Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing weight resistance
Patent
1997-05-16
1998-09-29
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing weight resistance
482 6, 482 24, 482110, A63B 2106
Patent
active
058139516
ABSTRACT:
A single-station type total body exercise and rehabilitation weight-lifting machine and method of selectively recruiting, isolating, and maximally contracting a specific segment of a target muscle or task-specific synergistic segments of different muscles using the machine are presented. The exercise and rehabilitation machine is designed to provide resistance to variable force vectors in all directions. The machine comprises a weight support member mounted in a box-shaped main support frame. The rear end of the weight support member is multi-pivotally connected through a "sliding box" adjustment device to the rear of the main support frame while the front end of the weight support member is supported by a vertically adjustable roller bar support member of the main support frame. The weight support member can be oriented at many angles using the combined adjustments for the sliding box adjustment device and roller bar support member. The force required to move the weight support member may be infinitely varied by adding or removing weight plate members. The user is not limited to working against a single directional force but may create a resistance force in any direction and perform multiple exercises using only one machine. Since different muscle segments create different force vectors, the user can selectively train a particular muscle segment or synergistic segments of different muscles by selecting the force vector on the machine against which the user must work.
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Apley Richard J.
Mulcahy John
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