Exercise and massage hoop
OwnerWendy I. Iversoninventor
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Abstract
A hoop device for aerobic exercise and massage that includes a rigid weighted core that is preferably constructed of a steel rod or tube that is configured into an annular shape and a sleeve constructed of a soft foam material that surrounds the core forming a hoop. The hoop is placed around a waist or other body part of a user to travel around the body part upon rotation providing exercise with the foam sleeve to cushion the effect of the core against the body. The sleeve can also have circumferential ribs separated by circumferential troughs to provide knob-like undulations to massage the user while rotating the device around his or her body.
Claims19
A method of aerobic exercise and massage, comprising the steps of:
- (a) placing a hoop around a body part of a user wherein said hoop is formed by a rigid core of a first material and an outer sleeve of a soft foam material loosely fitted about said core;
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- (b) rotating said hoop by movement of the user so that it travels around the body part of the user.
A device adapted for exercising a human body, comprising:
- (a) a core configured in an annular shape and constructed of a first material that is rigid;
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- (b) a movable sleeve surrounding said core and constructed of a second material that is soft, said sleeve has an external surface that is undulated in construction to provide protrusions on a radially inward portion thereof, whereby the core and sleeve define a hoop that adapted to be placed around a body part of a user and rotated by movement of the body, said core operative to supply weight for exercising the body part and said sleeve operative to cushion the effect of said core against said body part upon rotation therearound.
A hoop that may be placed around a body part of a user and rotated by movement of the body, comprising:
- (a) a core configured in an annular shape and constructed of a first material that is rigid and operative to supply weight for exercising the body part;
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- (b) a sleeve surrounding said core and constructed of a second material that is soft and includes a rib that spirals around the hoop.
A method of forming an exercise device comprising the steps of:
- (a) forming an elongated member having opposite ends into an annular shape;
- (b) inserting said member into a sleeve of foam material that has opposite sleeve ends and that is sized and adapted to be movably disposed about said member;
- (c) welding the ends of said member together after said member is inserted into said sleeve;
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- (d) joining said sleeve ends together after the ends of said member are welded together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.