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Gymnastic apparatus, particularly for exercising extensor muscles of inferior limbs thighs muscles and gluteus muscles

Gymnastic apparatus, particularly for exercising extensor muscles of inferior limbs thighs muscles and gluteus muscles description/claims

The present invention refers to a gymnastics apparatus, particularly for exercising the extensor muscles of the inferior limbs, thigh muscles and gluteus muscles.

Various gymnastics apparatus are known for toning up the extensor muscles of the lower limbs and, in particular, the gluteus muscles.

One of these consists in lifting a barbell loaded with various different weights where the user, initially with knees bent and the barbell held over the head, stands up, overcoming the force of the weights.

A similar exercise can be performed using special machinery featuring two padded horizontal levers which, arranged resting on the shoulders of the user, initially crouched, are lifted as far as the orthostatic position in contrast to a system of resistant counter-weights.

Alternatively, gymnastics apparatus are known consisting of a support frame for a seat sliding horizontally and associated, by means of a cable, a chain or the like, to one or more contrast weights.

In front of the seat is a vertical plate integral with the frame against which the user, sat on the seat with the lower limbs initially bent, can rest his/her feet to push the seat and cause this to run horizontally in contrast to the resistant force exercised by the weights.

Apparatus very similar to these, featuring a seat integral with the frame and a sliding plate, make it possible to perform completely identical exercises.

These exercises of known type are not without drawbacks, among which the fact that to perform them, unfortunately, the user's lower limbs and back, especially the spinal column and torso muscles, have to be at least partially loaded, in some cases applying strong pressure on the spinal discs.

For this reason therefore, during and after the exercise, troublesome and/or painful consequences can ensue.

It should furthermore be noted that in these types of exercises, the direction of the load remains constantly aligned with the direction of conjunction between the pelvis and the ankles of the user.

This means the resistant moment which contrasts the extension of the lower limbs of the user is reduced considerably as the user gradually comes closer to the final position, at which point the extensor muscles are practically unused and the entire load is placed on the bone structure of the body.

The effectiveness of the exercise and the development of the extensor muscles are therefore partial.

The main aim of the present invention is to eliminate the drawbacks complained of above relating to the known state of the art by devising a gymnastics apparatus, particularly for exercising the extensor muscles of the inferior limbs, thigh muscles and gluteus muscles, that makes it possible to achieve results, expressed in terms of the upgrading of muscle tone, decidedly superior with respect to those obtained by means of traditional exercises, without exercising harmful loads on the spine and back muscles of the user.

As part of such technical aim, another purpose of the present invention is to achieve the previous aims with a simple structure, of relatively practical implementation, safe use and effective operation, as well as of a relatively low cost.

This aim and these purposes are all achieved by this gymnastics apparatus, particularly for exercising the extensor muscles of the inferior limbs, thigh muscles and gluteus muscles, characterized in that it comprises a support frame for at least one gradually-yielding resistant element suitable for contact with the pelvic-abdominal region of the torso of a user moving from an initial position, in which the lower limbs of the user are at least partially bent, to a final substantially orthostatic position, the resistant action of said resistant element being directed along a direction substantially transversal to the longitudinal axis of the thigh bones of said user in movement.

Further characteristics and advantages of this invention will appear even more evident from the detailed description of some preferred, but not exclusive, embodiments of a gymnastics apparatus, particularly for exercising the extensor muscles of the inferior limbs, thigh muscles and gluteus muscles, illustrated by way of non limiting example in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

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