Vertical fitness equipment and exercise methods

Abstract

A fitness wall panel has a height chosen to correspond with (1) the height of the user and / or (2) the environmental limitations of the containing room, producing a multifunctional exercise system. Large, rugged hand / foot holds and / or handles are removably bolted in the panel. Elastic straps, bands, ropes, chains, cables, platforms, bars and various other attachments can be mounted on the panel. Optional pulley systems and vibrators are mountable to the panel. Removable attachment of the foregoing devices creates a multitude of functional options and configurations, allowing a multitude of different exercise and training methods to be performed on one piece of equipment. Panels can be configured into arrays, projections or posts standing alone. Users work up and down and side to side doing exercises to perform full body and / or muscle specific or isolating exercises or any combination thereof in a limited space without exposure to dangerous height.

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[0001] cross reference [0002] This application is a non-provisional application claiming the benefit of Provisional Application No. 61 / 159,155, filed March 11, 2009, which is hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes. Background technique [0003] Simulated climbing walls are well known. Typically, climbing gyms have belays in case a climber falls from a height of 20 feet or more and support the climber directly from above. The various hand / foot support points are often small and difficult to find grips to train climbers to climb simulated climbing walls creatively. Climbing walls are designed to simulate the action of climbing real rock surfaces and help users become better climbers. Traditional climbing walls are designed to push the climber up the wall in a slow and tedious manner, which requires a large number of linear-sized surfaces that the climber climbs laterally or longitudinally in a single forward direction, usually only achieved by reversing the direct...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] The support points on the climbing wall simulate the type of handle or fulcrum that can be grasped on a real rock surface, but is not easy to hold

Sometimes it takes a few minutes to find a way to hold it, which makes the use of the climbing wall limited to rock climbing, if done well, to just specifically repeat the action of climbing real rock surfaces

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