Fitness and training garment
AssigneeAthlotek LLC
InventorsLawrence Theodore Petrakis, Anagnostis E. Zachariades
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Abstract
A fitness garment or suit comprises at least one of a jacket or pants similar to an athletic truing suit. A detachable inner lining support various types of weights in distributed pattern about body portions, generally distributing the total load between joints to provide general fitness training while the user wears the suit throughout the course of their normal activities. The inner lining does not interfere with the drape and feel of the outer garment.
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A wearable garment system that comprises:
- a. an outer shell fabric adapted to fit at least one of a person's leg and the torso and arms,
- b. an inner lining detachable from the outer shell,
- c. detachable weights coupled to the inner lining,
- d. wherein the detachable weights are distributed in multiple position between at least the joints of limbs and the torso so as to not interfere with the drape of the outer shell in that would otherwise occur in the absence of the inner lining wherein the detachable weights are a plurality of metallic springs and further wherein inner lining is an elastic fabric and said metallic springs are uniformly dispersed within and coupled to the elastic fabric to enable biaxial stretching the inner lining.
A fabric comprising:
- a. an elastic fabric;
- b. a metallic weighting component integrally joined to the elastic fabric by uniformly dispersed weights to avoid interfering with the elastic properties of the fabric, wherein the weights are inside a discrete elastic elongated enclosures attached to elastic fabric with an adhesive.
A fabric comprising:
- a. a plurality of elastic elongated enclosures extending in a first direction, the elastics elongated enclosures having a lumen which contains a plurality of spaced apart weights,
- b. a plurality of elongated spacing members, each extending in the first direction being disposed between each of the adjacent elastic elongated enclosures,
- c. a plurality of cross-fibers extending generally perpendicular to the first direction being interwoven with the plurality of elastic elongated enclosures and elongated spacing members to bind said elastic elongated enclosures and elastic spacing members together to form the fabric.
A garment formed from a fabric comprising:
- a. a fabric layer,
- b. a plurality of discrete adjacent elastic elongated enclosures extending in a first direction parallel to each other being disposed on and connected to the fabric layer by an adhesive,
- c. a plurality of spaced apart weights disposed within the lumen defined by an interior wall of the elastic elongated enclosures.
A wearable garment system that comprises:
- a. A weighted elastic fabric comprising one or more layers of woven and non-woven materials including adhesives bondable by thermo-mechanical means,
- b. A plurality of weights that are an integral part of fabric and are dispersed uniformly within the fabric, being encapsulated between elastic surrounding layers
- c. wherein the weights are distributed in multiple position between at least the joints of limbs and the torso so as to not interfere with the biaxial stretching of the fabric and with the natural body movements that would otherwise occur in the absence of the wearable garment system.
A wearable garment comprising:
- a. an elastic fabric comprising;
- i. one or more layers of at least one of a woven and non-woven materials;
- ii. a plurality of regularly spaced apart encapsulated weights, between adjacent layers,
- ii. wherein said fabric provides the garment with a field of weight characterized by uniformly spaced weights separated by a spacing of up to about 5.92 cm to provide a weight distribution at least about 0.26 g/cm2.
A garment formed from a fabric comprising:
- a. an elastic fabric;
- b. a weighting component integrally joined to the elastic fabric by uniformly dispersed weights to avoid interfering with the elastic properties of the fabric wherein the weights are inside discrete enclosures attached to the elastic fabric with an adhesive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.