OAR-BUFF: A full body exercise system that produces greater benefits than weights or gym machines and doesn't use dangerous potential or kinetic energy

A method of exercising the body, comprising:

• 7. (a) providing at least two elements, each having at least one surface portion in friction-producing contact with at least one surface portion of at least one other of said at least two elements, with at least one of said surface portions able to be slid or rotated or passed along a mutual interface of the said surface portion in contact with it,
• 8. (b) the apparatus of claim 6 further comprising providing at least one of said surface portions in forced contact to either be substantially planar or a convex or concave portion selected from the group consisting of sphere and cylinder and cone,
• 9. (c) the apparatus of claim 6 further comprising providing that said elements having said surfaces in forced contact have said surfaces held together during exercise by way of at least one effect or device that is selected from the group consisting of magnetism and gravitational force and vacuum and motors and solenoids and piezoelectric materials and pneumatic cylinders and gas pressure and liquid pressure and screws and springs and elastic bands and levers and cams and wedges and equivalents of said at least one effect or device,
• 10. (d) the apparatus of claim 6 further comprising inputting information used in controlling said friction-producing forced contact by way of a device selected from the group consisting of speech processor and gyroscope and accelerometer and computer and optical movement sensor and sound detector and brainwave processor and eye movement processor and electrical switch and pressure sensitive resistor and rheostat and capacitance detector and telephone and optical or acoustic ranging/locating system and equivalents thereof,
• 11. (e) the apparatus of claim 6 further comprising conveying manually a user's urging to at least one said element of the at least two said elements by way of an implement or construction selected from the group consisting of lever and bar and arbor and crank arm and belt and flexible member under tension and handhold and hand/foot placement zone and foot/ankle attaching device.
• Whereby exercise can occur.

A bodily exercise system that can operate in three dimensions and can be controlled automatically, comprising:

• 13. The exercise system of claim 12 wherein at least one surface portion on each of a plurality of elements is held in friction-generating contact with at least one other of said surface portions while there is relative movement between them.
• 14. The exercise system of claim 13 wherein at least one of said surface portions is either convex or concave or planar and is chosen from the group consisting of sphere and cylinder and cone and plane.
• 15. The exercise system of claim 13 wherein at least one of the said surface portions is held in contact with at least one other of said surface portions by way of an effect or device chosen from the group consisting of magnetism and vacuum and gravitational force and motors and solenoids and pneumatic cylinders and air cylinders and liquid pressure and screws and levers and cams and springs and elastic bands and equivalents of said effect or device.
• 16. The exercise system of claim 13 wherein at least one of said surfaces of the said at least one element is caused to undergo its said relative movement by an urging device chosen from the group consisting of lever and bar and arbor and crank arm and flexible device under tension and handhold and foot or ankle attachment or zone.
• 17. The exercise system of claim 12 wherein said automatic control is brought about by at least one device chosen from the group consisting of speech processor and gyroscope and accelerometer and optical movement sensor and computer and cell phone and electrical device and equivalents.
• 18. The exercise system of claim 17 wherein said speech processor and computer or equivalent can recognize and carry out commands that are either factory preset or remotely issued or user defined in order to control said friction generated at said surfaces.
• 19. The exercise system of claim 17 wherein said gyroscope, accelerometer or optical movement sensor or equivalent tracks and reports to said computer or equivalent the amount and direction of movement of either said urging device or the at least one said surface.
• 20. The exercise system of claim 17 wherein said automatic control is performed by a computing device or equivalent that utilizes a timing program and/or receives and interprets data from said speech processor or gyroscope or optical movement sensor, said computing device then controlling said effect or device that holds said mated surfaces in various degrees of frictional contact.