System and Method for Reliably Coordinating Musculoskeletal and Cardiovascular Hemodynamics

A method for coordinating a user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity with the user's cardiovascular cycle, comprising:

• providing a recurrent prompt to the user to thereby provide a timing indication for performance of the rhythmic musculoskeletal activity;
• detecting a selected recurrent aspect of the user's cardiovascular cycle that repeats at a heart rate of the user;
• detecting a selected recurrent component of the user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity that repeats at a cadence;
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• based on said detected aspect of the user's cardiovascular cycle and the detected selected recurrent component of the user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity, adapting provision of the prompt such that said prompt is provided so as to permit timing of the selected recurrent component of the user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity to occur at a targeted relationship relative to the selected recurrent aspect of the user's cardiovascular cycle.

A system for coordinating a user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity with the user's cardiovascular cycle, comprising:

• a first detector for detecting instances of a selected aspect of the user's cardiovascular cycle, said aspect repeating at a heart rate of the user;
• a subsystem for specifying a target timing location in the cardiovascular cycle based on a plurality of said detected instances;
• a prompt device for recurrently providing a prompt to the user at a prompt rate to thereby provide a timing indication for performance of the rhythmic musculoskeletal activity, the prompt being provided such that the heart rate is substantially an integer multiple of the prompt rate;
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• a processor for adaptively adjusting timing of the prompt so that the prompt is provided substantially at the target timing location in the cardiovascular cycle in response to a change in the timing of the cardiovascular cycle.

A system for coordinating a user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity with the user's cardiovascular cycle, comprising:

• a prompt device for providing a recurrent prompt to the user to thereby provide a timing indication for performance of the rhythmic musculoskeletal activity;
• a first detector for detecting a selected recurrent aspect of the user's cardiovascular cycle that repeats at a heart rate of the user;
• a second detector for detecting a selected recurrent component of the user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity that repeats at a cadence;
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• a processor, responsive to said detection of said aspect of the user's cardiovascular cycle and the detection of said selected recurrent component of the user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity, for adaptively providing the prompt so as to permit timing of the selected recurrent component of the user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity to occur at a targeted relationship relative to the selected recurrent aspect of the user's cardiovascular cycle.