Fitness method utilizing moving platforms

• US 7,258,651 B2
• Filed: 03/17/2003
• Issued: 08/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kappel Leroy Clarke
• Original Assignee: Kappel Leroy Clarke
• Inventors: Clarke, Kappel Leroy
• Primary Examiner(s): DeMille; Danton D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAM M
• Application Number:
  US10/389,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20040043870A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,618 Days
• Field of Search: 482/51, 482/54, 434/247, 434/250, 434/255, 273/440, 273/455
• US Class Current: 482/54
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2102/06 Squash
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0242 with speed variation
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2243/0066 Rugby; American football
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/00 Training appliances or apparatus for special sports training of parachutists B64D23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/002 for football American-football dummies A63B69/34
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0024 for hockey
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0048 for mountaineering, e.g. climbing-walls, grip elements for climbing-walls
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0066 for wind-surfing
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0071 for basketball
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0095 for volley-ball
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/06 for rowing or sculling
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/18 for skiing
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/187 for water-skiing
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/38 for tennis A63B61/006, A63B69/0073 and A63B69/0097 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0015 Dancing
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports

Abstract

A fitness method for an exerciser in a format that utilizes a moving surface (the moving belt of a standard treadmill); and two types of fixed surfaces: the first type being the narrow platform edges that run along the right and left sides of the moving belt of standard treadmills; the second type of fixed surface being the floor space immediately surrounding the treadmill 3 to 5 feet out and away from it on all 4 sides, front, back, night and left. The format involves specific movements of the feet that take the practitioner from occupying a position on the moving surface (the moving belt of a standard treadmill) to occupying a position on either of the 2 types of fixed surfaces (the narrow platform edges that run along the right and left sides of the moving belt of standard treadmills or the floor space immediately surrounding the treadmill 3 to 5 feet out and away from it on all 4 sides, front, back, right and left) and back to the moving surface one time or more repeatedly.

Claims

1. An exercise method for an individual that utilizes a linearly moving surface and two types of fixed surfaces, the method comprising the following steps:

a) an individual stepping onto a linearly moving surface;

b) the individual momentarily and alternatively stepping from the moving surface to either a first or second fixed surface and back again onto the moving surface in a continuous motion; and

c) repeating steps (a) and (b) as part of the exercise method wherein the first fixed surface is comprised of platform edges that run along on either side of the moving surface and the second fixed surface is comprised of floor space immediately surrounding the moving surface.

2. The exercise method of claim 1, further comprising initial steps of mastering stepping on a stationary surface, before stepping onto the moving surface.

3. The exercise method of claim 1, wherein said method is practiced over a plurality of linearly moving surfaces adjacent to each other, separated by first and second types of fixed surfaces.

4. An exercise method for an individual that utilizes a linearly moving surface and two types of fixed surfaces, the method comprising the following steps:

a) an individual stepping onto a linearly moving surface;

b) the individual momentarily and alternatively stepping from the moving surface to both a first fixed surface and a second fixed surface and back again onto the moving surface; and

c) repeating steps (a) and (b) as part of the exercise method wherein the first fixed surface is comprised of platform edges that run along on either side of the moving surface and the second fixed surface is comprised of floor space immediately surrounding the moving surface.

5. An exercise method for an individual that utilizes a linearly moving surface and at least one fixed surface, the method comprising the following steps:

a) an individual stepping onto a linearly moving surface;

b) the individual momentarily and alternatively stepping from the moving surface to a fixed surface and back again onto the moving surface; and

c) repeating steps (a) and (b) as part of the exercise method wherein the fixed surface is comprised of platform edges that run along on either side of the moving surface.