Exercise shoe with limited range of rocking motion
AssigneeProstretch, Inc.
InventorChristopher J. B. Smith, IV
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Abstract
An improved exercise shoe including a generally semi-circular base for engaging a support surface on which the exercise shoe rocks with a range of rocking motion, the improvement providing the exercise shoe with a more limited range, particularly a variable more limited range of rocking motion. The more limited range of rocking motion includes a more limited range of forward rocking motion and a more limited range of rearward rocking motion, and particularly a variable more limited rearward range of rocking motion.
Claims12
In an exercise shoe including a generally semi-circular base for engaging a support surface on which said exercise shoe rocks, said exercise shoe having a range of rocking motion, WHEREIN THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISES:
- said shoe provided with variable means for providing said exercise shoe with a plurality of more limited ranges of rocking motion.
In an exercise shoe including a generally semi-circular base for engaging a support surface on which said exercise shoe rocks with a range of rocking motion, and said shoe further including heel and ball receiving surfaces for respectively receiving the heel and ball of the foot of a person, WHEREIN THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISES:
- variable rocking motion limiting means for being secured to said exercise shoe and for providing said exercise shoe with a plurality of more limited ranges of rocking motion.
In an exercise shoe including a generally semi-circular base for engaging a support surface on which said exercise shoe rocks with a range of rocking motion, said base including opposed side portions, said exercise shoe further including a support member extending generally upwardly from said base and heel and ball support platforms for respectively receiving the heel and ball of the foot of a person, said heel and ball support platforms mounted on said support member and disposed at an acute included angle with respect to each other,
- WHEREIN THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISES:
- a frame for being secured to said exercise shoe, said frame including a plurality of connecting bars and a pair of rails, said connecting bars for mounting said rails opposed to each other and to said opposed side portions of said base, and said rails having outwardly extending opposed forward and rearward end portions and upon said exercise shoe rocking on said support surface, said opposed forward and rearward end portions of said rails alternately engaging said support surface to limit said range of rocking motion of said exercise shoe to a more limited range of rocking motion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.