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Gymnastic machine

Gymnastic machine description/claims

The present invention relates to a gymnastic machine for training at least a given body region. In particular, the present invention relates to a gymnastic machine for training at least a given body region and for preventing traumas to this body region.

In the field of the so-called isotonic gymnastic machine it is well known to provide the working volume inside which a user interacts with gymnastic implements for training given body regions. Normally, the user approaches these gymnastic machines after having performed warm up exercises so as to reduce the risks of traumas to muscles or articulations. Normally, these activities are performed on the floor or using fixed implements such as wall bars, and those users most attentive to accident prevention are accustomed to accompanying cooling down of the muscles involved in the training exercise with a low impact activity substantially identical to that of the warm-up, thus interacting with the same implements described above, or by performing floor exercises.

In any case, each user who wishes to minimise the risk of injuries must alternately move from the fitness room with the machines to the room in which the muscle stretching floor exercises are performed and/or, alternatively to the room equipped with fixed abutments, such as the wall bars, which must be used each time one's muscles require to be prepared for the subsequent exercise and/or at the end of each exercise.

It is apparent that those wishing to carry out a training session on isotonic machines stressing different muscle regions should alternate the exercises on the machines with warm up and cool down pauses which must necessarily be performed by moving out of the room equipped with the machines. The need to reduce the times of training sessions, which is now a requirement for the majority of users, frequently causes them to forego the initial warm up and after training cool down exercises, with the consequence that the risk of injuries increases considerably.

In view of the above description, this situation seems susceptible to improvement; furthermore, the problem of avoiding traumas from torn muscles or articulations together with the problem of the lack of time available to frequent the gyms represents an interesting challenge for the applicant, which has taken action in order to make the gymnastic machines of the isotonic type more safe and usable in particularly fast training sessions.

Besides the problem of the need to reduce the time of training it should be specified that not all gyms have sufficient space available to set up rooms for floor exercises and more in general for muscle stretching; furthermore, even if this space is available, there is the tendency to minimise the extension to saturate the available space with machines.

In view of the above description, it would be desirable to have available a gymnastic machine which, in addition to enabling to limit and possibly to overcome the typical drawbacks of the art illustrated above, could define a new standard for the gymnastic machines of the isotonic type, and therefore both of the type that uses the so-called weight stack, and of the type with free weights, also called plate loaded.

The present invention relates to a gymnastic machine for training at least a given body region. In particular, the present invention relates to a gymnastic machine for training at least a given body region and for preventing traumas to this body region.

The object of the present invention is to provide a gymnastic machine which allows the disadvantages described above to be solved, and which is suitable to satisfy a plurality of requirements that to date have still not been addressed, and therefore, suitable to represent a new and original source of economic interest and capable of modifying the current market of gymnastic machines.

According to the present invention a gymnastic machine is provided, whose main characteristics are described in at least one of the appended claims.

Further characteristics and advantages of the gymnastic machine according to the present invention will be more apparent from the description below, set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate at least one non-limiting example of embodiment, in which identical or corresponding parts of the device are identified by the same reference numbers. In particular:

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a gymnastic machine according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a side elevation view of FIG. 1 with some parts removed for the sake of clarity;

FIG. 3 is a side elevation view of a variant of FIG. 1 in a first operating condition; and

FIG. 4 illustrates FIG. 2 in a second operating condition with some parts removed for the sake of clarity.

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