Wall-Mounted Exercise System with Visual Feedback Mat
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current exercise systems lack consistency and progression in bilateral exercises, leading to imbalances and difficulty in advancing workout difficulty, as users struggle to maintain proper form and distance from anchors.
Innovation Solution
A wall-mounted exercise system with a floor mat that incorporates visual feedback via lines and lights, along with resistance bands and a medicine ball, to guide users through movement patterns and ensure consistent bilateral exercises, while allowing for progressive adjustments in resistance and alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If users perform bilateral exercises without visual feedback guidance, then the exercise system is simpler, but consistency and form accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates visual feedback elements including lines and lights on the floor mat that provide real-time guidance to users during bilateral exercises. These visual cues indicate proper positioning and movement patterns, ensuring consistent form and distance from anchors without requiring complex mechanical guidance systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical guidance systems with visual feedback mechanisms. Instead of using mechanical guides or physical constraints to ensure proper exercise form, the system uses illuminated lines and visual markers on the floor mat to guide user positioning and movement, significantly reducing device complexity while maintaining exercise consistency.
2Reliability
If users exercise at fixed distances from anchors, then exercise consistency is maintained, but adaptability to different fitness levels is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates adjustable resistance bands that allow users to modify the tension and resistance levels dynamically. The system provides multiple resistance settings and allows progression from lighter to heavier resistance as users improve, enabling workout difficulty to be adapted to different fitness levels while maintaining consistent exercise patterns through visual guidance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables parameter changes by allowing users to adjust resistance levels, exercise repetitions, and intensity. The visual feedback system maintains consistent form guidance while the resistance parameters can be progressively increased, and the system supports different exercise variations to accommodate advancing fitness levels.
3Measurement precision
If visual feedback systems are added to guide exercise patterns, then exercise accuracy improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical positioning systems with visual feedback mechanisms embedded in the floor mat. Illuminated lines and markers provide precise position guidance without requiring mechanical guides, sensors, or complex control systems, achieving high position accuracy with minimal added complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses the floor mat as an intermediary element that incorporates visual feedback. The mat serves as both the exercise surface and the guidance system, with embedded lines and lights that provide position accuracy without requiring separate complex guidance apparatus.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein is an exercise system comprising a wall mount having tie down anchors and an exercise mat. The exercise mat comprises a plurality of radial lines to ensure the user maintains a known distance from the wall mount. A first end of a resistance band is coupled to a tie down anchor and a second end of the exercise mat is coupled to a handle.