METHOD, EXERCISE DEVICE AND SOFTWARE FOR MEASURING MAXIMUM MUSCLE STRENGTH VALUE

Abstract

The invention relates to a method, an exercise device and a software for measuring maximum muscle strength value. Wherein, the method for measuring the maximum muscle strength value through an exercise device with dynamically variable resistance signal-connected to an arithmetic control unit, is obtained by performing the following steps. The steps include: an obtaining original muscle strength value step, an initial muscle strength value generation step and a maximum muscle strength value generation step. The characteristic of the present invention is that the maximum muscle strength value is obtained according to the position of the exercise process, which overcomes the shortcoming of traditional technology that can only obtain a single data. Moreover, the present invention further forms a maximum muscle strength curve, whereby the obtained data can be used in fitness training to effectively improve training effects and avoid muscle injuries caused by overloading.

Claims

1. A method for measuring maximum muscle strength value, which through an exercise device with dynamically variable resistance and an arithmetic control unit connected with its signal, performing the following steps: an obtaining the original muscle strength value generation step, a user performing at least one exercise process at a constant speed on the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance, and recording the force values exerted by the user at each position in the exercise process, and defining the force values exerted as the original muscle strength value; an initial muscle strength value generation step, the arithmetic control unit increasing, decreasing or remain unchanged based on the original muscle strength value of each position to generate an initial muscle strength value for each position; and a maximum muscle strength value generation step, after receiving the initial muscle strength value, the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance performing an exercise test, during the exercise test, increasing each initial muscle strength value gradually, and defining the initial muscle strength value after increasing is a test muscle strength value; after completing the specified conditions of the exercise test, the highest test muscle strength value achieved at each position during the exercise test being the maximum muscle strength value at that position.

2. A method for measuring maximum muscle strength value, which through an exercise device with dynamically variable resistance and an arithmetic control unit connected with its signal, performing the following steps: an obtaining the original muscle strength value generation step, a user performing at least one exercise process at a constant speed on the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance, and recording the force values exerted by the user at each position in the exercise process, and defining the force values exerted as the original muscle strength value; an initial muscle strength value generation step, the arithmetic control unit increasing, decreasing or remain unchanged based on the original muscle strength value of each position to generate an initial muscle strength value for each position; and a maximum muscle strength value generation step, after receiving the initial muscle strength value, the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance performing an exercise test, during the exercise test, using a test muscle strength value that is greater than or equal to the initial muscle strength value; after completing the specified conditions of the exercise test, obtaining the maximum muscle strength value according to a conversion formula.

3. A method for measuring maximum muscle strength value, which through an exercise device with dynamically variable resistance and an arithmetic control unit connected with its signal, performing the following steps: an obtaining the original muscle strength value generation step, a user performing at least one exercise process at a constant speed on the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance, and recording the force values exerted by the user at each position in the exercise process, and defining the force values exerted as the original muscle strength value; an initial muscle strength value generation step, the arithmetic control unit increasing, decreasing or remain unchanged based on the original muscle strength value of each position to generate an initial muscle strength value for each position; and a maximum muscle strength value generation step, after receiving the initial muscle strength value, the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance performing an exercise test, during the exercise test, using a plurality of test muscle strength values that is greater than or equal to the initial muscle strength value; after completing the specified conditions of the exercise test, obtaining the maximum muscle strength value according to a conversion formula.

4. The method for measuring the maximum muscle strength value as described in any one of claims 1 to 3, further having a maximum muscle strength curve generation step, the arithmetic control unit drawing connections based on the maximum muscle strength values at the position of each exercise process.

5. The method for measuring the maximum muscle strength value as described in claim 1, wherein the period of the exercise test comprises at least one exercise process, and the exercise process comprises a combination of a single eccentric exercise and a single centripetal exercise, the single eccentric exercise or the single centripetal exercise; and wherein, the specified condition is to start the exercise test with the initial muscle strength value, and after each exercise process or several exercise processes, the test muscle strength value is increased at each position by a certain value or an equal proportion until the user no longer completes the exercise process.

6. The method for measuring the maximum muscle strength value as described in claim 2, wherein the period of the exercise test comprises a plurality of exercise processes, and the exercise process comprises a combination of a single eccentric exercise and a single centripetal exercise, the single eccentric exercise or the single centripetal exercise; and wherein, the specified condition is to perform a plurality of exercise processes with a certain initial muscle strength value, and not stop between each exercise process until the user no longer performs it, and the number of exercise processes is accumulated before the user no longer performing, the maximum muscle strength value is equal to W.sub.1/(1+(1?Y)?c), where Y is the number of exercise processes accumulated before the user no longer performing, W.sub.1 is a certain initial muscle strength value, c is a constant and between 0.01-0.1.

7. The method for measuring the maximum muscle strength value as described in claim 3, wherein the period of the exercise test comprises a plurality of exercise processes, and the exercise process comprises a combination of a single eccentric exercise and a single centripetal exercise, the single eccentric exercise or the single centripetal exercise; and wherein, the specified condition is to start the exercise test with the initial muscle strength value, and in the next exercise process, the test muscle strength value of each position by a certain value or an equal proportion is increased, at this time, the conversion formula for the maximum muscle strength value at each position is: $W_{1} / (1 + (1 - n) ? c) + (W_{2} - W_{1}) / (1 + (1 - n + 1) ? c) + .Math. (W_{n} - W_{n - 1}) / (1 + (1 - n + n - 1) ? c)$ wherein, W.sub.1 is the muscle strength value of the first test, W.sub.2 refers to the muscle strength value of the second test, W.sub.n refers to the muscle strength value of the nth test, and c is a constant and between 0.01-0.1.

8. The method for measuring the maximum muscle strength value as described in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the initial muscle strength value is increased by equal proportion, equal difference, and certain value or non-linear manner at each position in the exercise process.

9. An exercise device for measuring maximum muscle strength, comprising: an exercise unit, for the user performing at least one exercise process; a dynamically adjusted resistance unit, used to control the resistance during each exercise process; and an arithmetic control unit, connected with the signal of the exercise unit and the dynamically adjusted resistance unit for executing any one of the methods of claims 1 to 3 to calculate the maximum muscle strength value.

10. A software for measuring the maximum muscle strength value, installed in an arithmetic control unit, which is signal-connected to an exercise device with dynamically variable resistance, when any one of the methods of claims 1 to 3 is executed, the maximum muscle strength value is obtained.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0014] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an exercise device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0015] FIG. 2 is a flow chart of an embodiment of the present invention.

[0016] FIG. 3 is a graph of the maximum muscle force combined with the exercise process position according to the embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0017] The embodiment of the present invention is a method for measuring the maximum muscle strength value, which can obtain the maximum muscle strength value at each position within the range of exercise process, whereby it can be used as basic information for training muscle strength increased, and protects the user from muscle injuries. In the following, the device of this embodiment and the method of this embodiment will be used for description. Furthermore, in the embodiment of the present invention, each exercise process is taken as a unit, that is, the data composed of each process is viewed as a whole. Although the calculation is performed based on the position, it still belongs to the data within the process. Therefore, embodiments of the present invention can also use the two-dimensional data formed by the position and force of each exercise process to form a curve for the user observing and interpreting.

[0018] Please refer to FIG. 1, the device of this embodiment includes the invention further providing an exercise device for measuring the maximum muscle strength value, which includes: an exercise unit 10, a dynamically adjusted resistance unit 11 and an arithmetic control unit 12. The exercise unit 10 is used for the user to perform at least one exercise process. The dynamically adjusted resistance unit 11 is used to control changes of the resistance force during each exercise process. The arithmetic control unit 12 is signal-connected to the exercise unit 10 and the dynamically adjusted resistance unit 11, and is used to send out the resistance value that should be adjusted, and captures/accepts signals fed back by the exercise unit 10 or the dynamically adjusted resistance unit 11.

[0019] The method of this embodiment through an exercise device with dynamically variable resistance and an arithmetic control unit connected with its signal, performs the following steps: an obtaining original muscle strength value step S1, an initial muscle strength value generation step S2 and a maximum muscle strength value generation in step S3.

[0020] Wherein, the obtaining original muscle strength value step S1 is that the user performs at least one exercise process at a constant speed on the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance, and records the force value exerted by the user at each position during the exercise process, and defines force value exerted as the original muscle strength value. The exercise process described in this embodiment can be a centrifugal exercise, a centripetal exercise, or a combination of the centrifugal exercise and the centripetal exercise. In addition, the force values exerted at each position can also be marked and connected according to the position of each exercise to form an original muscle strength curve.

[0021] The initial muscle strength value generation step S2 enables the arithmetic control unit 12 to increase, decrease or remain unchanged according to the original muscle strength value of each position to generate an initial muscle strength value W.sub.0. The increase and decrease described here means that the initial muscle strength value W.sub.0 is obtained by calculating the original muscle strength value of each position in an equal amount, equal proportion or non-linear manner. The equal amount is to increase the original muscle strength value at each position by the same amount. The above-mentioned equal proportion means that the original muscle strength values at each position are adjusted in the same proportion. The non-linear manner refers to the reference to the relationship between process position and muscle status, and setting the increase or decrease range of each position is similar to customized adjustment of each position. To further refine the explanation, it can be regarded as an overall adjustment based on the original muscle strength curve. The adjustment method is equal amount, equal proportion or non-linear selection.

[0022] The maximum muscle strength value generation step S3: makes the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance perform an exercise test after receiving the initial muscle strength value W.sub.0, performs several exercise processes during the exercise test, and the initial muscle strength value W.sub.0 is gradually increased in each process. The initial muscle strength value W.sub.0 after being increased is defined as a test muscle strength value W.sub.1. The test muscle strength value after n times of increase is W.sub.n. After completing the specified condition of the exercise test, the highest test muscle strength value reached at each position during the exercise test is the maximum muscle strength value W.sub.MAX of that position. The specified condition is to start the exercise test with the initial muscle strength value, and after each exercise process or several exercise processes, the test muscle strength value Wn is increased at each position by a certain value or an equal proportion manner. When the user is unable to complete the n+1th exercise process, the test muscle strength value W.sub.n during the nth exercise process is the maximum muscle strength value W.sub.MAX at each position.

[0023] The embodiment of the present invention further provides another maximum muscle strength value generation step S3, which performs an exercise test by the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance after receiving the initial muscle strength value W.sub.0. During the exercise test, a test muscle strength value W.sub.1 greater than or equal to the initial muscle strength value W.sub.0 is performed; after completing the specified condition of the exercise test, the maximum muscle strength value W.sub.MAX is obtained according to a conversion formula. The specified condition can also be to use a certain initial muscle strength value W.sub.0 as the test muscle strength value W.sub.1 to perform a plurality of exercise processes, continue to exercise between each exercise process until the user no longer performs it, accumulate the user no longer performs the accumulated number of exercise processes Y, and the maximum muscle strength value W.sub.MAX=Y?W.sub.1/(1+(1?Y)?c). Y is the accumulated number of exercise processes before the user no longer performs the action, W.sub.1 is the certain initial muscle strength value, and c is a constant and between 0.01-0.1, which will vary according to different muscle groups and races, wherein one common value is 0.0278.

[0024] Taking a single position as an example, when the user completes 8 exercise processes with 10 kilograms, and the constant is 0.0278, the calculated maximum muscle strength value W.sub.MAX=W.sub.1/(1+(1?Y)?c)=10/(1+(1?8)?0.0278)=12.41619071 kg. That is, the muscle strength curve at this position is 10 kilograms. An increase of 1.241619071 times is the maximum muscle strength curve. By the maximum muscle strength curve, the maximum muscle strength value at each position is calculated.

[0025] The present invention provides another maximum muscle strength value generation step. Wherein, the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance performs an exercise test after receiving the initial muscle strength value W.sub.0. During the exercise test, it performs a plurality of test muscle strength values W.sub.1 that are greater than or equal to the initial muscle strength value; after completing the specified condition of the exercise test, the maximum muscle strength value is obtained according to a conversion formula. The specified condition is to start the exercise test with the initial muscle strength value, and in each exercise process, the test muscle strength value W.sub.1 of each position is increased by a certain value or an equal proportion. At this time, the conversion formula for the maximum muscle strength value at each position is:

[00002] $W_{MAX} = W_{1} / (1 + (1 - n) ? c) + (W_{2} - W_{1}) / (1 + (1 - n + 1) ? c) + .Math. (W_{n} - W_{n - 1}) / (1 + (1 - n + n - 1) ? c)$

[0026] Wherein, W.sub.1 is the test muscle strength value for the first time, W.sub.2 refers to the test muscle strength value for the second time. W.sub.n refers to the nth test muscle strength value, and c is a constant and between 0.01-0.1, which will vary according to different muscle groups and races, wherein one common value is 0.0278.

[0027] For example, if the user completes three exercise tests with the muscle strength curve of W.sub.1=10 kg, W.sub.2=15 kg, and W.sub.3=18 kg, the momentum accumulation is calculated as follows:

[00003] $10 / (1 - 2 ? 0.0278) + 5 / (1 - 1 ? 0.0278) + 3 / 1 = 18.73173$

[0028] It can be seen from this that the maximum muscle strength curve is the weight of the muscle strength curve of 10 kg is increased by 1.873173 times in equal proportion, which is the maximum muscle strength curve.

[0029] Through the above method, the maximum muscle strength value at each position in each exercise process can be obtained, which is not the conventional single maximum value in the exercise process. Moreover, the maximum muscle strength value is obtained through this embodiment as a reference value for dynamic adjustment, it has the function of improving training effects.

[0030] This embodiment is a method that can measure the maximum muscle strength value. The maximum muscle strength value obtained by this method is along with the position of the exercise process. Therefore, if the exercise process positions and the maximum muscle strength value form coordinate values, a maximum muscle strength curve can be formed, as shown in FIG. 3. The embodiment of the present invention also introduces the application of muscle strength curve, so that the calculation of maximum muscle strength can more economize time. In the future, in addition to guiding the control of equipment output force training through the maximum muscle strength curve, it can also be used to prevent muscle injuries or for rehabilitation treatment.

[0031] In the embodiment of the present invention, the method for increasing the initial muscle strength value is to increase the test muscle strength value in an equal proportion, equal difference, certain value or non-linear manner at each position in an exercise process.

[0032] The present invention further provides an exercise device for measuring maximum muscle strength, which includes: an exercise unit, a dynamically adjusted resistance unit and an arithmetic control unit. The exercise unit is used for the user to perform at least one exercise process. The dynamically adjusted resistance unit is used to control the resistance during each exercise process. The arithmetic control unit is signal-connected to the exercise unit and the dynamically adjusted resistance unit to execute the aforementioned method to calculate the maximum muscle strength value. In addition to measuring maximum muscle strength, this device can also be used to control the dynamically adjusted resistance unit corresponding to the output for the user performing the fitness training.

[0033] The present invention further provides a kind of software for measuring the maximum muscle strength value, which can be installed in an arithmetic control unit. The arithmetic control unit is signal-connected to an exercise device with dynamically variable resistance. After executing the aforementioned method, the maximum muscle strength value is obtained. The maximum muscle strength value obtained can also be transmitted to the arithmetic control unit to control the exercise device with dynamically variable resistance, corresponding to the maximum muscle strength curve, output resistance according to the position, and providing the user with a better fitness experience.

[0034] As can be known from this embodiment, the present invention overcomes the shortcoming of the conventional technology that can only obtain a single data during the exercise process. Moreover, when the data obtained by this method is used in fitness training, the training effect can be effectively improved, and muscle injuries caused by overloading is avoided.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

[0035] custom-character maximum muscle strength value [0036] exercise process [0037] S1 obtaining original muscle strength value step [0038] S2 initial muscle strength value generation step [0039] S3 maximum muscle strength value generation step [0040] W0 initial muscle strength value [0041] Wn., W1 test muscle strength value [0042] WMAX maximum muscle strength value [0043] custom-character muscle strength curve [0044] original muscle strength curve [0045] maximum muscle strength curve [0046] 10 exercise unit [0047] 11 dynamically adjusted resistance unit [0048] 12 arithmetic control unit

METHOD, EXERCISE DEVICE AND SOFTWARE FOR MEASURING MAXIMUM MUSCLE STRENGTH VALUE

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