Method and arrangement in connection with exercise device

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and an arrangement in connection with an exercise device, which comprises a flywheel, wherein resistance of an exercise being performed is adjusted by decelerating the rotation of the flywheel. The method and arrangement also comprise adjusting the magnitude of the exercise resistance by means of a virtual flywheel simulation.

1 . A method in connection with an exercise device, which comprises a flywheel, wherein resistance of an exercise being performed is adjusted by decelerating the rotation of the flywheel, and wherein the magnitude of the exercise resistance is further adjusted by a virtual flywheel simulation.  
   
   
       2 . A method according to  claim 1 , wherein the virtual flywheel simulation comprises storing a desired exercise route as a course and elevation file and repeating the route virtually by software in a user interface of the exercise device so that the resistance and the inertia obtained from computational kinetic and potential energy are adjusted automatically as a function of the route's angle of ascent/descent and of air and rolling resistance dependent on the speed.  
   
   
       3 . A method according to  claim 1  or  2 , wherein the user of the exercise device changes the resistance by using the gears of the exercise device virtually.  
   
   
       4 . A method according to  claim 2 , wherein the desired exercise route is videoed in connection with storing and the stored exercise route is repeated as the exercising person proceeds.  
   
   
       5 . A method according to  claim 2  or  4 , wherein the stored exercise route is repeated on a display of the user interface of the exercise device.  
   
   
       6 . An arrangement in connection with an exercise device, which comprises a flywheel, wherein resistance of an exercise being performed is arranged to be adjusted by decelerating the rotation of the flywheel, and wherein the arrangement comprises a means arranged to further adjust the resistance by means of a virtual flywheel simulation.  
   
   
       7 . An arrangement according to  claim 6 , wherein in the virtual flywheel simulation, a desired exercise route is arranged to be stored as a course and elevation file and the stored information is arranged to be repeated virtually by software in a user interface of the exercise device so that the resistance and the inertia obtained from computational kinetic and potential energy are adjusted automatically as a function of the route's angle of ascent/descent and of air and rolling resistance dependent on the speed.  
   
   
       8 . An arrangement according to  claim 7 , wherein the arrangement is provided with means allowing the user of the exercise device to use the gears of the exercise device virtually and thus to change the resistance.  
   
   
       9 . An arrangement according to  claim 7 , wherein the exercise route is arranged to be videoed in connection with storing and that the arrangement comprises means for repeating the stored exercise route as the exercising person proceeds.  
   
   
       10 . An arrangement according to  claim 9 , wherein the exercise route is arranged to be repeated on a display of the user interface of the exercise device.