Method and equipment for monitoring the effectiveness of physical activities, especially sports activities

Abstract

During a personalized monitoring procedure facilitating safe and effective sport or rehabilitation activities, in the preparatory section user anamnesis and activity protocol data are recorded; at an idle phase, based on current heart rate measurement, we decide whether the activity can be continued; at a load phase, we monitor changes in physiological parameters, related to the physical activity, primarily the parameters that determine safe heart operation and, if necessary, provide a warning; in a regeneration phase, heart rate deceleration stage is monitored, heart rate variability parameters are calculated, and the result obtained is taken into account when monitoring in relation to the next training, while evaluating the idle phase. Related apparatus comprises a data processing unit connected to measuring electrodes and sensors and a display unit in wireless communication with the data processing unit. The latter is preferably a smartphone, while the data processing unit includes expert knowledge of the physiology of the monitored training that enables procedure execution.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . Equipment for monitoring the effectiveness of physical activities, especially sports activities, comprising:
 at least two electrodes placed on an upper body of a user, wherein said at least two electrodes are fixed in an electrode strap;   evaluating electronics attached to the electrode strap, communicating with the at least two electrodes; and   a display unit realized with a mobile personal digital computing device communicating with the evaluating electronics;   wherein the at least two electrodes are unipolar or bipolar lead electrodes arranged in the strap and are located to anatomically fit the body size of the user so that the top row of the permissible measuring point matrix determining the location of the electrodes is located at the height of the user's collarbone, its lowest line is located at the height of the user's navel, and in the case of the electrode, applicable both for male and female body geometry, the connection between the cervical band and the waist strap is provided by a connecting band running along the collarbone insensitive to the body geometry,   the electrodes are in a releasable communication connection with a data processing unit used as the evaluation electronics; and   wherein the data processing unit communicates with the display unit using wireless connection.   
     
     
         2 . The equipment according to  claim 1 , wherein unipolar lead electrodes are connected to an input of the data processing unit via a weighted network built from resistors of the same value. 
     
     
         3 . The equipment according to  claim 1 , wherein the electrodes are implemented using a dome shaped, elastic conductive rubber contact surface. 
     
     
         4 . The equipment according to  claim 1 , wherein the mobile personal digital computing device is a smartphone. 
     
     
         5 . The equipment of  claim 1 , wherein it includes a breathing sensor as well, besides the electrodes.