System and methodology for customized and optimized exercise routines

• US 20070082788A1
• Filed: 12/19/2005
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Timex Group BV (Tanager Group BV)
• Original Assignee: Timex Group BV (Tanager Group BV)
• Inventors: Ciervo, Richard
• Application Number:
  US11/311,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20070082788A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/045 with a separable interface unit, e.g. for communication
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0078 Exercise efforts programmed as a function of time
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/06 heartbeat rate only
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0075 Means for generating exercise programs or schemes, e.g. computerized virtual trainer, e.g. using expert databases

Abstract

An integrated system including an electronic device and at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment, wherein the electronic device includes means for receiving physiological sensor data from a physiological sensor; means for storing said physiological sensor data as stored information; and means for transmitting the stored information to the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment prior to the commencement of a selected exercise; and the physically separable piece of exercise equipment includes means for receiving the stored information from the electronic device prior to the commencement of the selected exercise; means for structuring the selected exercise based on the received stored information; means for permitting the user to perform the selected exercise. A method of performing a selected exercise on a piece of exercise equipment is also provided.

Claims

1. An integrated system comprising an electronic device and at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment, wherein:

the electronic device comprises;

means for receiving physiological sensor data from a physiological sensor;

means for storing said physiological sensor data as stored information; and

means for transmitting the stored information to the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment prior to the commencement of a selected exercise; and

the physically separable piece of exercise equipment comprises;

means for receiving the stored information from the electronic device prior to the commencement of the selected exercise;

means for structuring the selected exercise based on the received stored information;

means for permitting the user to perform the selected exercise.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device receives and stores physiological sensor data transmitted from the physiological sensor during the performance of the selected exercise on the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the electronic device updates the stored physiological sensor data received during the performance of the selected exercise on the physically separable piece of exercise equipment.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device receives and stores physiological sensor data from the physiological sensor while engaged in an exercise that is not the selected exercise on the at least one piece of exercise equipment.

5. The system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the electronic device updates the stored physiological sensor data received during the performance of the exercise that is not the selected exercise on the at least one piece of exercise equipment.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device is comprised of a sensing device and a physically separable module, wherein the sensing device comprises the physiological sensor and the means for receiving the physiological sensor data;

and

the sensing device comprises means for wirelessly transmitting the stored information to the module.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device is comprised of a sensing device and a physically separable module, wherein the sensing device comprises the physiological sensor and the means for receiving the physiological sensor data;

and

the sensing device comprises means for wirelessly transmitting the stored information to the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the module comprises a display for displaying heart rate information processed in the sensing device during an exercise.

9. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the module is wearable about a wrist and comprises means for entering and storing physiological data.

10. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the module comprises means for transmitting the stored physiological data to the sensing device for storage therein.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the electronic device is comprised of a sensing device and a physically separable module, wherein the sensing device comprises the physiological sensor and the means for receiving the physiological sensor data;

and

the sensing device comprises means for wirelessly transmitting the stored information to the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment.

12. A method of performing a selected exercise on a piece of exercise equipment, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

receiving, in an electronic device, physiological sensor data from a physiological sensor;

storing, in the electronic device, the physiological sensor data as stored information;

transmitting the stored information from the electronic device to the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment prior to the commencement of the selected exercise and having the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment receive the stored information from the electronic device prior to the commencement of the selected exercise;

structuring the selected exercise based on the received stored information; and

performing the selected exercise.

13. An electronic device to be used within an integrated system comprising at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment, wherein the physically separable piece of exercise equipment comprises means for receiving stored information from the electronic device prior to the commencement of a selected exercise, means for structuring the selected exercise based on the received stored information and means for permitting the user to perform the selected exercise, wherein the electronic device comprises:

means for receiving physiological sensor data from a physiological sensor;

means for storing said physiological sensor data as stored information; and

means for transmitting the stored information to the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment prior to the commencement of the selected exercise.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the electronic device receives and stores physiological sensor data transmitted from the physiological sensor during the performance of the selected exercise on the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the electronic device updates the stored physiological sensor data received during the performance of the selected exercise on the physically separable piece of exercise equipment.

16. The electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the electronic device receives and stores physiological sensor data from the physiological sensor while engaged in an exercise that is not the selected exercise on the at least one piece of exercise equipment.

17. The electronic device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the electronic device updates the stored physiological sensor data received during the performance of the exercise that is not the selected exercise on the at least one piece of exercise equipment.

18. The electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the electronic device is comprised of a sensing device and a physically separable module, wherein the sensing device comprises the physiological sensor and the means for receiving the physiological sensor data;

and

the sensing device comprises means for wirelessly transmitting the stored information to the module.

19. The electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the electronic device is comprised of a sensing device and a physically separable module, wherein the sensing device comprises the physiological sensor and the means for receiving the physiological sensor data;

and

the sensing device comprises means for wirelessly transmitting the stored information to the at least one physically separable piece of exercise equipment.

20. The electronic device as claimed in claim 19, wherein the module comprises a display for displaying heart rate information processed in the sensing device during an exercise, the module is wearable about a wrist and comprises means for entering and storing physiological data and the module comprises means for transmitting the stored physiological data to the sensing device for storage therein.