Multi-axis Exercise Machine Pitch Roll Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional exercise machines require long workout periods to achieve significant cardiovascular efficiency or muscle strength, and they fail to engage multiple muscle groups simultaneously, leading to inefficiencies in fitness training.
Innovation Solution
A multi-axis adjustable exercise machine that pivots about both a pitch axis and a roll axis, allowing the exercise platform to be variably positioned relative to a horizontal plane, thereby engaging more muscles and increasing workout intensity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional exercise machines use a fixed horizontal base structure, then the machine structure is simple and stable, but the workout time required is long and muscle engagement is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise machine employs a dynamically adjustable platform that can pivot about multiple axes (pitch and roll) to different angles, transforming the static horizontal surface into a multi-position dynamic surface. This allows the same machine to provide varying exercise intensities and engage different muscle groups without requiring multiple separate machines, thereby improving workout efficiency while maintaining reasonable structural complexity through controlled movement mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces additional spatial dimensions by allowing the exercise platform to tilt in multiple directions (pitch and roll axes) rather than remaining confined to a single horizontal plane. This multi-axis capability creates a three-dimensional exercise environment that engages stabilizing muscles and provides more comprehensive workouts, effectively increasing productivity without proportionally increasing device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the exercise machine allows multi-axis pivoting, then more muscle groups are engaged and workout intensity increases, but the device complexity and adjustment mechanisms increase
Solution Approach 1:
The multi-axis pivoting mechanism serves multiple functions simultaneously: it adjusts exercise intensity, engages different muscle groups, provides varied workout positions, and maintains platform stability. This universal adjustment system replaces what would otherwise require multiple separate exercise machines or complex independent adjustment mechanisms for each function, achieving high adaptability with controlled device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The dynamic multi-axis pivoting system allows real-time adjustment of exercise parameters during workouts, enabling the machine to adapt to different exercise routines and user needs. The mechanism provides continuous range of motion rather than fixed positions, enhancing versatility while using a unified structural approach that limits overall complexity.
3Use of energy by moving object
If the exercise platform is tilted at acute angles, then balance and coordination are enhanced and energy consumption increases, but the stability and safety requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts platform angles during exercise sessions, transitioning between horizontal and tilted positions based on exercise requirements. The controlled pivoting mechanism maintains stability through regulated movement and positioning, allowing the platform to achieve acute angles for enhanced energy consumption and muscle engagement while returning to stable horizontal positions when needed, thus balancing energy efficiency with reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The pivoting mechanism incorporates counterbalancing elements that offset the destabilizing effect of acute platform angles. These counterweight systems help maintain platform stability and control during tilted positions, ensuring safety and reliability even when the platform is angled to maximize energy consumption and muscle engagement.
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AI summary
A multi-axis adjustable exercise machine which is pivotable about both a pitch axis and a roll axis with respect to a base for allowing an exerciser to perform a wide range of exercises on a pitched or rolled exercise machine. The multi-axis adjustable exercise machine generally includes an exercise machine which is adjustable with respect to a base. The exercise machine may be pivoted about a roll axis to adjust the roll angle of the exercise machine or may be pivoted about a pitch axis to adjust the pitch angle of the exercise machine. One or more actuators may be connected between the base and the exercise machine to effectuate the pivoting of the exercise machine about either or both axes with respect to the base.