Monitoring and assessing subject response to programmed physical training

Inventors

QUINN, Joseph R.

Abstract

In a system for monitoring and assessing subject response to programmed physical training, a client application provides an intake form, into which subject information, such as contact information, demographics and history may be entered. At least part of the subject information may be stored in a central repository for aggregation with other subject data, for analysis and reporting. Parameterized descriptions of exercises produce a binary string for each exercise, the resulting in a binary map of an entire exercise system, such as the PILATES system. Using a digital session planner, a practitioner selects from filtered lists of exercises to generate a customized exercise sequence for a subject. After the training session, the binary strings for the session are aggregated and a summary of the session displayed for user and/or practitioner. Session data may be uploaded to the repository for aggregation with data from other subjects/session for analysis and reporting.

Core Innovation

The invention provides a system and monitor for tracking and assessing subject response to a program of physical exercises, where all exercises are uniquely represented by single strings of Boolean values. A listing of unique strings of Boolean variables of uniform length represents each single exercise within a predetermined system of physical training, and each bit of the string represents a parameter of a parameterized description that completely describes the exercise.

The system implements a graphical user interface that includes a session planner for displaying a session. The session comprises a list of exercises filtered to a particular patron for a particular session, and the system receives user selections of exercises and a user input to save the session, whereupon the session is saved to a local data store to create a persistent record of the session.

The invention creates a session summary that includes an aggregate of binary strings for the exercises included in the session. The session summary displays aggregates of raw movement data for the patron’s skeletal system, joints and muscles, level of difficulty, and apparatus used, and is displayed to at least one of the user and the patron and stored in at least one of the memory and a remote repository for later reporting and analysis.

Claims Coverage

The independent claims cover five inventive features centered on Boolean-string exercise representation, patron-specific session planning, and session summary generation and storage.

Across the independent claims, coverage is centered on representing exercises as uniform-length Boolean strings, using a session planner GUI to filter and assemble patron-specific sessions, and generating and storing a session summary that aggregates raw movement data, level of difficulty, and apparatus used for later reporting and analysis.

Stated Advantages

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