US 6,684,410 B2 · Athletic shorts

Abstract

Athletic Shorts are a tight fitted running shorts that improve the performance of running or walking by utilizing gravity as a source of energy. The shorts have elastic straps attached from the waist and extend across the front side of the leg to the bottom near the leg opening of the shorts. When standing straight up the elastic is elongated by the weight of the leg. The elongated elastic provides a pulling energy for the leg by contracting when moving up in a step of a walk or stride of a run. When the step or stride is lowered back to the ground the elastic is again elongated by the weight of the leg. The repeated action of the contraction and elongation of the elastic straps provide increased performance when walking or running. Leg Adjustment Straps around the bottom of the shorts are used to draw the shorts tight to the leg. Athletic Shorts increase performance when gauging time over a fixed distance utilizing gravity of the leg as a source of energy in the physical walking or running action.

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Dependent claims

Athletic Shorts worn by runners or walkers comprising:

one continuous elastic strap starting at the middle of the back of the waist line, wrapping around the waist to the front of the waist, running down the center of the front of the legs, looping around the back of the legs, and returning back up the legs to the front waist line then to the middle of the back of the waist of a tight fitted running short, and
belt loops and conduits sewn into the tight fitted running shorts at stress points or corners where the elastic strap has to make a turn for keeping the elastic straps in place, and
a tightening and loosening means of holding the bottom of the legs of the tight fitted running shorts in place, consisting of a leg adjustment.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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