Patent ID: 7780574

Claim:
A computer program product for use in conjunction with a computer system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium and a computer program mechanism embedded therein, the computer program mechanism comprising: (A) instructions for receiving medical health information of a subject enrolled in a fully contracted exercise regimen comprising a plurality of fully contracted exercises, wherein each fully contracted exercise in the plurality of fully contracted exercises places stress on a fully contracted muscle group of the subject; (B) instructions for developing one or more exercise constraints as a function of the medical health information of said subject; (C) instructions for receiving an exercise result from the plurality of fully contracted exercises that were performed by said subject using solid state exercise equipment in the presence of a fitness trainer, wherein said solid state exercise equipment has a strain gauge in order to impose or monitor exercise constraints in said one or more exercise constraints and wherein data from the strain gauge is found in said exercise result; (D) instructions for creating a mandatory recovery period for said subject during which time said subject does not perform said plurality of fully contracted exercises, wherein said mandatory recovery period is a function of the exercise result received in (C); (E) instructions for developing a new set of one or more exercise constraints that are refined based upon the exercise result received in (C); and (F) instructions for repeating said instructions for receiving (C) and said instructions for creating (D) using the new set of one or more exercise constraints.