EXERCISE METHODS AND APPARATUS SIMULATING STAND-UP PADDLE BOARDING
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Abstract
An exercise apparatus includes a frame; a platform configured to receive a person in a standing position, the platform connected to the frame; a handheld component configured to be held by a person standing on the platform; and an impeller-driven fluid circulation system. Manipulation of the handheld component by a person standing on the platform results in driving of the impeller and circulation of fluid within the fluid circulation system. The platform may rock from side to side, whereby a person standing on the platform must maintain balance while manipulating the handheld component. The handheld component may simulate a paddle and may include an elongate shaft. In this respect, the paddle component is used by a person standing on the platform as if the paddle component were a paddle used in paddleboarding, including manipulating the paddle component through a rowing motion that preferably would be experienced when actually paddleboarding.
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21 Claims
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1-12. -12. (canceled)
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13. A method of exercising simulating paddleboarding, comprising the steps of:
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(a) standing on a platform; and (b) while standing on the platform, handling a paddle component of an exercise machine as if the paddle component were a paddle used in paddleboarding by manipulating the paddle component through a rowing motion including a backstroke, and encountering a resistance during the backstroke of the rowing motion that is similar to a resistance encountered when a paddle is used in paddleboarding to propel a paddleboard; (c) wherein the backstroke of the rowing motion results in the drawing out of a tensioning line of the exercise machine which, in turn, causes an impeller of the exercise machine to be driven such that a fluid is circulated through a closed system of the exercise machine; and (d) wherein tension is maintained in the tensioning line during the rowing motion by spring-biasing a spooling assembly of the exercise machine to wind-up the tensioning line, the backstroke acting in opposition to the spring-biasing of the spooling assembly, and the tensioning line being wound-up as the paddle component is moved toward the housing during the rowing motion. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A method of providing an exercise experience that simulates paddleboarding, comprising the steps of:
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(a) spring-biasing a spooling assembly of an exercise machine to wind-up a tensioning line, the spring-biasing of the spooling assembly acting in opposition to a force drawing out the tensioning line resulting from a backstroke of a rowing motion of a paddle component that is configured to be handled by a person in a standing position as if the paddle component were a paddle used in paddleboarding, the paddle component comprising an elongate shaft; (b) causing an impeller of the exercise machine to be driven such that a fluid is circulated through a closed system of the exercise machine when the tensioning line is drawn out during the backstroke of the rowing motion. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21-25. -25. (canceled)
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