Patent ID: 7806806

Claim:
A solid state exercise apparatus for facilitating a fully contracted exercise regimen for a subject comprising: a casing; a strain gauge housed within said casing; a central processing unit housed within said casing; a memory housed within said casing, coupled to the central processing unit, the memory storing a computer program mechanism, the computer program mechanism comprising: (A) instructions for receiving one or more exercise constraints, wherein the one or more exercise constraints were determined as a function of the medical health information of said subject by a remote computer; (B) instructions for computing an exercise result from a plurality of fully contracted exercises that were performed by said subject using said exercise apparatus in the presence of a fitness trainer or health professional, wherein each fully contracted exercise in said plurality of fully contracted exercises places stress on a fully contracted muscle group of the subject, and wherein said exercise apparatus uses said strain gauge in order to impose an exercise constraint in said one or more exercise constraints; (C) instructions for sending said exercise result to said remote computer; and (D) instructions for repeating (i) said instructions for receiving (A), (ii) said instructions for computing (B), and (iii) said instructions for sending (C) using a new set of one or more exercise constraints, wherein said set of one or more exercise constraints were refined based upon the exercise result of a previous instance of said instructions for computing (B); and wherein said instructions for repeating are performed after a mandatory recovery period for said subject that was determined by the exercise result of a previous instance of said instructions for computing (B).