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Abdominal size reducer assembly

Abdominal size reducer assembly description/claims

The present application claims priority to the Indian patent application and hereby incorporated for reference herein. 1. Indian Patent Application No. 102/MUM/2006, titled “Abdominal size Reducer Support Assembly”, filed on Jan. 23, 2006.

The present invention is directed generally to an Abdominal Size Reducer Assembly. More particularly, the present invention is directed to an Abdominal Size Reducer Assembly designed to enhance comfort to lower back and pelvis when a user is lying on her back during certain abdominal exercises. More specifically, the present invention is directed to an Abdominal Size Reducer Assembly which includes a lower back and pelvic support which is designed to underlie the hips and lower back area of the user and a head support to be placed under the head of the user. The Pelvic and lower back assembly and the head support assembly can be used independent to each other or combined into a single Abdominal Size Reducer Assembly.

The use of specially designed pillows for supporting back while sleeping, sitting, making a pregnant woman more comfortable while lying on her side on a mattress, while feeding a baby is generally known.

Various abdominal exercises for fat reduction and measurement reduction of upper abdomen and lower abdomen are commonly practiced in all gymnasiums. However, for user who has an abdominal obesity and has never exercised in the past finds most of these exercises very strenuous and painful to perform as compared to other exercises such as free weights lifting, lat pulley, peck deck or leg exercises. The main reason is that in all the abovementioned exercises the user has a choice of how much weight to lift. Dumbbells or barbells are available right from 1 kg to 100 kg. On the other hand in abdominal exercises a user has to lift either the entire upper body or the lower body which is practically half the weight of the user's body.

In most abdominal exercises either lower or upper half of the body is lifted while keeping the other half fixed on the ground. For example in the leg raising exercise in lie down position, the upper body above waistline is kept rigid in horizontal position and contraction of abdominal muscles lifts the lower body. Similarly in sit-ups exercise the lower body is immobile and the upper body is lifted during each repetition. When the user is lying down flat on the ground, the entire body of the user is in horizontal position. So the angle between the legs and head at the waistline is 180°. When the user raises the legs, the user reduces this angle to 90° (legs vertical) or even 45° (feet above head and thighs touching abdomen). It is important to note that while the person is in standing position and when the person bends, the angle thus formed at the waistline reduces from 180° to 90° and then to 45°. But the difference is that here, the bending and straightening of the upper body is caused due to the back muscles and not the abdominal muscles.

Electronic gadgets like a tummy trimmer, tummy vibrator are also used for abdominal size and fat reduction, but people have contradictory opinions about such therapies. Considering that physical exercise is still the best remedy for fat reduction, abdominal exercises can not be avoided. To reduce abdominal obesity, maximum exercise is necessary for abdominal muscles. Large number of repetitions of abdominal exercises are necessary to reduce abdominal obesity. However, not many repetitions of abdominal exercise can be done with ease due to the above stated problem.

If more and more repetitions of abdominal exercises could be done with ease and minimal stress or pressure is to be put on abdominal muscles, then there are two ways. First, to provide external support to reduce the weight of lower body or upper body that is to be lifted and second, (to make arrangement for the upper body to be rested in an angular position instead of in straight line) to change the positioning of upper body where lower body will be lifted during exercise. To give external support to the lower or upper body while it swings during exercise is not feasible. However, this invention supports and positions the upper body (from head to hips) comfortably in a particular angle so as to allow a user to easily swing legs and perform a large number of repetitions of the abdominal exercises with ease and without causing fatigue to the abdominal muscles.

U.S. Pat. No. 6,691,354 to Joseph A. Sheppard shows an inflatable therapeutic mattress for supporting a resting body in the prone position while maintaining proper spinal alignment, features an upper surface with a pair of opposing slanting surfaces originating from an elevated ridge, one slanting surface larger than the other. The larger slanting surface has a pillow to elevate the abdominal area of the resting body, and the smaller slanting surface has a pillow with a void to accommodate the face of the resting body.

U.S. Pat. No. 4,288,879 to J. L. Pate shows a wedge-shaped abdominal support pillow having a straight front edge adapted for insertion underneath the woman's abdomen while she is lying on her side. The upper surface of the pillow has a concave spherical configuration that conforms to the shape of the woman's abdomen, whereby the pillow provides abdominal support.

U.S. Pat. No. 4,397,052, to R. Lund shows an abdominal support pillow having approximately the same shape as the pillow in the Pate patent. The Lund patent additionally shows a back rest detachably attached to the abdominal support pillow, whereby the woman's body has a cradle-type support between the abdominal support pillow and the back rest.

U.S. Pat. No. 4,736,477, to G. Moore, shows a flat slab-like pillow construction adapted for positionment between the knees of a user, while he or she is resting or sleeping on a mattress. The pillow has a V notch in one edge, and a series of slits in the other edge, whereby the pillow can be bent into a buckled configuration, e.g., when the user is lying on his or her side with the legs in a bent or curled configuration.

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