Exercise monitoring device, exercise monitoring program storage medium, and exercise monitoring method

• US 20080220940A1
• Filed: 02/07/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kasama, Koichiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,900,158 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0065 Evaluating the fitness, e.g. fitness level or fitness index
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/063 Spoken or verbal instructions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/065 within a certain range
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0028 for running, jogging or speed-walking movable endless bands A63B22/02

Abstract

An exercise monitoring device includes: a setting section which sets a user'"'"'s age and resting pulse rate; a calculating section which calculates a pulse rate range of aerobic exercise on the basis of the age and the resting pulse rate set by the setting section; a sensor which measures a working pulse rate of the user; a monitoring section which monitors whether or not the pulse rate measured by the sensor is within the pulse rate range calculated by the calculating section; and a notifying section which notifies the user of a result of monitoring obtained by the monitoring section.

Claims

1. An exercise monitoring device comprising:

a setting section which sets a user, s age and resting pulse rate;

a calculating section which calculates a pulse rate range of aerobic exercise on the basis of the age and the resting pulse rate set by the setting section;

a sensor which measures a working pulse rate of the user;

a monitoring section which monitors whether or not the pulse rate measured by the sensor is within the pulse rate range calculated by the calculating section; and

a notifying section which notifies the user of a result of monitoring obtained by the monitoring section.

2. The exercise monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the calculating section calculates the pulse rate range, by storing beforehand a maximum percentage and a minimum percentage of aerobic exercise with respect to a maximum heart rate reserve, and calculating upper and lower limits of pulse rates respectively corresponding to the maximum and minimum percentages.

3. The exercise monitoring device according to claim 2, wherein, in accordance with an equation:

pulse rate=resting pulse rate+[(220−

age)−

resting pulse rate]×

(x/100), when a percentage with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve is x %, the calculating section calculates the pulse rate range by inputting the maximum and minimum percentages of aerobic exercise with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve as the x, and calculating the upper and lower limits of pulse rates.

4. The exercise monitoring device according to claim 2, further comprising a memory section which stores a corresponding table between a percentage with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve and exercise intensity in which METs is the unit, wherein the notifying section further notifies the user of exercise intensity obtained from the pulse rate measured by the sensor and the corresponding table and/or an amount of exercise that is temporal accumulation of the exercise intensity.

5. An exercise monitoring program storage medium storing an exercise monitoring program which is executed in a computing device which a sensor that measures a working pulse rate of the user is connected to or mounted on, and which makes the computing device operate as an exercise monitoring device that comprises:

a setting section which sets a user'"'"'s age and resting pulse rate;

a calculating section which calculates a pulse rate range of aerobic exercise on the basis of the age and the resting pulse rate set by the setting section;

a monitoring section which monitors whether or not the pulse rate measured by the sensor is within the pulse rate range calculated by the calculating section; and

a notifying section which notifies the user of a result of monitoring obtained by the monitoring section.

6. The exercise monitoring program storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the calculating section calculates the pulse rate range, by storing beforehand a maximum percentage and a minimum percentage of aerobic exercise with respect to a maximum heart rate reserve, and calculating upper and lower limits of pulse rates respectively corresponding to the maximum and minimum percentages.

7. The exercise monitoring program storage medium according to claim 6, wherein, in accordance with an equation:

pulse rate=resting pulse rate+[(220−

age)−

resting pulse rate]×

(x/100), when a percentage with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve is x %, the calculating section calculates the pulse rate range by inputting the maximum and minimum percentages of aerobic exercise with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve as the x, and calculating the upper and lower limits of pulse rates.

8. The exercise monitoring program storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the exercise monitoring device further comprises a memory section which stores a corresponding table between a percentage with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve and exercise intensity in which METs is the unit, and

the notifying section further notifies the user of exercise intensity obtained from the pulse rate measured by the sensor and the corresponding table and/or an amount of exercise that is temporal accumulation of the exercise intensity.

9. An exercise monitoring method which is executed in an exercise monitoring device which a sensor that measures a working pulse rate of the user is connected to or mounted on, the exercise monitoring method comprising the steps of:

setting a user'"'"'s age and resting pulse rate;

calculating a pulse rate range of aerobic exercise on the basis of the age and the resting pulse rate set in the step of setting;

monitoring whether or not the pulse rate measured by the sensor is within the pulse rate range calculated in the step of calculating; and

notifying the user of a result of monitoring obtained in the step of monitoring.

10. The exercise monitoring method according to claim 9, wherein the step of calculating is a step of calculating the pulse rate range, by storing beforehand a maximum percentage and a minimum percentage of aerobic exercise with respect to a maximum heart rate reserve, and calculating upper and lower limits of pulse rates respectively corresponding to the maximum and minimum percentages.

11. The exercise monitoring method according to claim 10, wherein in the step of calculating, in accordance with an equation:

pulse rate=resting pulse rate+[(220−

age)−

resting pulse rate]×

(x/100), when a percentage with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve is x %, the pulse rate range is calculated by inputting the maximum and minimum percentages of aerobic exercise with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve as the x, and calculating the upper and lower limits of pulse rates.

12. The exercise monitoring method according to claim 10, wherein the step of notifying is a step of further notifying the user of exercise intensity obtained from the pulse rate measured by the sensor and the corresponding table between a percentage with respect to the maximum heart rate reserve and exercise intensity in which METs is the unit, and/or an amount of exercise that is temporal accumulation of the exercise intensity.