Exercise Machine Load Feedback for Threshold-Based Completion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise machines lack the ability to provide real-time feedback and dynamically adjust exercise thresholds to enhance osteogenesis and muscular hypertrophy, leading to suboptimal compliance with exercise plans, particularly for individuals at risk of bone loss or muscle weakness.
Innovation Solution
A control system for exercise machines that receives load measurements from load cells, compares them to user-specific target thresholds, and provides real-time visual feedback to indicate when these thresholds are exceeded, encouraging users to apply additional force and complete exercises.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time feedback and dynamic threshold adjustment are implemented, then exercise compliance and effectiveness are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control system continuously receives load measurements from load cells and compares them to target thresholds, providing real-time visual feedback through the user interface when thresholds are exceeded. This feedback loop ensures users maintain proper force application throughout the exercise duration, improving compliance without requiring complex mechanical modifications to the exercise machine itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical feedback mechanisms with electronic sensing and digital display systems. Load cells convert mechanical force into electrical signals that are processed by the control system and displayed visually, substituting potential mechanical complexity with more reliable electronic measurement and communication systems.
2Strength
If target thresholds are set to ensure osteogenic and muscular benefits, then health outcomes are improved, but ease of operation decreases due to monitoring requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The control system automatically performs all monitoring functions including receiving load measurements, comparing them to pre-set target thresholds, and providing feedback without requiring user intervention. Users simply perform their exercises while the system autonomously tracks compliance with osteogenic and muscular strength targets, maintaining ease of operation while ensuring health benefits are achieved.
Solution Approach 2:
Target thresholds for osteogenic and muscular strength benefits are pre-calculated and stored in the control system before the user begins exercising. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for users to manually determine appropriate force levels during exercise, simplifying operation while ensuring scientifically-based health targets are met.
3Reliability
If load measurements are continuously monitored and compared to thresholds, then exercise effectiveness is improved, but use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control system monitors load measurements at periodic intervals during the exercise rather than requiring continuous high-frequency sampling. This periodic monitoring approach maintains exercise effectiveness by detecting threshold exceedances while reducing the overall energy consumption of the control system compared to continuous real-time analysis.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Improves compliance with exercise plans by ensuring users meet osteogenic and muscular strength thresholds, thereby promoting bone density and muscle mass growth, benefiting individuals at risk of osteoporosis and muscle weakness.
Implementation Method 1
receiving one or more load measurements from one or more load cells of the exercise machine
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for improving completion of an exercise is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of a control system to improve compliance with an exercise plan for an exercise machine includes receiving one or more load measurements from one or more load cells of the exercise machine. The method also includes comparing the one or more load measurements to one or more target thresholds, and determining whether the one or more load measurements exceed the one or more target thresholds. Responsive to determining that the one or more load measurements exceed the one or more target thresholds, the method also includes causing a user interface to present an indication that the one or more target thresholds have been exceeded and an exercise is complete, wherein the exercise is included in the exercise plan.