre-selected number of the qualifying exercises, b) awarding a second quantity of credits greater than the first quantity of credits, during each time period, to each participant for a qualifying exercise which each participant performs for a next qualifying exercise after the pre-selected number of qualifying exercises, and c) keeping track of the credits awarded to each participant for each qualifying exercise during the competition;
summing, at the end of the competition, the quantity of credits awarded to each participant during the total number of time periods to determine an earned total of credits for each participant;
determining, by the earned totals for each participant, an outcome of the competition; and
where the outcome of the competition is a winner, rewarding the winner with a pre-determined prize. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for promoting individual fitness comprising the steps of:
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initiating a competition between two participants that one participant will exercise more than the other participant at an end of the competition, the competition initiating step comprising the steps of a) designating a time period during which credits will be earned for a qualifying exercise of each participant, b) designating a total number of time periods to constitute the end of the competition, c) designating a first quantity of credits to be awarded, during each time period, to each participant for each qualifying exercise which each participant performs for a pre-selected number of the qualifying exercises, d) designating a second quantity of credits greater than the first quantity of credits to be awarded, during each time period, to each participant for a qualifying exercise which each participant performs for a next qualifying exercise after the pre-selected number of qualifying exercises, and e) designating a third quantity of credits to be awarded, during each time period, to each participant for each qualifying exercise which each participant performs after the next qualifying exercise;
carrying out of the competition by the two participants, said carrying out step including the step of keeping track of the credits awarded to each participant for each qualifying exercise during the competition, and summing, at the end of the competition, the quantity of credits awarded to each participant during the total number of time periods to determine an earned total of credits for each participant;
determining, by the earned totals for each participant, an outcome of the competition, said determining of the outcome step includes the steps of a) designating a base number of credits, where
the base number of credits={[(the first quantity of credits)×
(the pre-selected number of the qualifying exercises)]+(the second quantity of credits)}×
(the total number of time periods),b) determining if the two participants were each awarded earned totals which are equal to or exceed the base number, and if so determining i) whether the earned total of one participant exceeds the earned total of the other participant by a first predetermined winning quantity such that the outcome of the competition is that the one participant is a winner or ii) whether the earned total of one participant does not exceed the earned total of the other participant by the first predetermined winning quantity such that the outcome of the competition is that neither participant is a winner;
c) determining if the two participants were each awarded earned totals which are less than the base number, and if so determining that neither participant is a winner; and
d) determining if one of the two participants was awarded an earned total which is less than the base number while the other of the two participants was awarded an earned total which is equal to or greater than the base number, and if so determining that the other participant is a winner; and
where the outcome of the competition is a winner, rewarding the winner with a predetermined prize. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for promoting individual fitness comprising the steps of:
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initiating a competition between a challenger and each participant that each participant will have exercised more than a preselected amount at an end of the competition, the competition initiating step comprising the steps of (a) designating a time period during which credits will be earned for a qualifying exercise of each participant, (b) designating a total number of time periods to constitute an end of the competition, (c) designating a first quantity of credits for each qualifying exercise which each participant performs, during each time period, for a pre-selected number of qualifying exercises, and (d) designating a second quantity of credits greater than the first quantity of credits for each qualifying exercise which each participant performs, during each time period, for a next qualifying exercise performed after the pre-selected number of qualifying exercises;
keeping track of the credits awarded to each participant during each time period;
summing, at the end of the competition, the quantity of credits awarded to each participant during the total number of time periods to determine an earned total of credits for each participant;
determining, by the earned totals for each participant, whether each participant is a winner of the competition; and
rewarding each winner of the competition with a pre-determined prize. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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