Patent ID: 9089736
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A rehabilitation and training weight lifting assistance process comprising the steps of: providing a weight-adjustable weight apparatus having a concentric weight lifting phase and an eccentric weight lifting phase; providing a computer controlled weight lifting assistance system operably connected to said weight apparatus; selecting a weight to be lifted by a user in a selected exercise comprising weight lifting repetitions; determining a range of motion and a repetition speed of the user during the selected exercise; determining a weight lifting assistance percentage to be provided to the user during the selected exercise; monitoring the selected exercise upon commencement by sensing a trigger condition during said concentric phase; providing the weight lifting assistance percentage during the concentric phase of the selected exercise and increasing the weight lifting assistance percentage during said concentric phase in response to sensing said concentric phase trigger condition such that the effective weight of said selected weight is reduced, while providing no weight lifting assistance percentage during the eccentric phase of the selected exercise.