Non-fixed Spring Exercise System with Interchangeable Handles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise equipment, particularly in Pilates, often requires fixed springs attached to structures, limiting their use in various environments and not providing adequate resistance for deep stabilizing and long muscle strengthening, flexibility enhancement, and proper postural alignment.
Innovation Solution
A non-fixed spring exercise system with interchangeable grasp handles and loops that allow 360° rotation, enabling resistance to be generated through hands, feet, and limbs, providing adjustable resistance levels for customizable exercises across multiple exercise types.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If fixed springs are attached to structures for exercise resistance, then stable resistance is provided, but portability and versatility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise system is divided into separate modular components: a spring mechanism with interchangeable grasp handles, a base platform, and various attachments. This segmentation allows the resistance mechanism to be detached and transported independently, providing stable resistance when in use while maintaining portability and versatility across different exercise environments.
Solution Approach 2:
A base platform serves as an intermediary between the spring mechanism and the user, providing a stable mounting point for the spring while allowing the entire system to be easily assembled and disassembled. This intermediary component enables the spring to provide reliable resistance without requiring permanent attachment to structural elements.
2Device complexity
If single-type grasp handles are used for spring resistance, then simple structure is maintained, but exercise variety and muscle group engagement are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The spring mechanism is designed with a universal interface that accepts multiple types of grasp handles (hand grips, foot straps, loop handles). This multi-functionality allows a single spring mechanism to support diverse exercises targeting different muscle groups, from hand-to-hand resistance to foot-to-foot stretching, without increasing the core spring mechanism's complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a static, single-purpose grasp handle to a dynamic configuration where different handle types can be interchangeably attached based on exercise requirements. This dynamic adaptability enables the same spring mechanism to provide optimal resistance for various exercise types while maintaining structural simplicity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If non-fixed spring with interchangeable handles is used, then exercise versatility is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complexity into manageable parts: a standardized spring mechanism with a simple universal attachment interface, and separate interchangeable grasp handles. Each component remains relatively simple in design, but their combination creates versatile exercise possibilities without requiring each individual component to be complex.
4Reliability
If springs are fixed to wall or platform, then stable resistance anchor point is provided, but portability and environmental adaptability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The base platform acts as a portable intermediary that provides a stable anchor point for the spring mechanism without requiring attachment to permanent structures like walls. The platform's design allows it to serve as a self-contained, stable base that can be used in various environments including homes, gyms, and travel settings, thereby maintaining reliability while enhancing environmental adaptability.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This system effectively strengthens small and long muscles, enhances flexibility, stabilizes joints, and emphasizes core strength and muscle balance, offering a versatile and portable solution for low-impact exercises like Pilates, yoga, and ballet without the need for fixed apparatus.
Implementation Method 1
a spring operable to generate resistance to a pulling or pressing force when stretched
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AI summary
A spring exercise system and method of exercising that allows a user to perform a full body, low-impact style of exercise. The system utilizes a non-fixed extension spring that stretches and generates resistance when pulling and pressing forces are applied. The extension spring or springs are stretchable between multiple types of interchangeable grasp handles which may include any combination of a resilient loop handle with or without double “D” rings, a single rigid handle, and/or a resilient double loop handle. The spring may have a swiveling link or other mechanism/structure that joins the free ends of the spring to the grasp handles allowing a 360° rotation. The grasp handles are used with combinations of hands and feet, arms and legs to generate an extension of resistance that stretches, strengthens and tones muscles, enhances flexibility, core strength, joint stability, and muscle balance.