METHOD OF DEFINING THE PHYSICAL CONDITION LEVEL

• US 20120035950A1
• Filed: 03/23/2010
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tichý, Tomás
• Original Assignee: Tichý, Tomás
• Inventors: Tichý, Tomás
• Granted Patent: US 8,762,168 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/222 combined with detection or measurement of physiological parameters, e.g. heart rate
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0065 Evaluating the fitness, e.g. fitness level or fitness index
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0068 Comparison to target or threshold, previous performance or not real time comparison to other individuals
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/72 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/74 Atmospheric pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/75 Humidity
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/06 heartbeat rate only
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/065 within a certain range
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/20 blood composition characteristics
• 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: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

The method of defining the physical condition level, in particular the method of defining the physical condition level for men, under which first the parallel measuring of heart rate, organism performance, and measuring or evaluation of other parameters influencing physical performance take place using a measuring device, and subsequently the measuring or evaluating device forms a database containing at least two records that include a set pairs of the heart rate and organism performance values measured at the same time and arranged in that record chronologically.

Claims

1. A method of defining the physical condition level, in particular the method of defining the physical condition level of men, comprising using a measuring device tp perform parallel measuring of the heart rate, performance of an organism, and measuring or assessment other parameters influencing physical performance, wherein the measuring or evaluating device then creates a database containing at least two records, which contain a set of pairs of heart rate values and performance of the organism, measures at the same time and arranged in the specific record chronologically.

2. The method of defining the physical condition level, under the claim 1, wherein the record stored in the database contains also information on the date of measuring and other parameters influencing physical performance, which are parameters of the environment the physical performance is made in, and parameters characterising health condition of the person evaluated.

3. The method of defining the physical condition level, under claim 1, wherein the database is subsequently processed by measuring or evaluating device, so that first it groups performance values from the specific record or time period that have identical value of the heart rate assigned, and then arithmetic means are defined from these values resulting in a set of data pairs representing the specific record from the database or the specific time period and containing information on the heart rate and its corresponding average performance.

4. The method of defining the physical condition level, under the claim 3, wherein the measuring or evaluating device makes subsequently filtration of data pair sets of the specific record or time period, so that at least two data pair sets of the specific record that have the same parameters influencing physical performance are filtered out.

5. The method of defining the physical condition level, under claim 3, wherein values of at least two data pair sets of the specific record or time period are displayed in the diagram by measuring or evaluating device, so that the x-coordinate contains the heart rate value and the y-coordinate contains its corresponding average performance value, and the frequency of individual average performances at the specific heart rate in the specific record is given by sum of basic sets of data pairs, which heart rate values are identical in.

6. The method of defining the physical condition level, under claim 1, wherein the measuring or evaluating device subsequently selects one of the data pair sets representing the specific record or time period, and its performance values are defined as zero, with the result that at least one other set of data pairs of another record or time period is assigned to it, and a set of pairs is created containing heart rate values and values of differences of individual average performances of specific records or time periods compared at the same heart rate.

7. The method of defining the physical condition level, under the claim 6, wherein the measuring or evaluating device subsequently defines a value of the weighted average mean from differences of individual average values at the specific heart rate, between two records compared, is included in the weighted arithmetic mean so many times, who many times the sum of frequencies of data pair sets of performance and specific heart rate is included in both records compared.

8. The method of defining the physical condition level, under the claim 7, wherein the measuring or evaluating device subsequently selects a single record from the set of compared records, which is assigned the value 0 W/1 heart-beat, and remaining records are compared with this sample record, so that they are assigned respective value of the unit W/1 heart-beat, and then the best record is selected and compared again, and all other records are assigned final values of the unit W/1 heartbeat, and all records are then plotted based on the date and value of the unit W/1 heart-beat.

9. The method of defining the physical condition level, under claim 1, wherein the measuring or evaluating device subsequently defines the fatigue value, when the difference of the actual performance at the specific time and the average performance, corresponding to the same heart rate as the actual heart rate at the specific time, is determined first, and values set are then divided in the time line into two parts, values of the first half (part) of the record and the second half (part) of the record are added separately, and the coefficient of fatigue is defined so that the totalled value of the first half of the record is subtracted from the totalled value of the second half of the record.

10. The method of defining the physical condition level, under claim 1, wherein the measuring or evaluating device defines values of performance development in relation to heart rate zones, and a single average value from the specific record is determined for each heart rate zone and subsequently shown in the diagram.