Exercise Equipment Load Sensor Feedback for Technique Correction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Exercise equipment users often fail to maintain proper technique and fit due to lack of real-time feedback, especially when instructors are distracted or users are under mental fatigue, leading to potential health risks and decreased performance.
Innovation Solution
The integration of load sensor devices at multiple contact points on exercise equipment, such as handlebars, seats, and pedals, connected to a controller that analyzes operator-applied loads and body weight to provide real-time feedback on posture and fit adjustments via an indicator device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time feedback systems are implemented to monitor exercise technique, then exercise technique accuracy and safety are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the exercise equipment into multiple contact locations (handlebars, seat, pedals) with individual load sensor devices at each location. This segmentation allows monitoring of specific body parts and exercise technique aspects independently, improving measurement accuracy while keeping each sensor unit relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple load sensor devices, a controller, and an indicator device into an integrated feedback system. The controller merges data from all contact locations to comprehensively assess exercise technique, providing a unified evaluation that improves overall monitoring reliability.
2Measurement precision
If multiple load sensor devices are installed at different contact locations to comprehensively monitor exercise technique, then measurement accuracy is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The measurement system is segmented into multiple independent load sensor devices placed at different contact locations (handlebars, seat, pedals). Each sensor independently measures load at its specific location, improving comprehensive measurement precision by capturing distributed body weight information across multiple points.
3Reliability
If automated feedback systems are used to provide continuous exercise technique monitoring, then exercise safety and performance are improved, but ease of operation decreases due to additional equipment
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise equipment performs self-monitoring and self-evaluation of exercise technique through integrated load sensors and controllers. The system automatically detects improper technique and provides feedback without requiring external instructor intervention, enabling the equipment to serve itself in monitoring its own usage correctness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates an indicator device that provides real-time feedback to users about their exercise technique. This feedback loop allows users to immediately correct improper form, improving exercise safety and effectiveness while maintaining operational simplicity through automated monitoring.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are for determining and indicating a desired corrective change in exercise technique to an operator and optionally for determining and indicating a correct or incorrect fit between an operator and an exercise equipment. The systems comprise an exercise apparatus that is engaged by an operator at least a first contact location; a first load sensor device that senses an operator-applied load amount at the first contact location; a controller that determines a desired corrective change in exercise technique and/or the correct or incorrect fit between the operator and the exercise equipment based at least upon the operator-applied load amount at the first contact location and a current body weight of the operator; and an indicator device that indicates the desired corrective change in exercise technique and/or correct or incorrect fit, for example to an operator or an instructor.