Customized Athletic Workout File Generation System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Generating customized athletic workouts that incorporate health monitoring devices is time-consuming for coaches, requiring substantial effort to create motivating and effective training plans.

Innovation Solution

A method and device system that allows instructors to record and export workout data, notes, and trigger conditions, enabling the creation of customizable workout files that can be used by subsequent users to replicate the workout experience, with features like GPS coordinate waypoints, biometric parameters, and environmental data linked to audio or video notes, played back when specific conditions are met.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If coaches manually create customized athletic workouts incorporating health monitoring devices, then the workouts are motivating and effective for athletes, but the time commitment and effort required by coaches is substantial

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveworkout effectivenessVSAvoidcoach time commitment
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows coaches to create a workout template once with all necessary parameters, health monitoring thresholds, and instructional notes. This template can then be copied and reused multiple times for different athletes or training sessions, eliminating the need to manually recreate workouts while maintaining effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables coaches to pre-configure workout parameters, health monitoring thresholds, and instructional content in advance. These pre-configured elements are stored and automatically applied during actual training sessions, reducing the time required during active coaching while ensuring workout quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If coaches create detailed customized workouts with health monitoring integration, then the training plans are motivating and effective, but the complexity of generating these workouts increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraining plan qualityVSAvoidworkout generation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The workout creation process is divided into distinct modular components: workout parameters (duration, intensity), health monitoring thresholds (heart rate zones, GPS coordinates), and instructional notes. Each component can be independently configured, stored, and reused, simplifying the overall complexity while maintaining comprehensive training plan quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a universal workout template structure that can accommodate multiple types of athletic activities and health monitoring parameters. A single template framework serves multiple purposes across different sports and training scenarios, reducing the complexity of creating specialized workouts for each case.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Loss of information

If workouts include comprehensive health monitoring data and instructor notes, then the virtual instructor experience is enhanced, but the data processing and file generation time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstructor experience qualityVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Instructor notes and health monitoring thresholds are pre-configured and linked to specific workout parameters and GPS coordinates before the actual workout execution. This preliminary setup ensures that all instructional content and monitoring criteria are ready in advance, enhancing the virtual instructor experience without adding processing time during active workouts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically links instructional notes to relevant workout data points and GPS coordinates based on pre-configured associations. This self-linking capability eliminates manual data matching time while ensuring that the virtual instructor experience includes all necessary contextual information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9079059B2System and method for generating and using customized athletic workouts
Publication Date: 2015.07.14 PIONEER IP
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AI summary

A method for generating and using a workout file, comprising recording workout data and notes while performing an athletic workout, attaching trigger conditions to the notes, and exporting the workout data, the notes, and the attached trigger conditions as the workout file, where the exported workout file is configured to be used by a subsequent user to repeat the athletic workout in a manner that plays the notes when the subsequent user performs the trigger conditions.