US 7,556,592 B2Granted

Method of using exercise apparatus for simulating skating movement

AssigneeTechnogym International B.V.

InventorNash Nizam

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Abstract

An exercise apparatus used to simulate skating or roller blading movement in a user includes a pair of sleds or shuttles which include a pedal adapted to support the foot of a user standing thereon. The shuttles are movable along a respective guide assembly consisting of one or more rails which curve away from each other extending from proximate forwardmost ends, outwardly and rearwardly. The rail assemblies are provided in a substantially mirror arrangement and curve downwardly from their respective forwardmost ends to a lowermost distal portion. A guide member is provided to assist in positioning and maintaining the shuttles in sliding movement along each guide assembly, whereby the reciprocal sliding movement of the shuttles along an associated guide assembly acts to guide the feet of the user in skating or roller blade movement.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A method of using an exercise apparatus to simulate skating or roller blading movement in a user, said apparatus including,

a pair of shuttles, each of said shuttles supporting a foot of said user standing thereon,
a pair of independently movable guide assemblies, each guide assembly supporting and substantially limiting an associated one of said shuttles in reciprocal movement along a respective associated predetermined path, and wherein said shuttles are movable along said associated predetermined path in a direction away from the other in a generally mirror arrangement from raised proximal upper position and curving rearwardly and extending downwardly to a lower distal position spaced vertically below said upper position,
wherein, with said user standing with each foot on an associated shuttle in a generally forward facing position, said user pushing a first said foot against said associated shuttle so as to move therewith along said associated predetermined path from said proximal upper position to said lower distal position, and thereafter pushing the second other said foot against said associated shuttle to move therewith along said associated predetermined path from said proximal upper position to said lower distal position,
and whereby alternating reciprocal movement of said user's feet with said associated shuttles along said associated predetermined paths moves the feet of a user thereon in generally simulating skating or roller blading movement.

1 more element

A method using an exercise apparatus to simulate leg exercising movement in a user, said apparatus extending generally in a front-to-back direction and including,

a pair of shuttles, each of said shuttles supporting a foot of said user standing thereon,
a pair of guide assemblies, each guide assembly movably supporting an associated one of said shuttles in reciprocal movement along a respective associated predetermined path, each of said predetermined paths extending away from the other in a generally mirror arrangement about a central plane of the apparatus from a raised proximal upper portion and curving rearwardly and extending downwardly to a lower distal portion and wherein said shuttles are movable along said associated predetermined path between a forward raised proximal upper position arid a rearward lower distal position,
wherein, with said user standing with each foot on an associated shuttle in a generally forward facing position facing the front of the apparatus, sequentially shifting the user's weight to push a first said foot against said associated shuttle so as to move therewith along said associated predetermined path from said proximal upper position to said lower distal position, and thereafter push the second other said foot against said associated shuttle to move therewith along said associated predetermined path from said proximal upper position to said lower distal position,
and whereby said user's feet are alternatingly reciprocally moved with said associated shuttles along said associated predetermined paths to move each foot of the user from the raised proximal upper position where the foot is spaced towards the front of the apparatus to the lower distal position moved downwardly and rearwardly therefrom,
wherein each said guide assemblies includes a rigid arm member pivotally mounted for pivoting movement relative to pivot axis,
whereby movement of each shuttle along its associated path rotates its associated arm member about said pivot axis.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/511,422Filed 29 Aug 2006 · continuation
Priority: CA 24665437 May 2004
Published: US 2006/0287168 A121 Dec 2006
Granted: 7 Jul 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification24 codes

A63B 21/055
Using resilient force-resisters: extension element type
A63B 21/157
Arrangements for force transmissions: ratchet-wheel links; Overrunning clutches; One-way clutches
A63B 21/225
Resisting devices with rotary bodies: with flywheels
A63B 22/00
Exercising apparatus specially adapted for conditioning the cardio-vascular system, for training agility

Family

Application60/237,387Us provisional application · filed 4 Oct 2000
Application09/909,020Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 20 Jul 2001
Application10/873,254Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jun 2004
US 6,786,850 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 7 Sep 2004
US 2006/0287168 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Dec 2006
US 7,115,073 B2Parent of this continuation
Application10/873,254Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2002/0042329 A1Published application
US 2004/0241631 A1Published application
US 7,556,592 B2This patent

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