Upper-Limb Weight-Bearing Trainer With Dynamic Pedal Balance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fitness equipment primarily trains specific body regions, leading to muscle memory and training plateaus, failing to engage multiple muscle groups and maintain dynamic balance, thus limiting comprehensive body and core training gains.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable active and passive exercise training equipment with an upper limb weight-bearing device and pedal device, featuring controllers and motors to adjust movement patterns, oscillation ranges, and angles, allowing simultaneous engagement of multiple muscle groups and dynamic balance through upper limb weight-bearing and pedal movements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If fitness equipment is configured to train only a specific body region, then the training focus is concentrated, but comprehensive body and core training is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines upper limb weight-bearing training and lower limb pedal training into a single integrated device. The upper limb weight-bearing structure and pedal device are merged through a shared frame and connection mechanisms, allowing simultaneous engagement of multiple muscle groups (upper limbs, lower limbs, core) to achieve comprehensive body training while maintaining focused training efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The exercise equipment is designed with multi-functional capabilities to train different body regions simultaneously. The upper limb weight-bearing structure targets shoulder and back muscles, the pedal device targets lower limb muscles, and the combined operation engages core muscles for dynamic balance, making the device universal for whole-body training
2Device complexity
If fitness equipment trains muscle groups in a single direction, then the training mechanism is simple, but training plateaus occur due to muscle memory
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates dynamic movement capabilities through the pedal device, which can move along at least one direction through slide rail structures. This allows the training mechanism to adapt and change directions during exercise, preventing muscle memory formation and training plateaus while maintaining reasonable device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The exercise equipment enables periodic alternating actions by allowing users to perform weight-bearing exercises with upper limbs while simultaneously performing pedal movements with lower limbs. This periodic coordination of different body parts creates varied training stimuli that prevent muscle memory and training plateaus
3Device complexity
If fitness equipment does not enable dynamic balance, then the training mechanism is simple, but body core engagement and overall training gains are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges upper limb weight-bearing training and lower limb pedal training into a coordinated whole-body exercise system. The connection between the upper limb structure and pedal device creates a unified training mechanism that requires core muscle engagement to maintain dynamic balance, thereby enhancing overall training gains
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AI summary
A piece of adjustable active and passive exercise training equipment for upper limb weight-bearing in an upright position, comprising an upper limb weight-bearing device and a pedal device. The upper limb weight-bearing device comprises a weight-bearing element and a holding element connected to the weight-bearing element. The holding element is configured to be held by a user to apply force to the weight-bearing element. The pedal device is connected to the upper limb weight-bearing device. The pedal device further comprises a plurality of pedals for the user to place the user's feet thereon. The pedals are configured to change a pedaling angle and move along at least one direction. The invention of the adjustable active and passive exercise training equipment for upper limb weight-bearing in an upright position can enable the user to actively train with the upper limb weight-bearing device while simultaneously undergoing passive lower limb movement through the pedal device, thereby achieving more comprehensive exercise effects.