System for providing guided and monitored exercise routines

A system for providing guided and monitored exercise routines comprising:

• a) a sensor rig configured to be worn on a torso of a participant, the sensor rig comprising a processor, a memory, a wireless transceiver, and a plurality of chest expansion sensors disposed at different positions about the torso, each of the plurality of chest expansion sensors configured to detect a respective chest expansion movement of the participant while breathing;
• b) the sensor rig configured to collect, from the plurality of chest expansion sensors, a plurality of chest expansion measurements and to derive therefrom a pulmonary data measurement representing an absolute expansion of the participant's lungs, wherein the plurality of chest expansion sensors are positioned to permit geometric determination of the absolute expansion of the participant's lungs from the plurality of chest expansion measurements;
• c) a smart device which receives the pulmonary data measurement from the sensor rig via the wireless transceiver;
• d) a program code stored on the smart device which uses the pulmonary data measurement to select at least one targeted exercise for the participant;
• e) a display operably connected to the smart device which displays the targeted exercise to the participant such that the participant can follow along and perform the targeted exercise;
• and
• f) wherein the program code is configured to:
• (i) receive the pulmonary data measurement from the sensor rig;
• (ii) compares the pulmonary data measurement with a correlated safety limit;
• (iii) automatically suspend presentation of the targeted exercise on the display when the pulmonary data measurement exceeds the correlated safety limit;
• (iv) continue comparing pulmonary data measurements subsequently received from the sensor rig with the correlated safety limit while presentation of the targeted exercise remains suspended;
• and
• (v) automatically resumes presentation of the targeted exercise on the display after one of the pulmonary data measurements subsequently received from the sensor rig is determined to be within the correlated safety limit.