Treadmill apparatus

Disclosed herein is subject matter that is entitled to the filing date of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/779,656, filed 6 Mar. 2006.

The following invention pertains to exercise equipment, and more specifically to treadmill apparatus which enables the user to exercise the upper body while simultaneously reducing the level of exercise exertion of the lower body.

The apparatus herein described enables a treadmill user to grasp a rigid member, such as a bar, and exert a force in a generally downward direction, thus exercising bicep, clavicle, deltoid, pectoralis, brachialis, brachioradialis, and other body muscles. The rigid member (bar) may be restrained to some degree in the transverse and longitudinal directions with respect to the treadmill, wherein the longitudinal direction corresponds with the front/rear, and transverse corresponds to a side to side direction.

One of the benefits in utilizing the present invention while simultaneously walking on a treadmill is that the user would be able to have a direct influence on, or effect a change, in the portions of the body that the user wishes to exercise. Furthermore, the user is enabled to reduce spine weight and fatigue at the lower body while the upper body is anxious to exert itself. In such a manner, the constraints imposed at the handle bar allow, for example, the user to grasp said bar, perform a “lat pull-down”, or some form of a lat pull-down, with or without the handle bar(s) being in motion. The dynamics thus available enable the user to perform a wide variety of exercises new in the art. Additionally, an inherent advantage, particularly when walking on a moving surface, is that while grasping the hand grips the user has an instant non visual sense of the user\'s relative position upon the treadmill belted region, primarily with regard to lateral restraints imposed on said bar. Also to be noted is that the right and left portions of the body may be exercised dependently or independently. For example, a user with an injured foot, ankle, or leg would nevertheless be able to exercise on a treadmill because of the potential to reduce weight at all, or at a specific region, of the lower body, whereas with prior art such a user had only limited types of exercise equipment suitable to use when in such a physical condition.

The prior art does not disclose the novel features of the invention disclosed herein.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a first embodiment shown with a user and a typical treadmill.

FIG. 2 is another perspective view of the first embodiment shown with a user and a typical treadmill.

FIG. 3 is another perspective view of the first embodiment, however the user and the treadmill is omitted. The reader will note that the present invention may be used without a treadmill.

FIG. 4 is a side view of the first embodiment shown with a user and a typical treadmill.

FIG. 5 is a top view of the first embodiment shown with a user and a typical treadmill.

FIG. 6 is a back view of the first embodiment shown without a user, and without a typical treadmill.

FIG. 7 is a zoomed fragmentary perspective view of a portion of the mechanism of the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a second embodiment shown with a user and a typical treadmill.

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