Portable exercise device for the posterior muscle chain

• US 8,936,540 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2011
• Issued: 01/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Martin Lanell Kueckelhan
• Original Assignee: Martin Lanell Kueckelhan
• Inventors: Kueckelhan, Martin Lanell
• Primary Examiner(s): Crow, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): ATKINSON, GARRETT K
• Application Number:
  US13/025,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20120208682A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,439 Days
• Field of Search: 482/23, 482/38, 482/39, 482/92, 482/131, 482/140
• US Class Current: 482/131
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/024 with screws or pins in the earth
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/027 using player's own weight, e.g. on a platform
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4039 contoured to fit to specific body parts, e.g. back, knee or neck support arrangements for attaching exercising apparatus to the user's body A63B21/4001; handles, pedals, bars or platforms A63B21/4033
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2210/50 Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0211 moving torso with immobilized lower limbs

Abstract

A portable exercise device for the posterior muscle chain. The portable exercise device can include a first anchor and a second anchor, the anchors being oriented substantially vertically, and at least one central member coupled to and extending between the first anchor and the second anchor. The anchors can include a housing, a handle portion rotatably disposed at a first end of the housing, and an anchoring portion operatively coupled to the handle portion and disposed at a second end of the housing.

Claims

1. A portable exercise device for a posterior muscle chain, comprising:

a first auger and corkscrew anchor and a second auger and corkscrew anchor, the first and second auger and corkscrew anchors being oriented substantially vertically, the first auger and corkscrew anchor and the second auger and corkscrew anchor each formed integrally with a t-handle at an opposite end from the first and second auger and corkscrew anchors and disposed inside a first housing and a second housing, respectively, wherein the first housing and the second housing facilitate free rotation of the t-handle integrally formed with the first auger and corkscrew anchor and the second auger and corkscrew anchor within the first housing and the second housing, respectively;

a central member coupled to and extending between the first housing and the second housing;

a first end member coupled to and extending outward from the first housing; and

a second end member coupled to and extending outward from the second housing,

wherein the first housing is between the first end member and the central member, and the second housing is between the second end member and the central member and wherein each of the first housing and the second housing extend above and below the central member; and

further comprising at least one padding member coupled to each of the first end member the second end member;

whereby a user can mount the device in a ground surface and anchor his or her body during exercise.

2. The portable exercise device of claim 1, wherein the first end member and the second end member are oriented substantially horizontally.

3. The portable exercise device of claim 1, further comprising at least one vertical support member coupled to the central member.

4. The portable exercise device of claim 1, further comprising at least one vertical support member coupled to each of the first end member and the second end member.

5. The portable exercise device of claim 1, further comprising at least one padding member coupled to the central member.