Adapting structure for exercise machines
AssigneeParamount Health Equipment Corp.
InventorHarvey C. Voris
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Abstract
A pair of adaptors each has a tubular structure mountable to a gripping portion of a press bar for rotation between substantially opposite conditions. The adaptors are provided with opposed structures for engaging a user's shoulders and the bottoms of a user's feet, respectively, to perform distinct exercises in the two conditions. Rotational motion of the tubular structures permits a preselected limited range of movement of the adaptors so as to shoulder engaging portions of the adaptors to engage the shoulders of a user when in one position of rotation and to engage the feet of a user when in another position of rotation.
Claims10
Apparatus for aiding in performing squat and leg press exercises on exercise machines having press bars actuable substantially vertically and terminating at two sides thereof in substantially cylindrical horizontal gripping portions, comprising:
- a pair of body engaging adaptors mounted on the respective gripping portions of said press bar, said adaptors being mirror images of each other, each said adaptor comprising:
- tubular means for transmitting a user's force, said tubular means slidably receivable over a gripping portion of the press bar and rotatable thereon between first and second substantially opposite positions for two different exercises;
- means for engaging the upper surface of a user's shoulder when in said first position of said tubular means;
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- means for engaging the sole of a user's foot in said second position of said tubular means;
- said shoulder engagement means and said foot engagement means being positioned essentially back to back and connected to said tubular means such that substantially upward forces may be applied to said shoulder engagement means during one exercise to said foot engagement means during a different exercise, said forces being directed substantially perpendicular to said tubular means;
- whereby substantially upward forces will be applied to the press bar of a weight machine through the shoulders or feet of a user when performing squat or leg press exercises, respectively.
Apparatus for performing squat and leg press exercises comprising:
- an exercise machine having a press bar actuable substantially vertically and terminating at two sides thereof in substantially cylindrical horizontal gripping portions;
- a pair of body engaging adaptors mounted on said gripping portions respectively, said adaptors being mirror images and each of said adaptors comprising:
- tubular means for transmitting a user's force, said tubular means slidably receivable over one of said gripping portions and rotatable thereon between first and second substantially opposite positions for the different exercises;
- means for engaging the upper surface of a user's shoulder when in said first position of said tubular means;
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- means for engaging the sole of a user's foot in said second position of said tubular means;
- said shoulder engagement means and said foot engagement means being positioned essentially back to back and connected to said tubular means such that substantially upward forces may be applied to said shoulder engagement means during one exercise and to said foot engagement means during a different exercise, said forces being directly substantially perpendicular to said tubular means;
- whereby substantially upward forces will be applied to said press bar through the shoulders or feet of a user when performing squat or leg press exercises, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.