Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing resilient force resistance
Patent
1995-05-02
1996-09-03
Donnelly, Jerome
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing resilient force resistance
482130, 482142, A63B 2100
Patent
active
055519342
ABSTRACT:
The portable exercise mat enables the user to exercise his or her gluteus maximus muscles by permitting the user to lift his or her thigh above a planar exercise mat face or surface. The mat includes a forward and a rearward mat section. The rearward planar mat section is joined by a hinge mechanism to the forward planar mat section. Both sections form a flat, enlarged mat system when it is open. The rearward mat section includes a reinforcement plate which, in a preferred embodiment, is located between upper and lower foam layers. The reinforcement plate spans at least thirty percent of the entire rear mat section and, in a preferred embodiment at least eighty percent of the lateral aspect of the rearward mat section. This plate permits the user to place his or her knee on a region atop the reinforcement plate and keep the exercise mat flat as he or she lifts his or her thigh above the exercise plane defined by the enlarged mat system. To provide tension and resist the upward movement of the user's thigh, the exercise mat includes an expansible exercise link having one end strapped to the thigh of the user and having the other end removably coupled to a mat mounted coupler.
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Donnelly Jerome
Kain, Jr. Robert C.
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