Metrics assessment system for health, fitness and lifestyle behavioral management

Abstract

A software and hardware system is described that enables effective lifestyle management by providing a dynamic assessment of a user's physical and behavioral metrics via a high feedback ratio interface.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A behavioral management system comprising:
 a biometric hardware device selected from the group consisting of a body weight scale, a body composition scale, a pedometer and a heart rate monitor, wherein the biometric hardware device generates user generated data and wherein the user generated data is stored in a database via a network; and   behavior management software connected to the database, wherein the user generated data is stored in and/or accessed from the database in a manner that enables one or more interfaces which reference a data set containing data related to at least one metric for each of a set of other behavior management software users, wherein the other users are individuals who can be connected to the database via other biometric hardware devices and the network, the data set being actively defined based on data flows from at least the set of other users to the database via the other biometric hardware devices and the network, and wherein the behavior management software allows a user of the biometric hardware device to:   select a time frame to generate a data subset of the data set, the data subset being based on at least the selection of the time frame, such that the user is provided with one or more changeable positions and/or ranks, each of the changeable positions and/or ranks being based on a comparison of a value of a metric from the user generated data with values of the respective metric of the data subset during the selected time frame.