Wearable Exerciser with 360 Swivel for Multi-Planar Motion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise devices are bulky, expensive, and limited in their ability to facilitate multi-planar exercises, often causing muscle strain and injury due to shifting or breaking components, and are not discreet or portable enough for office or home use.
Innovation Solution
A wearable exercise device featuring support straps and grip straps with a 360° rotatable swivel, allowing for secure attachment to various body locations and enabling full-range motion in sagittal, transverse, and frontal planes for isometric and isotonic exercises, designed for easy use in standing, sitting, or lying positions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional exercise weights and machines are used, then muscle conditioning effectiveness is improved, but portability and discreetness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise device is segmented into separate wearable components (waist belt with anchor, wrist/ankle cuffs with elastic bands) that can be independently attached and removed from different body parts, enabling portable exercise routines without requiring bulky traditional equipment
Solution Approach 2:
The elastic bands serve multiple functions by being adjustable in tension and attachable to various body locations (wrists, ankles, hands, feet), allowing the same component to provide resistance training for different muscle groups including upper body, lower body, and core exercises
2Force
If exercise equipment with weights and bands is used, then resistance exercise capability is improved, but device complexity and cost deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the essential resistance function from complex weight machines and isolates it into simple elastic bands that provide sufficient resistance for effective exercise without requiring mechanical complexity or expensive components
Solution Approach 2:
The resistance force is adjusted by changing the elastic band tension parameters and attachment configurations rather than requiring complex mechanical adjustment mechanisms, allowing variable resistance levels with simple device components
3Stability of the object's composition
If fixed anchor exercise devices are used, then exercise stability is improved, but adaptability to different exercise positions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise device transitions from fixed anchors to dynamic wearable anchors that move with the user's body, allowing stable resistance exercise in multiple positions (standing, sitting, lying) while maintaining security through body-movement-compatible attachment methods
4Ease of operation
If elastic bands with limited rotation are used, then exercise control is improved, but range of motion deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise system adds rotational freedom in multiple dimensions by allowing elastic bands to rotate at wrist/ankle cuffs and adjust attachment points, enabling full range of motion in sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes while maintaining exercise control through adjustable tension
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AI summary
An exerciser that is discreet, portable, wearable, and easy-to-install and remove is presented. It is designed to custom-fit to the body for isometric and isotonic exercises to strengthen and develop the upper torso and leg muscles through resistive movement of opposing muscle groups. One example of the exerciser consists of support and grip straps and 360° swivel. The support strap is a loop that is fastened to either or both wrists, arms, legs, or ankles with a buckle or equivalent closure, and designed to form fit to the appendages with ½-inch spaced holes. The grip strap is a continuous loop used as a grip for the hands. The exerciser can facilitate many range-of-motion exercises in the frontal, sagittal and transverse planes.