Caloric exercise monitor
AssigneePolar Electro Oy
InventorBurton H. Bimbaum
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Abstract
A caloric exercise monitor and method for monitoring a person's caloric expenditure during exercising. The caloric exercise monitor generally includes a means for measuring the person's heart rate during exercise, an input device for enabling the person to enter an exercise goal, a calculating unit including a mathematical algorithm for calculating a caloric expenditure rate of the person during exercise based on the measured heart rate and a display for displaying an exercise parameter necessary to reach the entered exercise goal based on the calculated caloric expenditure rate. The displayed exercise parameter can be either or both the calories remaining to be expended to reach the entered goal or the remaining exercise time required to reach the entered goal.
Claims35
A caloric exercise monitor for monitoring a person's caloric expenditure during exercising comprising:
- means for measuring the person's heart rate during exercise;
- an input device programmed to enable entry of a calory based exercise goal;
- a calculating unit including a mathematical algorithm for calculating the caloric expenditure rate of the person during exercise based on the measured heart rate and for calculating an exercise parameter representing an amount of additional exercise necessary to reach the entered exercise goal based on the calculated caloric expenditure rate;
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- a display for displaying the calculated exercise parameter necessary to reach the entered exercise goal based on the calculated caloric expenditure rate.
A method for monitoring an exercise goal during exercise comprising the steps of:
- entering a calory based exercise goal into a caloric exercise monitor;
- measuring a person's heart rate during exercise with the caloric exercise monitor;
- calculating a caloric expenditure rate of the person during exercise based on the measured heart rate;
- calculating an exercise parameter representing an amount of additional exercise necessary to reach the entered exercise goal based on the calculated caloric expenditure rate;
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- displaying the calculated exercise parameter necessary to reach the entered exercise goal based on the calculated caloric expenditure rate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.