Apparatus for polymetrically developing muscaluture and maintaining physical fitness

An invertable exercising apparatus for polymetrically developing the musculature and maintaining the physical fitness of a user, said apparatus comprising:

• upstanding, mutually parallel, elongated legs operable to rest upon a datum plane and arranged in opposed, coplanar pairs to coincide with apices of a circumscribing rectangle;
• body supporting means having opposed ends and being adjustably and disconnectably connected along the length of said legs for supporting the body of the user at selected elevations and orientations relative to said datum plane;
• equipment supporting means having opposed ends and being adjustably and disconnectably connected along the length of said legs for supporting at selected elevations relative to said datum plane equipment to be manipulated by the user;
• first connecting means connected to said body supporting means
• for independently adjustably and disconnectably connecting said opposed ends of said body supporting means to selected locations along the length of said legs of said opposed, coplanar pairs to rigidly maintain said body supporting means in a selected spatial and orientational relation with said equipment supporting means during the performance of a first exercising routine by a user, and
• for continuously resisting movement of said body supporting means relative to said legs in both vertical directions therealong;
• second connecting means connected to said equipment supporting means
• for independently adjustably and disconnectably connecting said opposed ends of said equipment supporting means to selected locations along the length of said legs of said opposed, coplanar pairs to rigidly maintain said equipment supporting means in a selected spatial and orientational relation with said body supporting means during the performance of a first exercising routine by a user, and
• for continuously resisting movement of said equipment supporting means relative to said legs in both vertical directions therealong;
• first means for engaging a ground surface, said first engaging means being carried in a generally coplanar posture by first coplanar extremes of said legs to engage the datum plane upon which said legs rest during said first exercising routine conducted while said body supporting means and said equipment supporting means are maintained in said selected spatial and orientational relation by said first and second connecting means;
• second means for engaging a ground surface, said second engaging means being carried in a generally coplanar posture by second coplanar extremes of said legs to engage the datum plane upon which said legs rest during a second exercising routine conducted after said exercising apparatus has been inverted and thus reoriented 180.degree. relative to the datum plane and without altering said selected spatial and orientational relation between said body supporting means and said equipment supporting means being continually maintained by said first and second connecting means;
• said first connecting means comprising:
• a transverse member orthogonally and rigidly connected to each end of said body supporting means;
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• a collar rigidly connected to each end of each transverse member, and relatively closely and fully surrounding a portion of one leg of a coplanar pair of legs in sliding relation therewith to render each end of said body supporting means independently movable along the legs of the coplanar pair to incline said body supporting means at selected angles relative to the datum plane while concurrently rigidly resisting relative rotational movement between said body supporting means and said legs;
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• said first connecting means further comprising opposed, adjustable connecting means for connecting said body supporting means to each of said transverse members in vertically pivotable relation therewith, said adjustable connecting means being releasable to pivot about a horizontal axis as an end of said body supporting means is moved vertically along a coplanar pair of legs relative to the remaining end and thereafter lockable to maintain said body supporting means at a selected spatial and orientational relation to the datum plane and to concurrently maintain said legs in a vertical orientation.

An invertable exercising apparatus for polymetrically developing the musculature and maintaining the physical fitness of a user, said apparatus comprising:

• upstanding, mutually parallel, elongated legs operable to rest upon a datum plane and arranged in opposed, coplanar pairs to coincide with apices of a circumscribing rectangle;
• body supporting means having opposed ends and being adjustably and disconnectably connected along the length of said legs for supporting the body of the user at selected elevations and orientations relative to said datum plane;
• equipment supporting means having opposed ends and being adjustably and disconnectably connected along the length of said legs for supporting at selected elevations relative to said datum plane equipment to be manipulated by the user;
• first connecting means connected to said body supporting means
• for independently adjustably and disconnectably connecting said opposed ends of said body supporting means to selected locations along the length of said legs of said opposed, coplanar pairs to rigidly maintain said body supporting means in a selected spatial and orientational relation with said equipment supporting means during the performance of a first exercising routine by a user, and
• for continuously resisting movement of said body supporting means relative to said legs in both vertical directions therealong;
• second connecting means connected to said equipment supporting means
• for independently adjustably and disconnectably connecting said opposed ends of said equipment supporting means to selected locations along the length of said legs of said opposed, coplanar pairs to rigidly maintain said equipment supporting means in a selected spatial and orientational relation with said body supporting means during the performance of a first exercising routine by a user, and
• for continuously resisting movement of said equipment supporting means relative to said legs in both vertical directions therealong;
• first means for engaging a ground surface, said first engaging means being carried in a generally coplanar posture by first coplanar extremes of said legs to engage the datum plane upon which said legs rest during said first exercising routine conducted while said body supporting means and said equipment supporting means are maintained in said selected spatial and orientational relation by said first and second connecting means;
• second means for engaging a ground surface, said second engaging means being carried in a generally coplanar posture by second coplanar extremes of said legs to engage the datum plane upon which said legs rest during a second exercising routine conducted after said exercising apparatus has been inverted and thus reoriented 180.degree. relative to the datum plane and without altering said selected spatial and orientational relation between said body supporting means and said equipment supporting means being continually maintained by said first and second connecting means;
• said first connecting means comprising:
• a transverse member orthogonally and rigidly connected to each end of said body supporting means;
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• a collar rigidly connected to each end of each transverse member, and relatively closely and fully surrounding a portion of one leg of a coplanar pair of legs in sliding relation therewith to render each end of said body supporting means independently movable along the legs of the coplanar pair to incline said body supporting means at selected angles relative to the datum plane while concurrently ridigly resisting relative rotational movement between said body supporting means and said legs;
• said equipment supporting means comprising laterally spaced, parallel rails extending independently and individually between coplanar legs of opposed coplanar pairs;
• adjacent ends of said rails being connectable by said second connecting means to one of said coplanar pairs of legs at an elevation thereof below the connection therewith of said body supporting means;
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• the remaining ends of said rails being connected by said second connecting means to the other of said coplanar pairs of legs at an elevation thereof above the connection therewith of said body supporting means;
• said rails each being longitudinally telescoping in response to changes in the distance between coplanar pairs of legs incident to adjustment of the position of said body supporting means relative thereto and remain horizontal to the datum plane;
• said body supporting means comprising an elongated, padded platform of a width less than the width of the back of a typical user measured between the shoulder joints of said typical user, said platform being fully padded about the exterior thereof to protect the back of a user when used in either a normal orientation or an inverted orientation.