System and method for capturing exercise data

• US 9,550,091 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2015
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hoofcase, LLC
• Original Assignee: Hoofcase, LLC
• Inventors: Emerson, Brandon
• Primary Examiner(s): RICHMAN, GLENN E
• Application Number:
  US14/695,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20160310789A1
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0724 Bar-bells; Hand bars
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/075 with variable weights , e.g. weight systems with weight selecting means for bar-bells or dumb-bells
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/17 Counting, e.g. counting periodical movements, revolutions or cycles, or including further data processing to determine distances or speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/40 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• 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

Abstract

The system and method for capturing exercise data may include offsetting an imaginary longitudinal axis of a center beam of a workout bar and an imaginary longitudinal axis of an outer beam of the workout bar. The system and method may include disposing an interface disk between the center beam and the outer beam and may include securing the center beam to an inner disk of the interface disk; securing the outer beam to an outer disk of the interface disk; and moving the inner disk, the outer disk, or a combination thereof, to offset the imaginary longitudinal axis of the center beam and the imaginary longitudinal axis of the outer beam. The system and method may include sensing, dynamically by a sensor, an amount of weight disposed on the outer beam. The system and method may include communicating the amount of weight wirelessly to a computing device.

Claims

1. A method for capturing exercise data, the method comprising:

offsetting an imaginary longitudinal axis of a center beam of a workout bar and an imaginary longitudinal axis of an outer beam of the workout bar;

sensing, dynamically by a sensor, an amount of weight disposed on the outer beam; and

communicating the amount of weight wirelessly to a computing device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

disposing an interface disk between the center beam and the outer beam.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

securing the center beam to an inner disk of the interface disk;

securing the outer beam to an outer disk of the interface disk; and

moving the inner disk, the outer disk, or a combination thereof, to offset the imaginary longitudinal axis of the center beam and the imaginary longitudinal axis of the outer beam.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

rotating the inner disk axially with respect to the center beam.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

moving the outer disk linearly with respect to the inner disk.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

securing the sensor to a first block of the workout bar; and

abutting the first block with a second block of the workout bar to stimulate the sensor.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising:

securing the first block to one of the inner interface disk and the outer interface disk;

securing the second block to the other of the inner interface disk and the outer interface disk; and

moving the first block linearly with respect to the second block to abut the first block and the second block.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the sensor comprises a strain gauge and further comprising:

stressing the strain gauge to sense the amount of weight.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

an imaginary line extending orthogonally through the imaginary longitudinal axis of the center beam and the imaginary longitudinal axis of the outer beam; and

disposing the sensor along the imaginary line.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

communicating the amount of weight to an application server.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sensing, by the sensor, an amount of exercise repetitions performed using the workout bar; and

communicating the amount of exercise repetitions wirelessly to the computing device.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

communicating the amount of weight and the amount of exercise repetitions to an application server.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

abutting a first block associated with the outer beam with a second block associated with the center beam; and

sensing the amount of weight disposed on the outer beam by measuring a pressure on one of the first block and the second block, a strain on one of the first block and the second block, a tension on one of the first block and the second block, or a combination thereof.

13. The method of 1 further comprising:

rotating the outer beam axially with respect to the center beam; and

moving the outer beam linearly with respect to the center beam.