Patent ID: 8917273

Claim:
A method for controlling a display device of a muscle trainer equipped with at least one force sensor for sensing a person's periodic or sustained muscular force, and comprising: depicting, in the display device, a currently applied muscular force is depicted in relation to a target muscular force; and controlling the display device is controlled such that a force queried by the patient is always depicted in a specific target region of a panel in the display device, wherein: the target muscular force is depicted by a first panel of predefined area representing the target muscular force, and the currently applied muscular force is depicted by a second, variable panel positioned within the first panel, the area of said second panel is caused to change according to a specific relationship to the currently applied muscular force, and the target muscular force is caused to change in response to time-variable default requirements for a muscular force to be applied to the muscle trainer, such that the area of said second panel is caused to change within the first panel based on the changing of the target muscular force.