Most muscular replicator/multiflexer

• US 20080085820A1
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lawrence Majkrzak
• Original Assignee: Lawrence Majkrzak
• Inventors: Majkrzak, Lawrence
• Application Number:
  US11/903,436
• Publication Number:
  US 20080085820A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/92
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0628 for vertical array of weights
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/154 using special pulley-assemblies
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4035 for operation by hand
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4047 Pivoting movement weight pivoting A63B21/0615
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0204 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/03533 With separate means driven by each limb, i.e. performing different movements
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/03541 Moving independently from each other A63B22/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/12 for upper limbs or related muscles, e.g. chest, upper back or shoulder muscles bench press exercises A63B21/078; for teaching music G09B15/06
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/1254 Rotation about an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body, e.g. butterfly-type exercises
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0057 Means for physically limiting movements of body parts A63B23/0211 takes precedence

Abstract

One embodiment of an exercise device for the chest wherein to a base two large rotating sheaves are placed in a horizontal plane, turned by poles in the vertical plane to which rotating handles are attached. A cord attached to a pulley wraps around each sheave as the poles are rotated from a position of from behind the back to in front of the chest of the exerciser (or vice versa). The sheaves are placed in horizontal planes above or below the exerciser. Thus two functions of the chest, transverse adduction and medial rotation of the arms are multiplexed into one movement.

Claims

1. A method for exercising the muscles of the chest, comprising the steps of:

a. grasping two communicating man-machine interfaces connected to a source of resistance and drawing them apart and bringing them together in one motion of bodily circumnavigation in the transverse plane, whereby transverse adduction and medial rotation are achieved in one movement