Smart Bag

Abstract

A smart bag offers tactical, visual, and audible interactive features for workouts and has numerous benefits: enhance aerobic fitness, core stability, coordination, power, stamina, and endurance. The smart bag improves upper-body strength and strengthen bones and ligaments and enhances full body boxing, MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), kickboxing techniques. The smart bag provides real-time guidance to indulge the user in a challenging experience. The workout guidance is presented through illuminating and extinguishing a series of light units integrated with sensors. The light units are distributed on the bag, wherein the duration and sequence of illumination of individual light units are controlled by a control system. Through interacting with the control system, the user achieves focused training at the desired intensity level that emphasizes on power, speed, accuracy, and reaction. Further, the control system can record boxing and biometric data using the sensors.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates generally to fitness equipment. More specifically, the present invention relates to a smart bag system for martial arts practice, boxing, punching, kicking, and other physical sports and workouts. The smart bag system provides a user with various exercise challenge levels by illuminating devices on the bag at pre-determined time intervals and durations for the user to throw punches and / or kicks at. Further, the smart bag system includes a control system and a plurality of sensors to turn off the illuminating devices upon impact and provide various exercise measurement data to the user through wireless communication.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Boxing, including punching, kicking, martial arts, etc., provides the magic of body workout. Bursts of anaerobic activity full of sustained intensity alternate with short rest periods, thus giving it a contemporary jargon as “high-intensity interval training”. It is a more efficient...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

The patent describes a smart bag system that offers a variety of interactive features for boxing, punching, kicking, and other workouts. The system improves cardiovascular fitness, strengthens bones and ligaments, and enhances full body boxing and MMA techniques. The integrated punching bag with an interactive control system provides real-time guidance to users, making the workout more challenging and enjoyable. Overall, the smart bag system provides a more effective and engaging training experience.

Problems solved by technology

A conventional free stand punching bag or even a swinging bag may not be able to challenge many aspects of boxing, which may include boredom, focus, accuracy, intensity, speed, training / workout record, biometric data, etc.

This may cause a user who exercises boxing using bags to get into negative habits beyond feeling bored most of the time.

The most problematic habit may be the so-called “lazy eyes” in boxers.

During countless, repetitive punching and / or kicking throws, the user may get a little too comfortable with the boxing bag resulting in losing focus and taking eyes off the bag.

The negative consequence may further demotivate the user in addition to the boring feeling that the exercise brings, and even causes the user to get punched by easy and straight punches if the user were to spar someone in a ring.

But these are not efficient solutions to use who exercise alone most of the time.

Another drawback of using conventional bags is the development of bad balance.

This can easily cause the user to lose balance, miss the target, fall, and / or incur injury.

Additionally, using conventional bags cannot help the user to emphasize on speed since there is no mechanism to motivate or force the user to throw every punch with speed.

Most conventional bags, however, do not have the capabilities for such provisions.

This kind of bag system, however, does not engage the user during boxing exercises so that the user may focus on not only punching power, but also speed, accuracy of the target.

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