JP6748994B2 - Exercise equipment using a ball - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an exercise tool using a ball, and particularly to an exercise tool used for exercise suitable for postpartum care.

Balance balls are used in fields such as health, sports, medical care, and education. There are various types of balance balls, ranging in size from about 20 cm to over 100 cm, including hardness and shape. Generally, a large and soft balance ball that can be seated is widely used. The balance ball is used by itself as an exercise tool for various exercises, but an exercise tool having a form suitable for a specific exercise using the ball has also been proposed.

For example, in Patent Document 1, a body band that has elasticity and is attached to a body, a ball fixing member provided in a substantially central portion of the body band, and fixed in the body axis direction by the ball fixing member. A ball and a spine strengthening device consisting of the ball have been proposed. This back strength strengthening device does not strengthen the back muscle strength by sports such as stretching exercise and tinning, or exercise, and enables the elderly person to easily and safely strengthen the back muscle strength. Is said to be able to be corrected.

Further, in Patent Document 2, two rectangular balls made of natural rubber are put in a rectangular bag made of elastic towel cloth, and both ends are squeezed. An acupoint ball having a portion has been proposed. It is said that this acupoint ball can be applied to acupressure points such as back pain and stiff shoulders that are difficult to reach to relieve muscle aches. Patent Document 3 proposes a stretch ball formed by connecting spherical urethane balls. This stretch ball is said to be able to improve stiff shoulders and low back pain.

JP 2013-17579 JP JP 2014-97273 JP JP 2013-146518 JP

The acupuncture point ball described in Patent Document 2 or the stretch ball described in Patent Document 3 presses the ball portion against the waist or the side by the hand of a person, and presses a required portion with a necessary pressing force. However, there is a problem in that it is not easy and the desired portion cannot be pressed effectively. On the other hand, the back muscle force strengthening device described in Patent Document 1 has a structure in which a required pressing force is easily applied to the back muscles, but strengthening of parts other than the back muscles is not considered. Further, there is no suggestion of an exercise tool using such a ball that can provide postnatal care.

On the other hand, regarding exercise using a balance ball, various exercise methods such as exercise to cultivate a sense of balance, abdominal muscles and core training have been proposed, but an attempt to perform postnatal care by exercise using a balance ball has been made. There is. The majority of postpartum care is only one month postnatal checkup, and promotion and enhancement of postpartum care are required.

Balance balls allow you to perform aerobic exercise without overloading your legs, waist, or joints, and exercise using balance balls can cause postpartum urine leakage, lack of sleep, low back pain, or physical and mental burden associated with raising children. It is said that the above can be reduced. Exercises using balance balls have been shown to be effective, and there is a need for exercise equipment that uses balls that can provide more effective postnatal care, or exercise equipment that uses balls that are suitable for postnatal care. ..

In view of such conventional problems, the present invention is an exercise tool mainly for postpartum care, in which the body shape does not return, the abdomen and waist cannot be fat removed, pelvic opening, postpartum such as stiff shoulders and low back pain. It is an object of the present invention to propose an exercise tool using a ball and an exercise method using the ball, which can safely and comfortably improve and eliminate the physical problems of the child while raising a child.

An exercise tool according to the present invention has an ellipsoidal ball, a cover that accommodates the ball, and a belt that attaches the cover that accommodates the ball to a person.
The cover accommodating the ball is attached to a person such that the major axis direction of the ball is oriented in either the body axis direction of the person or the direction perpendicular thereto.

In the above invention, the cover may have a string through which the belt is inserted in the long axis direction of the ball and the direction perpendicular to the long axis direction.

The cover may have a bag shape that conforms to the outer shape of the ball, has an opening that opens left and right along the meridian, and has gathers in the pole forming portion. Then, in this cover, opening and closing along the meridian of the cover extends in a tongue shape from one end portion of the bag-shaped cover main body portion along the meridian and is wound around the other end portion of the cover main body portion along the meridian line. It can be performed by a surface fastener composed of one fastener and another fastener provided on the back surface of the other end portion of the cover main body portion that meshes with the one fastener.

It is also preferable that a decorative button is provided at the top of the pole forming portion of the cover.

The belt may be belt-shaped and have a pair of retaining rings at one end.

By using the above-mentioned exercise equipment, it is attached to a person's back or waist so that the long axis direction of the ball is oriented in the body axis direction or the direction perpendicular thereto, and is stretched by pressing it against the wall surface, the back surface of the chair or the floor surface. It can be performed. Also, it can be attached so as to be sandwiched between the legs of a person and both legs can be opened and closed.

By using the exercise equipment according to the present invention, stretching safely and comfortably while raising a child, performing exercises for opening and closing both legs, etc., the body shape does not return, the abdomen and hips cannot remove fat, pelvic opening, stiff shoulders and It is possible to improve and eliminate postpartum physical problems such as low back pain. Further, the exercise equipment according to the present invention can be used for light training or shaping of the back, waist or knees.

It is drawing which shows the exercise|movement tool which concerns on this invention. It is drawing of the cover in the exercise equipment shown in FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of use of the exercise equipment shown in FIG. 1.

Embodiments for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an exercise equipment according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, an exercise tool according to the present invention includes an ellipsoidal ball 10, a cover 20 for containing the ball 10, and a belt 30 for attaching the cover 20 containing the ball 10 to a person. The cover 20 accommodating the ball 10 is adapted to be attached to a person so that the major axis direction of the ball 10 is oriented in either the body axis direction of the person or the direction perpendicular thereto.

As shown in FIG. 1C, the ball 10 has an ellipsoidal shape and is hollow. The ball 10 preferably has a length ratio of its major axis to its minor axis of 1.5 to 2.0. The length of the minor axis is preferably 100 to 200 mm. Further, the ball 10 is preferably made of an elastic and soft material, and for example, a ball made of butyl rubber can be used. The air pressure of the ball 10 is preferably 1 to 10 kPa. Further, it is preferable that the surface of the ball 10 has a pattern 15 that forms irregularities. Such a ball 10 is easily attached to the back portion so that its major axis is in the body axis direction, and is also easily attached to the knee portion. Further, the ball 10 is easily attached to the waist so that the major axis thereof is perpendicular to the body axis direction. Then, the stretching exercise of the back or the waist or the exercise of opening and closing both legs of the knee can be safely performed in a stable state. In the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1C, the end of the major axis of the ball 10 is a pole, and the portion of the ball 10 sandwiched between the plane indicated by the alternate long and short dash line and the pole is a pole forming portion, A linear portion connecting both poles along the outer circumference of the ball 10 is defined as a meridian. The cover 20 described below is similar to the ball 10.

As shown in FIG. 2, the cover 20 has an elliptical shape along the outer shape of the ball 10 and has a bag shape. The ball 10 can be opened and closed left and right (up and down in FIG. 2A) along the meridians 21a and 21b, so that the ball 10 can be taken in and out through the opening 23. The cover 20 includes a cover main body 21 and pole forming portions 22 on the left and right ends thereof. It is preferable that the pole forming portion 22 has gathers.

In order to close the cover 20, as shown in FIG. 2A, one end of the bag-shaped cover main body 21 along the meridian extends in a tongue shape and is wrapped around the other end of the cover main body 21. The fastener 25a can be engaged with the surface fastener 25 including the other fastener 25b provided on the back surface of the other end portion along the meridian of the cover main body that meshes with the fastener 25a. The cover 20 only needs to be able to open and close along the meridian, and may be, for example, a line fastener.

The cover 20 also has a string 24. As shown in FIG. 2B, the string thread 24 of the present example includes a pair of string thread 24A in the long axis direction and another pair of thread string 24B in the direction perpendicular to the long axis. The string 24 may be a cross-shaped integral type as shown in FIG.

The present exercise equipment can perform both legs open/close exercise while being sandwiched between the knees, and during such exercise, exercise is performed while paying attention to the exercise equipment for a while. Therefore, if gathers are provided on the pole forming portion 22 of the cover 20 and the decorative buttons 27 are provided on the poles that are the apexes of the pole forming portion 22, it is effective that the line of sight can be aligned with these to perform exercise.

The belt 30 may be any belt as long as the present exercise equipment can be reliably attached to different parts around the waist such as the back, waist or knees, and the ball 10 can be fixed during use without slipping. For example, as shown in FIG. 1B, it is preferable that the belt-like member has a pair of retaining rings 35 at one end. Thus, the exercise device can be fixed to a predetermined portion by sandwiching and tightening any one of the band-shaped portions between the pair of retaining rings 35 according to the portion to which the exercise device is attached.

The exercise equipment can be used as shown in FIG. The example shown in FIG. 3A is an example in which the exercise equipment is attached to the back so that the long axis direction of the ball is the body axis direction, and the ball is used by sitting on a chair and pressing the ball against the back of the chair. FIG. 3B shows an example in which the exercise tool is attached to the back so that the long axis direction of the ball is at right angles to the body axis direction and sitting on a chair, but the ball is pressed against the wall for use. In the postures shown in FIGS. 3(a) and 3(b), while conscious of the ball on the back, the ball is pressed against the chair or the wall and slowly exhaled by repeating the exercise to stretch the back. Is good. By attaching this exercise equipment to the waist, the waist can be stretched. The ball can also be pressed against the floor surface for use.

FIG. 3C shows an example in which the user lies on his back and opens his knees lightly, the belt is wound around the thighs with the ball sandwiched between the thighs, and the exercise equipment is fixed to the knees. In this case, tighten your inner thighs while exhaling while keeping your hips and hips on the floor, and then open your legs with conscious attention to the hip abductor muscles. This exercise is repeated to open and close both legs. In addition, the ball can be sandwiched at various positions between the feet.

10 balls
15 patterns
20 cover
21 Cover body
22 pole forming part
23 opening
24, 24A, 24B string thread
25 hook-and-loop fastener
27 Decorative buttons
30 belt
35 retaining ring

Claims (6)

An ellipsoidal ball, a cover that accommodates the ball, and a belt that attaches the cover that accommodates the ball to a person,
The cover accommodating the ball is attached to a person such that the major axis direction of the ball is oriented in the body axis direction of the person or in a direction perpendicular to the body axis direction of the person. The exercise equipment according to claim 1, wherein the cover has a string through which the belt is inserted in a long axis direction of the ball and a direction orthogonal to the long axis direction. The cover has a bag shape that follows the outer shape of the ball, has an opening that is opened and closed to the left and right along the meridian, and has a gather in the pole forming portion. Exercise equipment. Opening and closing along the meridian of the cover, one fastener that extends in a tongue shape from one end along the meridian of the bag-shaped cover main body and is wound around the other end along the meridian of the cover main body, The exercise tool according to claim 3, wherein the exercise tool is a hook-and-loop fastener made of another fastener provided on the back surface of the other end portion of the cover main body portion that is engaged with the exercise tool. The exercise equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a decorative button is provided at the apex of the pole forming portion of the cover. The exercise device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the belt is belt-shaped and has a pair of retaining rings at one end thereof.

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