Patent ID: 8052580
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. System for guiding a person, with the aid of feedback, to a physiological cumulative state during a physical exercise that is proportional to a change in general homeostatic state achieved by exercising, the physical exercise having a duration, an intensity that may vary over the duration of the physical exercise and that at any given moment during the physical exercise has a value defined as a momentary intensity, a physiological target that is a physiological state of the person at the end of the physical exercise, and a performance parameter that is one selected from a group consisting of distance, duration of the exercise, speed, power output of work, EPOC change, accumulated EPOC, energy consumption, energy consumed, oxygen consumption, total oxygen consumption, heart-rate level, TRIMP already accumulated, number of steps, work output as a function of speed and inclination of surface, and change in blood lactic acid concentration, the system comprising: a sensor for measuring at least one quantity that is proportional to the momentary intensity and selected from a group consisting of heart rate, speed, pedaling power measured from pedals of a bicycle, % VO means for recording values of the physiological target and the performance parameter; means for giving feedback to the person to keep the exercise intensity within a dynamic intensity guidance range; program means for, at regular intervals during the physical exercise: