Social Network Training Service System and Method Using Smart Trainer Application

Abstract

A social network training service system and method is disclosed. The system may include a training program information maintaining unit to maintain information about each of training programs produced for each of a plurality of trainers, a training program information providing unit to provide information about each of the training programs to a user who requests a connection through a user terminal, and an information sharing management unit to form a group among a plurality users, to receive at least a portion of an exercise result of each of the users, input information input by each of the users, and body information of each of the users measured by measuring equipments of the users, and to provide at least some of the received information to user terminals of the users to enable the users to share the information

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A social network training service system comprising:
 a training program information maintaining unit to maintain information about each of training programs produced for each of a plurality of trainers;   a training program information providing unit to provide information about each of the training programs to a user who requests a connection through a user terminal; and   an information sharing management unit to form a group among a plurality users, to receive at least some of an exercise result of each of the users, input information input by each of the users, and body information of each of the users measured by measuring equipments of the users, and to provide at least some of the received information to user terminals of the users to enable the users to share the information.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the training program information providing unit provides information about each of the training programs to the user who requests a connection through an application installed in the user terminal, and the information sharing management unit identifies a training program selected by the user based on the provided information, and forms a group among a plurality of the users for each training program. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 an exercise information providing unit to provide information about at least one exercise method to the user terminal of the user based on at least one of a body part and an exercise equipment selected by the user.   
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein at least one of a plurality of the users includes a trainer who produced the training program, the training program information providing unit further provides information input by the trainer to the user terminals of the users. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the information sharing management unit provides the users with a preset goal for each training program, forms and manages a plurality of groups set by the selection of each of the users for the goal, calculates a target value for each of a plurality of the groups, and determines a winner group and a loser group among a plurality of the groups. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a user information maintaining unit to receive at least one value of a height, a weight, a body fat level, a muscle mass, a neck circumference, a chest circumference, an abdomen circumference, a hip circumference, an arm circumference, and a thigh circumference of the user from at least one of the user terminal of the user and the measuring equipment of the user, and to store and maintain the value associated with the user; and   a body change measuring unit to, when at least one of the values is further received through a function provided to the user at the end of an application program selected by the user, measure a change in a body of the user by comparing the stored and maintained value with the further received value.   
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the training program information providing unit further provides information about at least one of an alternative exercise and related stretching regimen for each training program. 
     
     
         8 . A user terminal comprising:
 a training program information receiving unit to receive information about training programs from a social network training service system;   a training program information displaying unit to display the received information about the training programs; and   a training program information transmitting unit to transmit information about a training program selected by a user to the social network training service system,
 wherein a group is formed among a plurality of users by the social network training service system, 
 at least some of an exercise result of each of the users, input information input by each of the users, and body information of each of the users measured by measuring equipments of the users is transmitted to the social network training service system, and 
 at least some of the transmitted information is provided to the user terminals of the users by the social network training service system to enable the users to share the information. 
   
     
     
         9 . The user terminal of  claim 8 , wherein a training program is recommended for each of the users by the social network training service system based on at least a portion of the exercise result and the input information. 
     
     
         10 . A social network training service method comprising:
 maintaining information about each of training programs produced for each of a plurality of trainers;   providing information about each of the training programs to a user who requests a connection through a user terminal; and   forming a group among a plurality users, receiving at least some of an exercise result of each of the users, inputting information input by each of the users, and body information of each of the users measured by measuring equipments of the users, and providing at least some of the received information to user terminals of the users to enable the users to share the information.