FR2839455A1 - Body training apparatus comprises flexible ground mat to which elastic cables with handles are fastened - Google Patents

Abstract

The training apparatus consists of a flexible ground mat (1) to which are fastened elastic cables (5) provided with handles (6) or Velcro (7) constituting user gripping parts.

Description

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  -1 The present invention relates to gymnastic equipment sometimes called "exercisers" for the 'execution by the user of muscular physical exercises

  as part of group muscle building courses.

  There are many types of training apparatus or equipment used in collective muscle building courses such as bars, dumbbells or band extenders, elastic ropes and exercise equipment, these equipment at often high prices, with rigid elements which compose them (difficulty of arrangement), and in the sometimes insecure character, allow only a pallet of relatively reduced exercises, it can occur in the long term a weariness of the

  users (impression of always participating in the same courses).

  In addition, the quality of certain exercises in this type of course is not satisfactory

  on the part of resistance directions not appropriate to the work being sought.

  There has also been a generation of equipment intended for muscular work for the past ten years by actuating elastics attached to a base, but these equipment having a reduced number of gripping members (handles) only allow a few basic exercises and little varies, real problem for an educator

  sportsman to organize varied and changing courses.

  This equipment having a certain size, and an exaggeratedly high cost can not really claim their use in collective course in the rooms.

fitness.

  The device according to the invention makes it possible to remedy the drawbacks exposed, it is a floor mat to which fixed wind elastic bands provided with handles allow the user to vary the directions of the resistance during the execution of the exercises.

muscle strengthening.

  This inexpensive equipment, made of soup and light materials (easy storage), allows the realization of about fifty exercises, for many not previously achievable in this type of course, but also to improve the quality of

already known exercises.

  These advantages make it a material mainly intended for intensive use for a new generation of collective muscle building classes in the gym.

fitness.

  The user places the carpet on the ground, the rubber bands outside, places a step (sort of step, element external to the creation) on the carpet, positions himself sitting, standing or lying on the step, grasps the handles, and can then execute movements with the

elastic resistance.

  -2 According to particular modes of realization: - The points of attachment of the rubber bands can vary on the carpet, tent

  quantitatively than by their locations.

  - The length of the elastic bands can be modified in order to increase or decrease the range of motion. - The diameter of the rubber bands can vary in order to increase or

to reduce the resistance.

  - The area of the carpet may vary depending on the size of the step intended to be placed on it. The characteristics of the invention and other advantages will become apparent in the light of the

  description which follows and for the intelligence of which we refer to the drawing, the

  single figure shows a preferential example of embodiment of a device according to the invention. The device represented in the single figure consists of a rectangular carpet (1) of tarpaulin type with a density greater than 600 grams / M2 exceeding the surface area of the STEP intended to be placed on it, flexible, the carpet (1) follows the shape STEP during

  pull-ups performed by performing the movements.

  The mat (1) has small openings in non-limiting numbers intended for passage

  elastic bands (5) of elastic cable type and at least 200% stretchy.

  At the orifices of the carpet (1), small rectangular pieces (3) drilled in the middle in PVC or wind rubber juxtaposed and fixed with rivets (4) so

  to increase the resistance at the orifices of the mat (1).

  Metal eyelets (2) are placed at the orifices of small rectangular pieces (3) and the orifices of the carpet (1), these metal eyelets (2) allow the

passage of rubber bands (5).

  The elastic bands (5) pass through the eyelets (2) and are stopped under the carpet (1) by a

  circular piece of metal, the diameter of which slightly exceeds that of the eyelets (2).

  At the upper end of the elastic bands (5) are the PVC handles (6)

  intended to be held in the hands of the user.

  The rectangular piece of fabric (7) which has a velcro system is intended to be

  attached to the user's ankle.

  The press buttons (8) and the eyelets (9) wind intended for the storage of the device, the mat (1) is folded back on itself, the press buttons (8) adhere against each other, The device can then be hung on the wall by the eyelets (9) to

its storage.

  By way of nonlimiting example, the lapis has dimensions of the order of 120 centimeters

  for the length and 60 centimeters for the width.

  The device according to the invention is particularly intended to be used in collective muscle building courses in fitness centers and under the supervision of a professional. -4

Claims (3)

CLAIM   1 / Muscle strengthening and maintenance device, characterized by the fact that it consists of a flexible mat (1), provided with small orifices allowing passage elastics (5).   2 / Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the elastics (5) S wind arrives under the carpet (1) and provided at their upper ends with handles (6)   constitute a gripping member for the user.   3 / Apparatus according to claim I characterized in that the mat (1) is shaped