Planche Training Support Pad With Counterweight Assistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Common street workouts requiring significant physical strength and excellent performance are highly difficult for ordinary exercisers, as conventional exercise devices are inadequate for practicing highly challenging moves like the planche.
Innovation Solution
An exercise device comprising a frame unit, support pad unit, assistance unit, and grip units, which allows for adjustable positioning and support, providing an upward force through counterweights and grip adjustments to facilitate the planche exercise.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional exercise devices are used for street workouts, then basic bodyweight exercises can be performed, but highly difficult moves like planche cannot be achieved due to insufficient support and assistance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a counterweight mechanism comprising weight plates and a pulley system that provides upward assistance force to support the user's body weight during planche training. This counterweight system reduces the effective weight the user must support, enabling ordinary exercisers to achieve difficult planche positions that would otherwise require significant physical strength.
Solution Approach 2:
The support pad is designed to be movable in the up-down direction relative to the frame unit, allowing dynamic adjustment of support position and height. This dynamic capability enables the device to adapt to different user heights, body positions, and training stages, transforming from a static conventional device to a dynamic system that assists in achieving highly difficult moves.
2Force
If bodyweight training is used without assistance, then exercise intensity is high, but the required physical strength exceeds the capability of ordinary exercisers
Solution Approach 1:
The counterweight mechanism with adjustable weight plates provides upward assistance force that directly counteracts the downward gravitational force on the user's body. By adjusting the counterweight magnitude, the system can reduce the net force requirement from full bodyweight to a manageable level, enabling ordinary exercisers to perform high-intensity planche training without exceeding their strength capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The assistance unit allows adjustment of the upward force parameter through different weight plate configurations. This parameter change capability enables the device to adapt to varying user strength levels and training progressions, making high-force planche exercises accessible to ordinary exercisers by dynamically modifying the force balance equation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If fixed-position support is used, then device structure is simple, but it cannot accommodate users with different body sizes and training needs
Solution Approach 1:
The support pad unit is designed with movable mounting on the frame unit, enabling up-down direction movement. This dynamic positioning capability allows the support pad to be adjusted to different heights and positions to accommodate users with various body sizes and different training stages, transforming a simple fixed structure into an adaptable dynamic system.
Solution Approach 2:
The device is segmented into independent functional units including the movable support pad unit, the assistance unit with adjustable counterweights, and the grip units with movable handles. This segmentation allows each component to be independently adjusted and configured, providing comprehensive adaptability for various users while maintaining manageable device complexity through modular design.
4Force
If full bodyweight support is required for planche, then training effectiveness is high, but the equipment must provide sufficient upward force which increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The assistance unit employs a counterweight mechanism with weight plates that can be stacked or removed to provide the necessary upward support force. This approach generates the required full-bodyweight support force through a relatively simple mechanical counterbalance system, avoiding the need for complex hydraulic, pneumatic, or electronic force generation systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The counterweight system utilizes the user's own bodyweight as the reference for setting the appropriate assistance level. By adjusting the counterweight to match or partially match the user's bodyweight, the system automatically provides the correct upward force without requiring external calibration or complex control systems, achieving high training effectiveness with minimal device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device assists users in achieving and maintaining the planche with less strength, offering adjustable features to suit various users, enhancing training effectiveness and user-friendliness.
Implementation Method 1
The assistance unit (30) is operable to provide an upward supporting force (F) to the support pad unit (20)
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AI summary
An exercise device includes a frame unit, a support pad unit, an assistance unit, and two grip units. The support pad unit is movably mounted to the frame unit and movable relative to the frame unit in an up-down direction, and includes a support pad module. The assistance unit is mounted to the frame unit and connected to the support pad unit. The assistance unit is operable to urge the support pad unit to move upward. The grip units are mounted to the frame unit opposite to each other in a left-right direction, and are located below the support pad module in the up-down direction. Each of the grip unit includes a handle. The handles of the grip units are operable to move so as to adjust a relative position between the handles.