System for weight loss and improving physical fitness

Abstract

A system and method are provided for improving the physical fitness of a person wherein the person performs at least one walking or running exercise routine at substantially that person's maximum performance level for a period between 1 minute and 10 minutes. Based on that maximum performance level, the method and system determine a variety of timed walking or running exercise regimens, each regimen including at least one routine to be performed by the person on a regular basis and wherein no single routine exceeds 10 minutes in duration. The person then selects and performs one or more of the walking or running regimens such that the person completes at least 10 minutes of exercise in a training session. The routines vary in duration from 1 to 10 minutes and in repetition from 10 to 1 repetitions. Numerous embodiments of the system are included such as a portable device.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to a system for improving the physical fitness of a person, thereby reducing excess body fat resulting in long-term weight loss, and a method therefor, and more particularly, the invention relates to a method, system, and software for ascertaining the physical fitness level of a person and devising exercise routines to improve the fitness level of a person based upon that fitness level. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Good health and physical fitness go hand-in-hand. Numerous exercise books and diet programs have been promoted throughout the years to assist persons desiring to improve their physical fitness. Some involve complex formulas which take into account countless variables including percent body fat or bodily dimensions such as the circumference of the waist, arms and legs. Others involve eating and exercise regimens having point systems designed to limit a person's caloric or carbohydrate intake, or balance the consumption of certain ...

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Benefits of technology

[0006] It is a further object of the present invention to provide a method for improving the physical fitness of a person by measuring that person's fitness level and prescribing a group of simple exercise routines based upon that fitness level.

[0009] It is a further object of the present invention to embody the system and method of measuring and improving the physical fitness level of a person in a simple slide rule.

[0010] It is yet another object of the present invention to embody the system and method of measuring and improving the physical fitness level of a person in a portable electronic apparatus.

Problems solved by technology

Few work and fewer still are simple to use and easy to implement without the use of elaborate equipment, tedious measurements or complex tables.

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