Door-Mounted Workout System With Adjustable Resistance Bands
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional exercise equipment is often anatomy-specific, bulky, and unsuitable for full-body workouts, restricting movement and being cumbersome for indoor and outdoor use, with limited portability and versatility.
Innovation Solution
A portable full-body workout system that can be mounted on doors, walls, or vertical structures, utilizing adjustable resistance bands and pulleys to provide a range of exercises, allowing resistance training both with and against gravity, and accommodating various resistance levels from 1 kg to 300 kg or more.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional exercise equipment is designed to be anatomy-specific and mechanically complex, then it can provide targeted muscle exercise, but it becomes bulky and unsuitable for full-body workouts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal exercise system where a single door-mounted apparatus can perform multiple exercises targeting different muscle groups throughout the body. The system uses adjustable resistance bands, pulleys, and attachment points that can be reconfigured for various exercises including squats, lunges, chest presses, and back exercises, eliminating the need for multiple specialized machines
Solution Approach 2:
The exercise equipment is divided into modular components including separate resistance bands, pulley mechanisms, attachment points, and door mounting hardware. This segmentation allows each component to be independently adjusted and reconfigured for different exercises, providing full-body workout capability while keeping the overall system simple and space-efficient
2Ease of operation
If conventional exercise equipment is designed with fixed structures, then it can provide stable exercise support, but it restricts user range of movement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic elements including adjustable resistance bands that can be repositioned, pulleys that move along tracks, and attachment points that can be reconfigured. These dynamic components allow the equipment structure to adapt during exercise, providing stable support while enabling full range of motion and varied exercise trajectories
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional exercise equipment is designed for indoor use only, then it can provide controlled exercise environment, but it lacks portability for outdoor use
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the exercise functionality from traditional heavy indoor gym equipment and relocates it to a door-mounted system that leverages the door structure for support. By using lightweight resistance bands instead of heavy weight stacks and mechanical guides instead of complex mechanical structures, the system achieves portability for outdoor use while maintaining exercise effectiveness
4Ease of operation
If conventional exercise equipment uses heavy weight plates and mechanical systems, then it can provide high resistance training, but it becomes cumbersome to adjust and store
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical weight systems with elastic resistance bands that provide resistance through material elasticity rather than gravitational force on weight plates. This substitution allows resistance to be adjusted by changing bands or repositioning attachment points, eliminating the need for heavy weight plates and complex mechanical adjustment mechanisms while maintaining high resistance training capability
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient, safe, and intense full-body workouts comparable to professional gym equipment, suitable for indoor and outdoor use, with easy storage and transportation, catering to diverse users and applications such as muscle building, physical therapy, and sports performance enhancement.
Implementation Method 1
a resilient band 108 having a predetermined resistance value
Implementation Method 2
a bracket assembly 106 having one or more pulleys 106c
Implementation Method 3
allowing resistance training both with and against gravity
Data Source
AI summary
Presented is a portable full body work out system for indoor and outdoor uses. The system includes a pair of mounts configurable over an intended surface, a pair of bracket assembles releasably mountable over the mounts, a strap with extending around one or more pulleys of one of the bracket assemblies and operatively connecting to a securing device, a resistance band releasably mountable around a retainer member of one of the bracket assemblies and another coupled to the securing device. The securing device is selectively operated during initial set up to allow the user to adopt to an appropriate position to connect an external exercising accessory to the strap for performing an exercise. The user is able to select the desired resistance for the exercise, or reduce the selected resistance, or combine resistances for even greater resistance by selecting appropriate resistance bands, and/or changing the tension applied on the strap.