Exercise device

Abstract

The invention provides an exercise device including a pair of body-worn portions having a pair of annular parts to be worn on foreparts of limbs and a pair of gripped parts connected with the pair of annular parts, respectively, so as to be gripped between fingers; and a stretchable connection member made of an elastic material by which the pair of body-worn portions are connected together.

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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to an exercise device for imposing an exercise load onto the human body while being worn on the human body so as to enable the human body to produce advantageous effects, such as physical strength improvement, injury prevention, rehabilitation, lifestyle-related disease prevention, or blood circulation facilitation. BACKGROUND ART [0002] A training machine that uses muscular strength enhancing weights, a pair of dumbbells that impose a weighted load, and a tube type or spring type exercise machine that imposes a tensile load have been proposed as exercise devices for applying an exercise load to the human body. According to these devices, the muscular power of main muscles, accessory muscles, balance muscles, etc., is heightened by applying an exercise load, such as pushing, pulling, expanding, or closing, to limbs, so that advantageous effects, such as physical strength improvement, injury prevention, rehabilitation, lifestyle-re...

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[0001] The present invention relates to an exercise device for imposing an exercise load onto the human body while being worn on the human body so as to enable the human body to produce advantageous effects, such as physical strength improvement, injury prevention, rehabilitation, lifestyle-related disease prevention, or blood circulation facilitation.

[0002] A training machine that uses muscular strength enhancing weights, a pair of dumbbells that impose a weighted load, and a tube type or spring type exercise machine that imposes a tensile load have been proposed as exercise devices for applying an exercise load to the human body. According to these devices, the muscular power of main muscles, accessory muscles, balance muscles, etc., is heightened by applying an exercise load, such as pushing, pulling, expanding, or closing, to limbs, so that advantageous effects, such as physical strength improvement, injury prevention, rehabilitation, lifestyle-related disease prevention, and blood circulation facilitation, can be obtained.

[0003] These conventional exercise devices, i.e., the training machine using weights, the dumbbells that apply a weighted load, and the tube type or spring type exercise machine that applies a tensile load, do not have only advantages but also the following defects. For example, the training machine for muscular strength enhancement is defective in the fact that (a) much time is consumed to set or adjust weight, strength, length, etc., when exercises to be are performed, (b) the machine is inconvenient to be carried since the machine is great in mechanical dimensions or in weight, (c) limitations are imposed on a training space since the machine is required to secure an installation location, (d) limitations are imposed on a training space since noise occurs, and (e) exercises are difficult to be stopped when an exerciser has hurt a part of his / her body during the exercises.

[0004] On the other hand, for example, the tube type or spring type exercise machine is convenient to be carried, is used without rigid limitations on a training space, and can be easily stopped being operated during exercises. However, this exercise machine has a conventional problem in the fact that, (f) if an exerciser removes his / her hands from the exercise machine by mistake in handling to handle, tubes or springs will rebound, and grips thereof will strike his / her hands and feet or face, so that the exerciser injures the body or pinches his / her skin between coils of the springs. This problem is crucial especially in aged persons who are weak in grasping power and in muscular power and are not accustomed to how to handle the machine.

[0005] The present invention has been made in consideration of these circumstances, and aims to provide an exercise device for which exercises can start to be performed easily and conveniently and that causes no hindrance even when the device is handled by mistake. DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION

[0006] The present inventor has repeatedly performed various examinations in the light of the circumstances mentioned above. As a result, the present inventor has found that a pair of body-worn portions are not easily separated from foreparts of limbs, and even an aged person can start exercises easily and conveniently even if the grasping power or muscular power of the limbs is weak, by a pair of body-worn portions constructed of a pair of annular parts and a pair of gripped parts connected with the pair of annular parts so as to be gripped between fingers and by connecting the body-worn portions together by a connection member made of an elastic material in order to wear an exercise device on the foreparts of the limbs. The present invention has been made based on this expertise.

Problems solved by technology

These conventional exercise devices, i.e., the training machine using weights, the dumbbells that apply a weighted load, and the tube type or spring type exercise machine that applies a tensile load, do not have only advantages but also the following defects.

For example, the training machine for muscular strength enhancement is defective in the fact that (a) much time is consumed to set or adjust weight, strength, length, etc., when exercises to be are performed, (b) the machine is inconvenient to be carried since the machine is great in mechanical dimensions or in weight, (c) limitations are imposed on a training space since the machine is required to secure an installation location, (d) limitations are imposed on a training space since noise occurs, and (e) exercises are difficult to be stopped when an exerciser has hurt a part of his / her body during the exercises.

However, this exercise machine has a conventional problem in the fact that, (f) if an exerciser removes his / her hands from the exercise machine by mistake in handling to handle, tubes or springs will rebound, and grips thereof will strike his / her hands and feet or face, so that the exerciser injures the body or pinches his / her skin between coils of the springs.

This problem is crucial especially in aged persons who are weak in grasping power and in muscular power and are not accustomed to how to handle the machine.

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