Total Body Exercise Machine with Recoiling Shock Absorbers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise machines for full-body workouts are often cumbersome, time-consuming, and lack coordination between different body movements, failing to effectively build strength and coordination skills.
Innovation Solution
A compact exercise machine with a platform, recoiling shock absorbers, and adjustable resistance for both upper and lower body exercises, allowing users to stand on pedals and grasp handles for a cycling motion, with independent flywheels and resistance members for versatile and efficient workouts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate exercise machines are used for full-body workout, then comprehensive exercise coverage is achieved, but the workout becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines upper body and lower body exercise functions into a single integrated machine. The lower body exercise assembly with pedals and the upper body exercise assembly with handles are merged into one unified structure, allowing users to perform both upper and lower body exercises sequentially without switching between multiple separate machines, thereby reducing total workout time while maintaining comprehensive exercise coverage
Solution Approach 2:
The exercise machine is designed with multi-functional capabilities to perform both upper body and lower body exercises. The single machine incorporates a lower body exercise assembly for leg movements and an upper body exercise assembly for arm and shoulder movements, making it a universal device that replaces multiple specialized machines and provides complete full-body workout coverage
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate exercise machines are used for full-body workout, then comprehensive exercise coverage is achieved, but the equipment becomes cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple exercise functions into a single unified structure. The lower body exercise assembly and upper body exercise assembly are combined into one machine with a shared frame and base, eliminating the need for multiple separate machines and reducing overall equipment complexity while maintaining full-body exercise coverage
Solution Approach 2:
The machine is divided into distinct functional modules: a lower body exercise assembly with pedals and cranks, an upper body exercise assembly with handles and flywheels, and a shared frame structure. This segmentation allows each module to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system simplicity and ease of assembly
3Ease of operation
If existing exercise machines are used, then basic exercise functions are provided, but coordination between different body movements is lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The machine enables continuous coordinated movement between upper and lower body through its design. Users perform pedaling motions with their lower body while simultaneously gripping and moving the handles with their upper body, creating a continuous cyclical motion pattern that builds coordination skills while maintaining basic exercise functionality
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
The machine provides a time-efficient, joyful, and effective total body workout by adjusting resistance levels and allowing separate control of upper and lower body exercises, improving coordination, strength, and cardiovascular fitness.
Implementation Method 1
one or more recoiling shock absorbers sandwiched between the front bar and the front base
Implementation Method 2
The lower drive assembly comprises a first flywheel operably coupled to the pair of pedals, and a first variable resistance member configured to resist a rotation of the first flywheel. The upper drive assembly comprises a second flywheel operably coupled to the pair of handles
Implementation Method 3
a first variable resistance member configured to resist a rotation of the first flywheel. The upper drive assembly comprises a second flywheel operably coupled to the pair of handles, and a second variable resistance member configured to resist a rotation of the second flywheel
Data Source
AI summary
An exercise machine for a total body workout includes a platform, a lower frame mounted over the platform, and an upper frame mounted to the lower frame. The platform includes recoiling shock absorbers such as springs. A lower drive assembly includes a pair of pedals mounted to the lower frame. An upper drive assembly includes a pair of handles mounted to the upper frame. A person for exercise can stand on the pair of peddles while grabbing the pair of handles. Thereafter, the person can rotate the pair of the peddles by legs and the pair handles by hands in the cycling motion.