Aerobic resistance exercise garment

In a method of performing an exercise program wherein the user does a primary exercise involving the repeated back and forth limb movement of the arms, the improvement being in that the user wears a garment having a first connecting section on the moving limb and having a second connecting section on the trunk of the user's body at a location remote from the armpit, providing a web which spans and is connected to the first and second connecting sections with at least one of the web and connecting sections being made of a stretchable and resilient material, providing resistance to the moving limb by the stretchable material stretching and resisting the movement of the limb when the connecting sections are relatively moved away from each other, providing the resistance along a length of the moving limb directly across the space to the trunk of the user's body, and returning the stretchable material toward its unstretched condition when the connecting sections are relatively moved toward each other, and repeating the stretching and returning of the stretchable material throughout the repeated back and forth limb movements.

In a method of performing an exercise program wherein the user does a primary exercise involving the repeated back and forth limb movement of the arms or legs, the improvement being in that the user wears a garment having a first connecting section on the moving limb and having a second connecting section on another part of the user's body, providing a web which spans and is connected to the first and second connecting sections with at least one of the web and connecting sections being made of a stretchable and resilient material, providing resistance to the moving limb by the stretchable material stretching and resisting the movement of the limb when the connecting sections are relatively moved away from each other, returning the stretchable material toward its unstretched condition when the garment including sleeves and an upper trunk portion and the web is connected to and spans the space between one of the sleeves and the upper trunk portion, and the limb movement including swinging the arms.

An exercise garment for supplementing an arm movement exercise program, comprising an upper body trunk portion for being worn on at least a portion of the upper body of the trunk of the user, a limb portion for being worn on the arm of the user, said limb portion including a joint portion for being at about the elbow of the arm of the user and said limb portion including an armpit portion, a web connected to said limb portion at at least two spaced locations between said joint portion and said armpit portion, said web spanning across and being connected to said trunk portion at a location remote from said armpit portion, and said web being made entirely of a stretchable, resilient material for creating resistance to the movement of the arm away from the trunk during an exercise program whereby said material may repeatedly stretch during the movement of the arm away from the trunk and said material repeatedly returns toward its unstretched condition when the arm moves toward the trunk.

In a method of performing an exercise program wherein the user does a primary exercise involving the repeated back and forth movement of the user's legs, the improvement being in that the user wears a garment having a first connecting section on one leg and having a second connecting section on the other leg, providing a web which spans and is connected to the first and second connecting sections with at least one of the web and connecting sections being made of a stretchable and resilient material, providing resistance to the moving legs by the stretchable material stretching and resisting the movement of the legs when the connecting sections are relatively moved away from each other, providing the resistance along a length of the moving legs directly across the space between the legs, and returning the stretchable material toward its unstretched condition when the connecting sections are relatively moved toward each other, and repeating the stretching and returning of the stretchable material throughout the repeated back and forth leg movements.