Adjustable exercise device and a device for adjusting an exercise device

• US 8,088,046 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2011
• Issued: 01/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sequential Holdco LLC
• Original Assignee: SPRI Products Incorporated
• Inventors: Flentye, Herbert T., Niederlander, Gregory
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh, Loan
• Assistant Examiner(s): GANESAN, SUNDHARA M
• Application Number:
  US13/072,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20110172063A1
• Time in Patent Office: 284 Days
• Field of Search: 482/52, 482/142, 482/19, 482/26, D21/336, 248/346.5, 248/188.2, 108/106, 443/117
• US Class Current: 482/52
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0458 Step exercisers without moving parts with movable steps A63B22/04
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/908 Adjustable

Abstract

An adjustable exercise device that includes one or more inclined riser blocks for readily elevating and inclining a platform to enable stepping and other exercises to be readily performed on an inclined platform. The inclined riser blocks may be matingly engageable with the bottom of the platform to elevate and incline the platform. The inclined riser block may include a top face matingly engageable with the bottom of the platform, a bottom face, and a central portion extending between the bottom and top faces and having a front and rear, the central portion increasing in thickness from the front to the rear. The top face extends at an incline.

Claims

1. A method of positioning a platform of an exercise device for use in exercise including:

(a) engaging a top face of a first inclined riser block of the exercise device with a bottom of the platform, and a top face of a second inclined riser block of the exercise device with the bottom of the platform, to incline the platform relative to a floor along a width of the platform;

(b) disengaging the first and second inclined riser blocks from the platform; and

(c) engaging the top face of the first inclined riser block with the bottom of the platform to incline the platform relative to the floor along a length of the platform.

2. The method of claim 1

wherein (a) includes engaging a base of the first inclined riser block with a top face of a first riser block of the exercise device, and a base of the second inclined riser block with a top face of a second riser block of the exercise device, to elevate the first and second inclined riser blocks relative to the floor.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein (c) includes rotating the first inclined riser block so that the top face of the first inclined riser block has an incline that extends substantially parallel to the length of a top surface of the platform.

4. The method claim of claim 2 further including (d) disengaging the first inclined riser block from the platform after (c).

5. The method of claim 1 wherein (a) includes orienting the first and second inclined riser blocks so that the top faces of the first and second inclined riser blocks each have an incline that extends substantially parallel to the width of a top surface of the platform when the platform is inclined relative to the floor along the width of the platform;

and (c) includes rotating the first inclined riser block so that the incline of the top face of the first inclined riser block is substantially parallel to the length of the top surface of the platform.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein (a) includes receiving in a first recess defined by the platform a protrusion of the first inclined riser block and receiving in a second recess defined by the platform a protrusion of the second inclined riser block.

7. The method of claim 1

wherein (a) includes engaging a base of the first inclined riser block with a top face of a first riser block of the exercise device, and a base of the second inclined riser block with a top face of a second riser block of the exercise device, to elevate the first and second riser blocks relative to the floor, including receiving in a recess defined by the base of the first inclined riser block a protrusion of the first riser block and receiving in a recess defined by the base of the second inclined riser block a protrusion of the second riser block.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein each of the top faces includes an incline.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein each of the top faces is inclined.

10. A method of adjusting an exercise device to incline a platform of the exercise device relative to a floor alternatively along a width or length of the platform including:

(a) engaging a top face of a first inclined riser block of the exercise device with a bottom of the platform, and a top face of a second inclined riser block of the exercise device with the bottom of the platform, to incline the platform relative to the floor along the width of the platform;

(b) disengaging the first and second inclined riser blocks from the platform; and

(c) engaging the top face of the first inclined riser block with the bottom of the platform to incline the platform relative to the floor along the length of the platform.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein (a) includes engaging a base of the first inclined riser block with a top face of a first riser block of the exercise device and a base of the second inclined riser block with a top face of a second riser block of the exercise device to elevate the first and second inclined riser blocks relative to the floor;

and (b) includes disengaging the first and second inclined riser blocks from the first and second riser blocks.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein (c) includes engaging a base of the first inclined riser block with a top face of a first riser block of the exercise device to elevate the first inclined riser block relative to the floor.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein each of the top faces includes an incline.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein each of the top faces is inclined.

15. A method of adjusting an exercise device to incline a platform of the exercise device relative to a floor alternatively along a width or length of the platform including:

(a) engaging a top face of a first inclined riser block of the exercise device with a bottom of the platform, and a top face of a second inclined riser block of the exercise device with the bottom of the platform, to incline the platform relative to the floor along the width of the platform, including receiving in a first recess defined by the platform a protrusion of the first inclined riser block and receiving in a second recess defined by the platform a protrusion of the second inclined riser block;

(b) engaging a base of the first inclined riser block with a top face of a first riser block of the exercise device and a base of the second inclined riser block with a top face of a second riser block of the exercise device to elevate the first and second inclined riser blocks relative to the floor, including receiving in a recess defined by the base of the first inclined riser block a protrusion of the first riser block and receiving in a recess defined by the base of the second inclined riser block a protrusion of the second riser;

(c) disengaging the first and second inclined riser blocks from the first and second riser blocks and from the platform; and

(d) engaging the top face of the first inclined riser block with the bottom of the platform to incline the platform relative to the floor along a length of the platform, including orienting the top face of the first inclined riser block to have an incline that extends substantially parallel to the length of the platform and receiving in the recess defined by the platform the protrusion of the first inclined riser block.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein (a) includes orienting the first and second inclined riser blocks so that the top face of the first inclined riser block and the top face of the second inclined riser block each have an incline that extends substantially parallel to the width of a top surface of the platform;

and (d) includes rotating the first inclined riser block so that the incline of the top inclined face of the first inclined riser block extends substantially parallel to the length of the top surface of the platform.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein each of the top faces includes an incline.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein each of the top faces is inclined.