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Abstract

A device for attaching to arms of the user including a pedestal for extending the length of the device so that the user can walk on the arms by keeping a back of the user substantially parallel to a horizontal plane, a wrist stabilizer to stabilize a wrist of the user and a body attached to the pedestal including a groove adjacent to the wrist stabilizer to allow a hand of the user to pass by the wrist stabilizer.

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PRIORITY [0001] The present invention claims priority under 35 USC section 119 based on the patent application Ser. No. 60 / 659,272 filed on Mar. 7, 2005.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to exercise devices and more particularly to exercise devices that involve walking on arms and legs. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] The world awaits, horrified, at the threat of a pandemic cause by the H5N1 avian influenza virus. However, nature has provided a unrecognized mitigating solution to this problem. If the pandemic does occur, not all humans may survive, but the number that survive can be increased if certain procedures in accordance with the teachings of the present invention which imitate nature are implemented. In order to implement these procedures, the difference between climbing muscles and walking muscles should be recognized. In the human arm and in the forearm of other animals, are located muscles which if used properly will determine the number of hu...

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Benefits of technology

[0008] The ELEPHEET of the present invention allows human beings including preschoolers to walk and stomp in a manner similar to the great apes and will extend the reach of the arm to approximately match the length of the leg and to protect the knuckles with padding, support the wrist and lower arm with an air inflated support and shunt the pressure on the wrist to the elbow. Furthermore, the ELEPHEET of the present invention develops the chest and the upper respiratory region of humans including children and provides an addictive way to increase physical activity.

Problems solved by technology

However, nature has provided a unrecognized mitigating solution to this problem.

This problem has resulted from widespread obesity throughout the world population and the associated health problems such as diabetes and hypertension.

This lack of exercise results in part from the view that regular exercise is a chore and is unappealing.

In humans, the lack of the ability to engage our walking muscles in our arms has resulted in a vulnerability to heart trouble, stroke, the inability to develop a robust blood circulatory, ischemia, edema and a myriad of other disorders too numerous to categorize.

It is these physical inabilities, amounting to a malady, that results in human beings being susceptible to asthma, allergies and other respiratory diseases which may result in the human race being unnecessarily susceptible to diseases such as the avian H5N1 flu virus if it should hit, and the human race has not taken sufficient precautions.

However, humans can not easily perform this type of locomotion simply because their human knuckles are not protected sufficiently to withstand the pressures and frictions involved in this type of locomotion.

Furthermore, the arms of a human being are not sufficiently long to achieve this type of locomotion and to maintain their spine in a substantially horizontal plane.

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