Patent ID: 6913559

Claim:
An apparatus for monitoring and displaying exertion data, comprising: a sensor that measures a pressure change at the sensor and provides a pressure signal corresponding to a magnitude of the pressure change; a processing unit that receives the pressure signal, processes the pressure signal according to processing instructions, generates pressure data corresponding to the pressure signal, and displays a visual representation of the pressure data; and a sensor cable that provides an electrical connection between the sensor and the processing unit, wherein the sensor provides the pressure signal to the processing unit via the sensor cable; wherein the processing unit includes a microprocessor that receives the pressure signal, processes the pressure signal, generates the pressure data, and generates display data, memory, in which the processing instructions and display data are stored and which provides the processing instructions to the microprocessor to control processing of the pressure signal and display of the visual representation, and a signal transmitter, disposed in electrical communication with the microprocessor; wherein the signal transmitter is one of a radio frequency transmitter and an infrared transmitter.