Training apparatus imitating cross-country skiing
AssigneeJTO Holding ApS
InventorJonas Thor Olsen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus for exercising the human body comprising a stiff frame accommodating at least two guide tracks and at least one carriage in each guide track, at least one resistance unit, preferably attached to the frame, and for each carriage: a substantially inelastic cord drive system connecting said carriage with said at least one resistance unit, and an elastic cord drive system connecting the substantially inelastic cord drive system with the frame. Specific use of the apparatus according to the invention imitates the pattern of movements in cross-country skiing.
Claims26
An apparatus for exercising the human body comprising:
- a stiff frame accommodating at least two guide tracks and at least one carriage in each guide track,
- at least one resistance unit, attached to the frame, and
- for each carriage:
- a substantially inelastic cord drive system connecting said carriage with said at least one resistance unit, and
- an elastic cord drive system connecting the substantially inelastic cord drive system with the frame.
A method for exercising the human body by engaging a resistance unit by means of repeatedly stroking one or both of two hand-held poles, each of said poles mounted on a carriage arranged in a guide track on a stiff frame, wherein
- the first part of a pole stroke translates the attached carriage backwards from a starting point on the guide track, thereby engaging the resistance unit by means of a substantially inelastic cord drive system attached to the carriage,
- the second and last part of a pole stroke automatically returns the carriage to the starting point by means of an elastic cord drive system connected to the frame,
- said substantially inelastic cord drive system and said elastic cord drive system connected to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.