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Exercise recording system

Exercise recording system description/claims

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention generally relates to a recording system and, more particularly, to an exercise recording system capable of recording exercise information of a user.

2. Description of the Prior Art

In busy modern life, it has been emphasized to stay healthy by exercise. People jog or walk in a nearby park at leisure and sometimes do exercise in a sports center to stay energetic and healthy. Generally, ten thousand steps a day is believed to be the easiest way to stay fit and healthy.

A user only has to wear a step counter on the waist to accumulatively calculate the step count when the user is walking. The user learns whether a pre-set target is reached from the accumulated step count, which is to be converted into consumed calories, after a day is done. Furthermore, the accumulated step count can be recorded on a notebook or uploaded onto the Internet for statistics of exercise during a period of time.

However, it is biased to determine consumed calories only from the accumulated step count because of the great diversity of sports. On the other hand, the user sometimes forgets to bring the step counter so that he cannot be informed of the step count of the day. Moreover, it is inconvenient to record exercise information every day. What is worse, the sensitivity of a step counter needs to be calibrated regularly; otherwise, the step counter counts zero or two steps when only one step is taken, which leads to incorrect step counts and exercise intensity.

Moreover, if the user touches the reset button by mistake, he cannot learn the correct step count for the day. Moreover, it is very likely that the user forgets to record and upload the accumulated step count onto the Internet.

Therefore, there is need in providing an exercise recording system capable of recording exercise information of a user.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an exercise recording system, capable of recording the exercise status of a user and converting the exercise status into exercise information such as the consumed calories and the exercise intensity of the user.

In order to achieve the foregoing or other objects, the present invention provides an exercise recording system for recording exercise information of a user, the exercise recording system comprising: an electronic tag, a reading module and a back-end data server. Identification information corresponding to the user is recorded inside the electronic tag disposed on the user doing exercise along an exercise path. The reading module is disposed on the exercise path so as to read the identification information recorded inside the electronic tag. The back-end data server receives the identification information transmitted from the reading module to retrieve essential information for calculating exercise information of the user.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the essential information comprises the weight, age, gender of the user and the time the user passes by the reading module.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the exercise path is a closed path. The reading module comprises a reader. The essential information comprises the distance of the exercise path. The back-end data server stores a conversion table for converting the speed of the user into a metabolic equivalent (MET). The speed of the user is the distance divided by a time interval between two times when the user passes by the reader.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the reading module comprises a plurality of readers disposed along the exercise path. The essential information comprises the distance between two of the readers along the exercise path. The back-end data server stores a conversion table for converting the speed into a metabolic equivalent (MET). The speed of the user is the distance divided by a time interval during which the user passes by two of the readers.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the electronic tag communicates with the reading module wirelessly.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the back-end data server is linked to the Internet so that the user enquires about the exercise information from the back-end data server through the Internet.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the back-end data server transmits the exercise information to the user so that the user learns the exercise information.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the exercise path is one of a walking trail, a jogging trail, a bicycle trail, a swimming lane and a hiking trail. For example, in one embodiment of the present invention, when the user is biking, the electronic tag can be disposed on a bicycle. In the present embodiment, if one or more readers are added along the peripheral path, the readers can be used for security monitoring and as reminders so as to make sure the participants are along the correct programmed exercise path. Moreover, exercise information of respective participants can be automatically recorded. In this case, missing or error recording of the exercise information can be avoided.

Therefore, in the exercise recording system of the present invention, the reader reads the identification information inside the electronic tag and transmits the identification information to the back-end data server when the user gets close to the reader in the reading module. The back-end data server calculates the metabolic equivalent (MET) according to the speed of the user and then calculates the consumed calories according to the metabolic equivalent, the weight and exercise time of the user so that the user is well informed of his exercise intensity.

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