Exercise apparatus

• US 7,465,259 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2006
• Issued: 12/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mary Tom Hum, Mary Tom, Ms. Hum
• Original Assignee: Mary Tom, Ms. Hum
• Inventors: Mok, Harry
• Primary Examiner(s): Amerson; Lori
• Application Number:
  US11/523,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20080081747A1
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• Field of Search: 482121-130, 124/23.1
• US Class Current: 482/126
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/027 using player's own weight, e.g. on a platform
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0004 Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise bar bells or dumb bells A63B21/072; on wheels A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00043 Exercising devices consisting of a pair of user interfaces connected by flexible elements, e.g. two handles connected by elastic bands skipping ropes A63B5/20; resilient elements A63B21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00185 using resistance provided by the user, e.g. exercising one body part against a resistance provided by another body part A63B21/068 takes precedence; isometric exercise A63B21/0023
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0414 with both ends stationary during the actual exercise, i.e. moving only at intermediate locations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0428 the ends moving relatively by linear reciprocation
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0442 Anchored at one end only, the other end being manipulated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0555 Details of the rope or band, e.g. shape or colour coding
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0724 Bar-bells; Hand bars
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4035 for operation by hand
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0204 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0238 with stretched legs, like on a bed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport

Abstract

An exercise apparatus that is lightweight, easily transported, inexpensive and easy to use in performing a wide variety of exercises, the exercise apparatus including a rigid shaft formed of interconnectable limbs having a pair of spaced sleeve-sliders thereon and opposing end caps that receive a long resilient band having side lengths stretched along the staff and the sleeve-sliders thereon, and with each end cap also receiving a short resilient band with a handle thereon.

Claims

1. An exercise apparatus comprising

a rigid staff formed from rigid limbs connected end-to-end;

an end cap on each opposite end of said staff;

a long resilient endless band stretched between said end caps; and

a short resilient endless band attached to each of said end caps.

2. An exercise apparatus as in claim 1, wherein

each end cap has a first hole therethrough, said hole extending transverse to the axis of said end caps and said rigid staff;

a slot formed in the end of each said end cap remote from the staff attached thereto, said slot extending through the end cap transverse to the axis of the staff and into the first hole; and

wherein

the long resilient endless band is stretched and passed through the slot and into said first hole of each said end cap.

3. An exercise apparatus as in claim 2, further including

a second hole through each said end cap and engaging the slot formed in said end cap;

and wherein

each short resilient band is passed through a said second hole.

4. An exercise apparatus as in claim 3, further including

handles formed centrally of side lengths of the long resilient endless band.

5. An exercise apparatus as in claim 4, further including handles formed on each of the short resilient endless bands.

6. An exercise apparatus as in claim 1,wherein

the rigid staff has a length of between eighty cm and one-hundred cm.

7. An exercise apparatus comprising

a rigid staff;

an end cap on each opposite end of said staff;

a long resilient endless band stretched between said end caps;

a short resilient endless band attached to each of said end caps; and

a pair of spaced apart sleeve-sliders movable on the staff and movable towards and away from one another.

8. An exercise apparatus as in claim 7, wherein the sleeve-sliders are telescoped on and are slidable along the staff.

9. An exercise apparatus as in claim 8, wherein the long resilient endless band has side lengths extending alongside the staff between the ends of said staff and alongside the sleeve-sliders.

10. An exercise apparatus as in claim 9, wherein

each end cap has a first hole therethrough, said hole extending transverse to the axis of said end caps and said rigid staff;

a slot formed in the end of each said end cap remote from the

staff attached thereto, said slot extending through the end cap transverse to the axis of the staff and into the first hole; and

wherein

the long resilient endless band is stretched and passed through said first hole of each said end cap.

11. An exercise apparatus as in claim 10, further including

a second hole through each said end cap and engaging the slot formed in said end cap;

and wherein

each short resilient band is passed through a said second hole.

12. An exercise apparatus as in claim 11, further including

handles formed centrally of side lengths of the long resilient endless band.

13. An exercise apparatus as in claim 12, further including handles formed on each of the short resilient endless bands.

14. An exercise apparatus comprising

a long rigid shaft;

a long resilient cordless band stretched from end-to-end of said staff, said long resilient cordless band including a pair of side lengths extending alongside said staff and ends interconnecting opposite ends of said side lengths at opposite ends of said shaft; and

a pair of spaced apart grasping means reciprocably movable along said shaft towards and away from one another, each said means having said side lengths extending close thereto, whereby at least one said side length can be grasped during reciprocable movement of the said spaced apart grasping means along said shaft.

15. An exercise apparatus as in claim 14, wherein

the rigid staff is formed from rigid limbs connected end-to-end.

16. An exercise apparatus as in claim 14, wherein

said rigid staff includes an end cap on the end of each limb remote from the end-to-end connection of said limbs.

17. An exercise apparatus as in claim 16, wherein

each end cap has a first hole therethrough, said hole extending transverse to the axis of said end caps and said rigid staff;

a slot formed in the end of each said end cap remote from the limb attached thereto, said slot extending through the end cap transverse to the axis of the limb and into the first hole; and

wherein

the long resilient endless band is stretched and passed through said first hole of each said end cap.

18. An exercise apparatus as in claim 17, further including

a second hole through each said end cap and engaging the slot formed in said end cap;

and wherein

each short resilient band is passed through a said second hole.

19. An exercise apparatus as in claim 18, further including

handles formed centrally of side lengths of the long resilient endless band.

20. An exercise apparatus as in claim 19, further including

handles formed on each of the short resilient endless bands.

21. An exercise apparatus comprising

a rigid staff;

an end cap on each opposite end of said staff;

a long resilient endless band stretched between said end caps with opposite ends of said long resilient endless band secured to said end caps on said rigid staff and the lengths of said long resilient band between said opposite ends of said long resilient endless band extending alongside the longitudinal length of said rigid staff;

a short resilient band attached one of said end caps; and

another short resilient band attached to the other of said end caps.

22. An exercise apparatus as in claim 21, wherein

the rigid staff is formed from rigid limbs connected end-to-end.