Exercise Rocker with Curved Tracks for Core Strengthening
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise equipment targeting core muscle groups often results in injury or exceeds user capability, leading to discontinuation and disposal due to strenuous workouts involving weights and resistance.
Innovation Solution
A low-impact exercise device with a folding seat and elevated leg rest on independent tracks, utilizing a mild rocking motion similar to a swing set, isolating core muscle groups through pelvic thrusting without weights or resistance, allowing for a comprehensive core workout with reduced impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If weights and resistance are used in exercise equipment, then muscle strengthening effect is improved, but risk of injury increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes weights and resistance mechanisms from the exercise device, extracting the harmful elements while preserving the core exercise function. The device uses only the user's body weight and a mild rocking motion, eliminating the need for external weights, springs, or resistance mechanisms that cause injury in traditional equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of applying external resistance to strengthen muscles, the patent inverts the approach by using the user's own body weight in a controlled rocking motion. The exercise intensity is controlled by the user's own movements rather than external forces, reversing the traditional method of applying external resistance.
2Strength
If exercise intensity is increased to improve workout effectiveness, then muscle conditioning is improved, but user capability is exceeded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a dynamic rocking motion that allows users to control the intensity of exercise through their own movements. The seat and leg rest move along curved tracks, creating a natural rocking motion that adapts to the user's capability while maintaining effective muscle engagement through repeated pelvic thrusting motions.
Solution Approach 2:
The exercise intensity is controlled by changing the parameters of the rocking motion - specifically the amplitude and frequency of pelvic thrusting - rather than by increasing external resistance. This allows users to adjust the workout intensity to match their own capability levels while still achieving effective muscle conditioning.
3Strength
If complex resistance mechanisms are added to exercise equipment, then workout effectiveness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the exercise device into separate functional components: a seat member with wheels on a curved track, an elevated leg rest member with wheels on a separate track, and a frame connecting them. This segmentation allows each component to move independently, achieving effective core workout through coordinated motion without requiring complex resistance mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The rocking motion mechanism serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides the exercise motion, controls the intensity through user input, and eliminates the need for separate resistance mechanisms. The curved tracks guide the motion while the independent wheel systems on seat and leg rest create the necessary movement patterns for effective core strengthening.
Data Source
AI summary
An exercise device focusing on core strengthening and development of abdominal and gluteal muscle groups provides a curved inner track which provides a rolling seat and a flat outer track providing a rolling leg support over which the legs of a user engage, positioning the body in a recumbent position, with contraction and extension of the abdomen of the user compelling the rolling seat and rolling leg support using a pelvic thrusting motion to strengthen and exercise lower back, abdominal, gluteal, quadriceps and hamstring muscles and to improve and refine a shape and condition of the muscle groups.