Patent ID: 6687535
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A method of controlling recovery of a person from a fitness exercise having an exercise workload performed by him/her, comprising:controlling a recovery exercise following the fitness exercise so that the recovery exercise is performed at a heart rate or at heart rates below a threshold value of the heart rate, wherein the heart has a temporal variation of heart beats and an expected moment at which the heart should beat, and wherein said heart rate variation is the temporal variation in heart beats around the expected moments at which the heart should beat; wherein said person has a body, a heart, a physical condition and a maximal oxygen uptake, and wherein said body has an amount of lactate and a lactate concentration and said heart has a heart beat having an actual moment or actual moments and an expected moment; wherein the threshold value of the heart rate is below the level at which lactate is formed and corresponds to a heart rate variation of between 3 to 8 ms, and wherein the recovery exercise reduces the amount of lactate in the body.