Device for Strengthening Inner Abdominal Muscles
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Abstract
An exercise apparatus for effecting transverse abdominis and inner abdominal muscle exercise, includes a back support and an arm exercising assembly. The arm exercising assembly comprising a gripping bar having gripping portions for gripping by the user's hands, and which is coupled to a resistance assembly. The gripping bar is reciprocally movable against the biasing force from a first raised position, where said gripping bar is forward and outwardly above said user's shoulders, and a second lowered position spaced forwardly outwardly above the user's torso. The resilient biasing force is selected on multidirectional force having an upward biasing component, a downward biasing component independent thereof, and a resilient rearward biasing component all acting in concert.
Claims27
An exercise apparatus operable to effect transverse abdominis and/or inner abdominal muscle exercise, the apparatus comprising,
- a back support for supporting a user in an exercising position with said user's spine juxtaposed thereagainst,
- an arm exercising assembly actuable to exercise arm muscles of said user when in said exercising position, said arm exercising assembly including,
- an elongated gripping bar having gripping portions for gripping by a respective one of said user's hands, and a resistance assembly coupled to the gripping bar and providing a resilient biasing force thereon,
- the gripping bar being selectively reciprocally movable by said user against the resilient biasing force along a path between a first raised position, wherein said gripping bar is spaced forwardly a distance outwardly above said user's shoulders, and a second lowered position wherein said gripping bar is spaced forwardly a distance outwardly above said user's torso or abdomen, the resilient biasing force comprising a multidirectional force which includes a resilient upward biasing component, optionally a resilient downward biasing component independent of said upward biasing component, and a resilient rearward biasing component independent of said upward biasing component, and said downward biasing component, wherein when the gripping bar is moved to the first raised position, the resistance mechanism resiliently biasing the gripping bar simultaneously at least rearwardly and upwardly.
An exercise apparatus assembly for exercising transverse abdominis and/or inner abdominal muscles in a user, the apparatus comprising,
- a generally horizontal back support for supporting a user in an exercising position with said user's spine resting substantially horizontally thereon,
- an arm exercising assembly actuable to exercise the user's arm muscles when in said exercising position, said arm exercising assembly including,
- a gripping bar having a pair of spaced handle grip portions for gripping by a respective hand of said user,
- a resistance assembly coupling the gripping bar for movement relative to the back support, the resistance assembly including a plurality of resiliently deformable members providing a multidirectional biasing force on said gripping bar, the gripping bar being selectively movable by said user along a generally arcuate path between a first position, wherein said gripping bar is moved forwardly outward a distance vertically above the user's shoulders, and a second position wherein said gripping bar is pivoted downwardly to a position spaced vertically above said user's abdomen,
- wherein when said gripping bar is in said first position,
- a first said resiliently deformable member providing a first resilient biasing force thereon to resiliently bias the gripping bar towards upward and rearward movement, and a second said resiliently deformable member providing a second resilient biasing force thereon independent of the first resilient biasing force to resiliently bias the gripping bar towards vertically rearward movement.
An exercise apparatus operable to effect internal abdominal muscle exercise in a user, the apparatus comprising,
- a generally horizontal back support for supporting a user in a substantially horizontal exercising position thereon,
- an arm exercising assembly actuable to exercise the user's arm muscles when in said exercising position, said arm exercising assembly including a pair of spaced handle grip portions, the handle grip portions for gripping by a respective hand of said user with his or her arms in a substantially outstretched position,
- a resistance assembly including a plurality of resiliently deformable members providing independently a respective multidirectional biasing force on said handle grip portions, wherein said handle grip portions are selectively movable by said user against said biasing force along a generally arcuate path between a first position, wherein said handle grip portions are moved forwardly an outward distance vertically above the user's shoulders, and a second position, wherein said handle grip portions are moved downwardly to a position vertically above said user's abdomen or torso, and
- the resistance assembly including first and second resiliently deformable members wherein when said handle grip portions are moved to said first position,
- the first said resiliently deformable member providing a first resilient biasing force to resiliently bias the handle grip portions in upward and rearward movement, and the second said resiliently deformable member providing a second independent resilient biasing force to resiliently bias the handle grip portions in rearward movement, and
- wherein when said handle grip portions are moved to said second position, the first resiliently deformable member providing said first resilient biasing force to resiliently bias the handle grip portions in said upward and rearward movement, and
- the second resiliently deformable member providing said second resilient biasing force to resiliently bias the handle grip portions in at least said rearward movement.
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