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Dynamic low impact plyometric exercise deviceRelated Patent Categories: Exercise Devices, User Manipulated Force Resisting Apparatus, Component Thereof, Or Accessory Therefor, Utilizing Weight ResistanceDynamic low impact plyometric exercise device description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060223682, Dynamic low impact plyometric exercise device. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for utilization during plyometric exercise to enhance the benefits thereof. [0003] More particularly, the present invention is a low-impact resistance device which has the unique benefit of increasing progressively the amount of weight that an exerciser must lift and accelerate while jumping upward but which minimizes the initial impact the exerciser experiences while landing from the jump due to the weight increase. [0004] Still more particularly, the present invention is a dynamic weight device which an exerciser carries while jumping that progressively increases the weight that the exerciser must accelerate on the jump upstroke yet minimizes the amount of initial impact an exerciser experiences while landing due to the extra weight he carries while jumping whereby the invention progressively imposes greater weight on the exerciser's muscles during the upstroke for resistance to muscle exertion yet does not re-impose that weight to be decelerated until after the exerciser has landed. [0005] Specifically, the present invention is a method and apparatus for adding an elastiedly suspended dynamic weight to a plyometric exerciser which the exerciser carries during performing vertical jumps and landings whereby the carried weight imposes essentially a zero amount of added weight on the exerciser during impact on landing from a jump but incrementally adds the full weight on the exerciser as he arrests his landing and reverses momentum to initiate his upstroke for the next jump. [0006] 2. Description of the Prior Art [0007] The use of various types of exercise apparatus in one form or another for the purpose of enhancing the effect of low resistance exercise is known in the prior art. However, despite the numerous designs, structures, and forms of apparatus which have been developed, disclosed, and utilized for the accomplishment of the specific objectives, purposes, and requirements of strength and health and muscle building exercise, the devices, machines, apparatus, and methods which have been heretofore devised to accomplish these goals consist basically of familiar, expected, and obvious configurations, combinations, and arrangements of well-known structural forms and apparatus. However almost none of them have been used to supplement plyometric exercise routines. This will become apparent from the following the description of the closest known and relevant prior art. [0008] Almost all types of exercise equipment designed for the purpose of building muscle strength are for slow muscle response and utilize the principal of lifting weights: either alone (free weights) or through the use of simple to complicated weight training machinery. None of this machinery has been designed for use in plyometric exercise which basically includes workouts based on a stretch/shortening cycle of muscle conditioning. It is characterized by rapid deceleration of a mass (a concentric that is a shortening muscular contraction) followed by almost immediate rapid acceleration of the mass (eccentric or lengthening contraction of the same muscle) in the same direction. Plyometric exercise, when used to train the muscles, nervous system, and connective tissue, can result in excellent results for competitive sports. [0009] The basic intent of plyometric exercise is to increase the elasticity of muscles and to increase the explosive force in the muscles for propulsion in a forward motion. The exercises include a various series of jumps such as single and double length jumps, bounding, standing and squat jumps, box jumps, running and shuttle drills. Plyometrics can include almost any type of the agility drills. [0010] The low impact plyometric resistance device contemplated according to the present invention departs substantially from the conventional concepts and designs of weight training equipment taught and used by the prior art, and in doing so, provides a method and apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of overcoming the problems as described above, but it accomplishes the result in a different and improved manner for effecting plyometric exercise more easily, conveniently and effectively. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0011] In view of the foregoing known, obvious, and described deficiencies inherent in the known types of exercise devices presently existing in the prior art for use in plyometric exercise, the present invention provides a new apparatus and construction for a low impact plyometric exercise resistance device wherein the same can be utilized in a new method to progressively (but rapidly) increase the weight which must be overcome by the muscle exertion during plyometric exercise but minimizes the initial impact weight experienced on landing from a jump but progressively increases the weight until the landing momentum is arrested and reversed. [0012] The general construction of the present invention, which will be described hereafter in greater detail, has been designed to provide a new and improved low impact exercise apparatus and method for use which has many of the advantages of the prior art of progressively increasing the load on the muscles to be exercised as mentioned and described above without increasing the initial impact loads. It is comprised of many novel features and advantages and performs the functions that result in a new plyometric exercise device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art of weight training and exercise devices heretofore known, either alone or in any combination thereof. [0013] The present invention is a dynamic low impact exercise device comprised of a tube having first and second end caps. An elongated dynamic weight is disposed between the end caps in the tube and proportioned to permit limited reciprocating movement of the weight in the tube. [0014] A collapsible tether interconnects the first or lower end cap and the weight. An elastic interconnection extends between the second or upper end cap and the weight whereby the weight is positioned to suspend generally intermediate the length of the tube whereby, when the tube is oriented vertically, it can move a limited restricted distance toward the second or upper end cap due to the tether but the weight can move a variable distance toward a first or lower end cap in the tube due to induced inertial momentum of the weight stretching the elastic interconnection. [0015] The more important features of the invention have been broadly outlined in the preceding summary of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof which follows may be better understood and in order that the present contribution to an improvement in the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto. [0016] With respect to the claims hereof, and before describing at least one preferred embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components which are set forth in the following description or illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The invention is capable of being created in other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed here are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. [0017] As such, those skilled in the art in which the invention is based will appreciate that the conception upon which this disclosure is predicated may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other forms, structures, apparatus, systems, and methods for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions in so far as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention. [0018] Further, the purpose of the appended abstract is to enable the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the public generally, and especially scientists, engineers and practitioners of the art who are not familiar with the patent and legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the specification, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way. OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION [0019] It is therefore an important object of the present invention to provide a new method and apparatus for use during plyometric exercise to enhance the benefits thereof. [0020] It is another object of the present invention to provide a low impact plyometric resistance device which can be carried by an exerciser in a vest or backpack, or combination thereof, while exercising which increases the load which the exerciser's muscles must accelerate during jumping and decelerate after impact. [0021] It is a further object of the present invention to provide a dynamic plyometric exercise device which adds weight during an upstroke when an exerciser jumps but removes the weight from the exerciser for initial impact upon landing and then adds it again. Continue reading about Dynamic low impact plyometric exercise device... Full patent description for Dynamic low impact plyometric exercise device Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Dynamic low impact plyometric exercise device patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. 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