Resistance fitness suit

Abstract

A fitness system including a suit, a fixation system, and attachment locations on the fixation system. The attachment locations are located at the neck, shoulders, chest, waist, and knees. The fitness system also includes bands that are attached to the attachment points on the upper and lower torso. The upper torso band traverses behind the neck or posterior shoulders to the front waist to engage the rear deltoid, the upper back and the lower back. The upper torso band may also traverse under the armpit to the rear waist to engage the front deltoid, the chest, and the abdominals. The lower torso band traverses the rear waist over the front of each thigh to below the knee to engage the gluteus, the hamstring and the flexion of the upper leg, or under the thigh to below the knee to engage the quadriceps and the extension of the upper leg.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The present application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 791,931, filed on Mar. 3, 2004, which claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 60 / 451,725, filed on Mar. 4, 2003, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein in their entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Poor fitness, weight gain, and obesity are interrelated health killers. They may soon cancel out almost all major gains in medical treatment, quality of life, and longer lifespan over the past fifty years. The invention, in a exemplary embodiment called The BodySculptor™ offers a radical, novel solution to this worldwide epidemic, fast becoming the major worldwide quality of life and health care crisis. Type 2 Diabetes is the illness most directly linked to obesity. A condition that often leads to heart disease and kidney failure, it is blamed for more than 3 million deaths a year. It afflicts 154 million people—nearly four ti...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] According to one embodiment, the system further includes attachment locations that are aligned along a region. According to another embodiment, the region is a region which tolerates resistive tightening well. The region may be a joint, a major muscle group, or a region selected from the group consisting of the rib cage, the upper torso, the lower back, the abdomen, the thigh, and the leg of a user. According to another embodiment, the attachment locations are located at the shoulders, the chest, the pelvic girdle, the waist, the elbow, or the knee of a user. According to one embodiment, the band is stretched by movement involving the region. The band may increase the energy expenditure by the user to maintain a normal posture.

[0008] According to another embodiment, the band traverses the upper cervical region, down across the anterior deltoid and attaches to attachment locations either along the anterior pelvic girdle or behind the axilla to the posterior side of the body of a user. According to another embodiment, the band traverses the pelvic girdle, down across the thigh, and attaches to attachment locations below the knee. The system may further comprise a circumferential band overlying the sternum and the rib cage of a user, a pad associated with the band, or a suit to which the fitness system is incorporated. The circumferential band may be positioned from about 2 inches to about 3 inches above the sternum to about 2 inches to about 3 inches below the sternum and may increase the amount of gas exchange during exhalation and increases the amount of energy expended during each breath by the user. The suit may further comprises a fabric tunnel to prevent said band from moving out of alignment. The fixation system associated with the knee comprises at least two circumferential portions.

[0010] According to another embodiment, the upper band and the lower band create a substantially symmetrical force relative to the user. According to another embodiment, the upper band and the lower band create a minimal resistive force sufficient to increase the energy expenditure of the user.

Problems solved by technology

The band may increase the energy expenditure by the user to maintain a normal posture.

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