Exercise Machine Workout Parameter Control System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current strength workout methods lack effective control over workout parameters, failing to adapt to user progressivity and varying fitness goals, leading to inefficient and unreliable exercise execution.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for controlling workout parameters on exercise machines, utilizing a data processing unit connected to a remote electronic calculator, which adjusts parameters like repetitions, execution rate, recovery time, and load based on user progress and goals through a workout progression cycle, ensuring progressive and goal-oriented workouts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If workout parameters are fixed, then the exercise machine operation is simple, but the workout cannot adapt to user progressivity and varying fitness goals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic workout parameter adjustment where the system automatically modifies parameters such as repetitions, execution rate, recovery time, and load based on real-time user performance data. This allows the workout to evolve and adapt to the user's progressivity, transforming a static exercise program into a dynamic, self-adjusting system that responds to user capabilities and goals.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring user performance and using this information to adjust workout parameters. The data processing unit receives performance data, compares it against target values, and automatically modifies workout parameters accordingly. This closed-loop feedback system ensures the workout remains optimized for the user's current level and progress toward their fitness goals.
2Reliability
If workout parameters are manually adjusted, then the system complexity is low, but the workout execution reliability and control are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically adjusting workout parameters without requiring manual intervention. The data processing unit autonomously analyzes user performance, compares it with target values, and modifies parameters such as repetitions, execution rate, recovery time, and load. This automation ensures consistent and reliable workout execution while eliminating the variability introduced by manual adjustments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical adjustment with automated electronic control. Instead of requiring users or trainers to manually modify workout parameters, the system uses electronic sensors, data processing units, and automated control mechanisms to adjust parameters dynamically. This substitution of mechanical manual adjustment with electronic automation enhances reliability and control precision.
3Adaptability or versatility
If workout parameters are not varied over time, then the exercise routine is simple, but it cannot accommodate user performance improvements
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously varies workout parameters over time based on user performance adaptations. The data processing unit modifies parameters such as repetitions, execution rate, recovery time, and load dynamically throughout the workout and across different workout sessions. This parameter variation ensures the workout remains challenging and effective as the user's performance improves, preventing plateaus and promoting continuous progress toward fitness goals.
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AI summary
A method for controlling variation of workout parameters of a user on an exercise machine includes checking, by a data processing module of a remote electronic calculator operatively connected to the exercise machine that a trigger condition of a cycle of workout progression steps is met. If the trigger condition is met, the method includes acquiring the last workout progression step performed by the user, identifying a successive workout progression step, setting workout parameters associated with the workout progression step to be performed, the workout progression step having associated a variation of at least one workout parameter of the user for updating a previously set value of the at least one workout parameter, updating the previously set value according to the variation of the at least one workout parameter, and sending the workout parameters to a data processing unit of the exercise machine value.