System and method for reliably coordinating musculoskeletal and cardiovascular hemodynamics

A method for detecting a cardiovascular cycle of a user, generating data corresponding to the cardiovascular cycle and using the data to coordinate a rhythmic musculoskeletal activity of the user with the cardiovascular cycle of the user, comprising:

• providing a recurrent prompt to the user from a prompt device to thereby provide a timing indication to the user 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 using a first detector;
• detecting a selected recurrent component of the user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity that repeats at a cadence of the user using a second detector;
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• wherein based on the data generated from 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 using a processor that receives the target timing location and adaptively adjusts the timing of the prompt automatically such that said prompt is provided so as to coordinate timing of the selected recurrent component of the user's rhythmic musculoskeletal activity to occur with a targeted timing relationship relative to the timing of the selected recurrent aspect of the user's cardiovascular cycle.

A system for detecting a cardiovascular cycle of a user, generating data corresponding to the cardiovascular cycle and using the data to coordinate a rhythmic musculoskeletal activity of the user with the cardiovascular cycle of the user, comprising:

• a first detector for detecting instances of a selected aspect of the cardiovascular cycle of the user, said selected aspect repeating at a heart rate of the user;
• a subsystem for specifying a target timing location in the cardiovascular cycle of the user based on the data generated from a plurality of said instances detected by the first detector;
• 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 that receives target timing location and adaptively adjusting timing of the prompt automatically so that the prompt is provided by the prompt device to the user substantially at the target timing location in the cardiovascular cycle in response to a detected change in the timing of the cardiovascular cycle.

A system for detecting a cardiovascular cycle of a user, generating data corresponding to the cardiovascular cycle and using the data to coordinate a rhythmic musculoskeletal activity of the user with the rhythmic cardiovascular cycle of the user, 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 of the user;
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• a processor, responsive to the data generated from said detection of said selected recurrent aspect of the cardiovascular cycle of the user and the detection of said selected recurrent component of the rhythmic musculoskeletal activity of the user, for automatically and adaptively providing the prompt so as to coordinate timing of the selected recurrent component of the rhythmic musculoskeletal activity of the user to occur with a targeted timing relationship relative to the timing of the selected recurrent aspect of the cardiovascular cycle of the user.