Dynamic Exercise Device with Rotatable Handle for Stabilizer Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing portable body weight exercise devices for the upper body and core primarily focus on limited muscle groups, neglecting stabilizer muscles and causing imbalanced muscle development, which can lead to excessive stress and potential injury.
Innovation Solution
A multi-directional exercise device with a rotatable handle and base structure, allowing for multiple degrees of freedom and adjustable resistance, enabling comprehensive upper body muscle training, including stabilizer muscles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If prior art portable body weight exercise devices are used, then exercise of chest and core muscles is provided, but stabilizer muscles are neglected and muscle development becomes imbalanced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic movement capabilities through rotatable handles that can change orientation during exercise, allowing the same device to train multiple muscle groups including stabilizer muscles in the forearm, wrist, elbow, and shoulder. The handle rotation mechanism enables the device to adapt to different exercise requirements without adding multiple separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The exercise device is designed with multi-functional capabilities to train both prime mover muscles (chest and core) and stabilizer muscles through various handle orientations and positions. The rotatable handle mechanism allows a single device to serve multiple training purposes, eliminating the need for separate devices for different muscle groups.
2Ease of operation
If fixed position hand orientation is used in prior art devices, then exercise simplicity is maintained, but wrist and elbow stress becomes excessive
Solution Approach 1:
The handle is designed to be rotatable during exercise execution, allowing the hand orientation to dynamically adjust according to the user's anatomical needs and exercise requirements. This dynamic adjustment capability distributes stress more evenly across muscle groups and reduces excessive stress on specific joints like the wrist and elbow while maintaining exercise simplicity.
3Device complexity
If limited range of motion is provided in prior art devices, then device simplicity is maintained, but muscle development is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable handle mechanism provides an extended range of motion that allows the hand to be positioned and oriented in multiple positions during exercise. This dynamic range of motion capability enables comprehensive muscle development across multiple muscle groups while maintaining relatively simple device construction through the use of straightforward rotation mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
A dynamic exercise device having a hand grip mounted in an inner ring, the inner ring mounted in an outer ring, and the outer ring mounted in a base. The inner ring, outer ring and base are each movable in at least one degree of freedom relative to each of the others. The base further includes a first support strut, a second support strut, and a bridge member interconnecting the first and second support struts and having a planar surface-engaging face configured to engage a surface on or against which the exercise device is used.