Adjustable Exercise Platform with Spring-Loaded Legs for Core Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise devices fail to provide a full-body workout, particularly neglecting major core muscle groups and limiting resistance adjustment to individual user needs.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable progressive exercise platform with a base platform, stabilization wings, and modular components such as dip bars, reverse row bars, and adjustable legs, allowing customizable resistance and exercise configurations for targeting multiple muscle groups.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If basic crunch, sit up, and push up routines are used, then pectoralis and abdominis muscle groups are strengthened, but full body workout capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise platform is designed to perform multiple functions by allowing various exercise positions and configurations. The platform can be adjusted to enable push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, and other exercises targeting different muscle groups, making a single device serve multiple workout purposes and enabling full body workouts without requiring multiple separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform incorporates adjustable and movable components that allow users to change exercise configurations dynamically. The platform can be positioned at different angles and heights, and users can transition between various exercise positions during a workout routine, enabling progressive resistance training and targeting different muscle groups with the same device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If fixed resistance exercise devices are used, then simple exercise execution is enabled, but individual user resistance needs cannot be met
Solution Approach 1:
The platform features adjustable components including height adjustment, angle adjustment, and positionable elements that allow users to customize resistance levels according to their individual needs. Users can modify the platform configuration to progress from beginner to advanced exercise intensities, enabling progressive resistance training while maintaining ease of use through intuitive adjustment mechanisms.
3Adaptability or versatility
If portable exercise apparatus is used, then travel and various setting usability is improved, but stability and base support may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is designed with modular components that can be folded and collapsed for compact storage and transport. The base structure incorporates foldable legs and segmented support elements that maintain stability during use but can be disassembled or compacted for portability, allowing the device to be easily transported to various settings while providing stable support during exercise.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform incorporates adjustable support elements and stabilization features that can be deployed or adjusted based on usage needs. The base structure includes mechanisms to ensure proper spinal stability and even weight distribution when in use, while maintaining the ability to be folded or collapsed for portable storage, thus balancing stability requirements with portability needs.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to perform comprehensive, customizable workouts that effectively engage core and extremity muscles, ensuring balanced development and spinal stability through adjustable resistance and varied exercise positions.
Implementation Method 1
at least one spring-loaded adjustable base leg configured to shift the center of gravity and allow a user to develop a plurality of stabilization muscles
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments described herein include an adjustable progressive exercise platform apparatus for use in a variety of settings. According to one aspect, the adjustable progressive exercise platform further includes a base portion and a platform. The base portion further includes a first and section portion that are releasably affixed about an axis and further contain an at least one set of horizontal apertures. The platform is substantially elongated and dimensioned to be releasably secured with the at least one set of horizontal apertures and provide a plurality of gradual resistance to at least one muscle group.