Abstract: A new method of performing a side plank exercise uses a side plank exercise device in the shape of a spherical cap or a cone. The side plank exercise device includes a front end that is circular or oval. The side plank exercise device also includes a rear end tapered from the front end. The rear end is a spherical cap. The front end has a flat or a cavitary surface. The front end also includes two recesses for receiving a left shoe and a right shoe. The two recesses are two inches deep and also uneven in depth. Each recess further incorporates a grip at its bottom. The grip includes protruding lines or spherical caps. The device further includes an edge at the front end that extends outwardly from the front end. The edge includes an attachment point with a crossbar and an attachment cavity receiving the crossbar.

Abstract: A clamp for exercise equipment. The clamp includes a body. The body is configured to receive a portion of a piece of exercise equipment. The body includes a first portion, a second portion and a hinge connecting the first portion and the second portion. The clamp also includes a neck. The neck is cylindrical in shape. The neck includes a first portion attached to the first portion of the body and a second portion attached to the second portion of the body. The clamp further includes a securing mechanism, the securing mechanism configured to secure the first portion of the neck to the second portion of the neck. The neck is configured to secure to an external handle when secured by the securing mechanism.

Abstract: A weight plate may be provided with an inner face configured for mounting on the outer surface of a bar and a securing mechanism arranged adjacent the inner face for selectively securing and unsecuring the weight plate relative to the bar. The securing mechanism may be capable of being locked in a secured condition with the weight plate secured to the bar and being locked in an unsecured condition with the weight plate unsecured from the bar. A control apparatus for the securing mechanism may be operable to switch the securing mechanism between the secured and unsecured conditions, and may include a trigger operable, with the securing mechanism in the unsecured condition, to switch the securing mechanism to be locked in the secured condition, and a handle operable, with the securing mechanism in the secured condition to switch the securing mechanism to be locked in the unsecured condition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a quick release weight retaining system configured to improve the safety and effectiveness of a resistance training routine. In an exemplary embodiment, the system includes a weight retainer that is removably mounted to a weight support member. The weight retainer includes an engaging apparatus that can retain and safely release a weight load during exercise. The weight is released by way of the exerciser activating a trigger. A weight can be safely and securely mounted to the weight retainer when pushed against the engaging apparatus.

Abstract: An exercise including a horizontal rail having a proximal end and a distal end. The rail is supported at a height by two or more vertical supports at the proximal end and distal end. A fixed member is positioned at the proximal end of the rail and have a pair of handles and a pair of arm support, wherein the positions of the pair of handles correspond to the positions of the two arm supports. The exercise apparatus includes a slide member slidably mounted to the rail and slide between the distal end and the fixed member. A user can kneel on the slide member while gripping the two handles and having the arms supported by the two arm supports. Once in position, the user can pull the slider member towards the fixed member against the resistance of a resistance mechanism.

Abstract: An adjustable dumbbell device includes one or more weight members and one or more weight elements each having two side panels to form a chamber, and an opening formed in each of the panels, two housings detachably engaged in the weight member and the weight element, two catches slidably engaged in each of the housings and engageable with the openings of the panels for anchoring the housings to the weight member and the weight element selectively, two followers are rotatably engaged in each of the housings and each include a gear engaged with the catches for moving the catches to engage with the panels and to anchor the housings to the weight member and the weight element respectively.

Abstract: A pulley in a housing designed for use with a flexible flat strap in which low friction movable guides in the pulley housing allow the flexible flat strap to enter, pass through and exit the housing through windows in the housing without the flexible flat strap jamming the pulley or being worn by contact with an edge of a housing window.

Abstract: A cable hook for fixing a rebound mat to a trampoline frame by means of two elastic elements and at least one flexible strap element has a housing with four receivers, wherein each elastic element has two free ends, each of which has a clamping element enlarging the periphery of the elastic element. A clamping element is inserted in each receiver. The cable hook has a cable hook body which is closed in the peripheral direction transversely to the fixing direction, wherein in each case two receivers are separated centrally by a receiving cavity in the cable hook body through which a clamping element can be passed. The cable hook has two terminating pieces which can each be inserted in a respective receiving cavity, and each has a cover rounding pointing away from the cable hook housing and oriented towards each other.

Abstract: An exercise machine is used to train the low back core musculature and lumbopelvic complex. The exercise machine can also be used to provide stability to the lumbar spinal column. The exercise machine includes a stationary bench substantially parallel to the floor and a rotating bench that is capable of rotating at an angle ? about an axis, wherein the axis is located between the stationary bench and the rotating bench. A resistance means is used to adjust the amount of force required to move a resistance bar away from the rotating bench, while performing at least one of: a plank, a side plank, a bird-dog, a superman, a lumbar extension, a glute bridge, a single leg raise, a dual-leg raise, a bent leg raise, or a resisted push-up.

Abstract: An end platform for an exercise machine for increased support of an exerciser's spine, neck and head which allows for an expanded scope of exercises that cannot otherwise be performed on the machine without the improved platform. The end platform for an exercise machine generally includes a novel, ergonomically improved stationary platform affixed to at least one opposed end of a substantially longitudinal exercise machine that includes at least a resistance biased reciprocating platform. The improved end platform provides for increased support of exercisers' spine, neck and head, thereby allowing for an expanded scope of exercises that cannot otherwise be performed on the machine without the improved platform, and further provides for the attachment of new and novel exercise equipment accessories to the exercise machine.

Abstract: An exercise machine may include a frame, a resistance mechanism supported by the frame, first and second pull cables supported by the frame and linked to the resistance mechanism, a power rack attached to the frame, first and second handles selectively attachable to the first and second pull cable, and first and second pulleys. The power rack includes upright posts configured to have barbell holders adjustably attached thereto such that the barbell holders are configured to be adjusted in various positions between highest positions and lowest positions on the upright posts. The pulleys are configured to selectively receive the pull cables to enable the pull cables to be selectively attached to a barbell to assist or hinder a user in lifting the barbell in a combined cable and free weight workout, the pull cables decoupled from the pulleys for cable workouts.

Abstract: A exercise equipment includes a weight bar, a plurality of weight plates slidably coupled at two ends portions of the weight bar from two free ends thereof respectively, and a weight bar stopper built-in at each of the end portions of the weight bar to increase a peripheral size of the weight bar at the end portion thereof to block the weight plate being slid out of the free end of the weight bar. When the weight bar stopper is actuated to adjust the peripheral size of the weight bar back to its original size, the weight plate is allowed to be slid in and out the end portion of the weight bar.

Abstract: A portable exercise device includes a pedal spaced away from and pivotably connected to a base and having a neutral position relative to a pivot axis. The pedal is configured to rotate about the pivot axis in a first direction toward the base and in a second direction, opposite the first direction, toward the base. The device also includes a resistance mechanism configured to exert a force on the pedal about the pivot axis in a direction opposite to the respective direction of rotation of the pedal. The device is movable between an open, in-use configuration, where the pedal is disposed in the neutral position to receive a foot and spaced away from the base, and a closed configuration, where the pedal is adjacent the base.

Abstract: This invention in the field of weightlifting assists a weightlifter in training more effectively, by providing an apparatus for decreasing weight during a weightlifting movement, such that more weight is lifted initially than must be set down again afterward. The apparatus consists generally of an arm extending from a hinge anchored at a fixed height, such that the arm may be placed atop a bar or barbell to be lifted. When the bar is lifted, the arm's position relative to the hinge causes the arm to fall off of the bar and remove the weight of the arm from the weight being lifted by the weightlifter. Thus, the amount of weight the weightlifter is lowering back down again is reduced compared to the amount of weight the weightlifter initially lifted.

Abstract: An exercise device includes a jug including a first external cutout portion and a second external cutout portion together forming an external cutout having a cross shape in the outer surface of the jug. The jug also includes a first, second, and third handle. The exercise device is configured to allow a user's wrist and forearm to enter the cutout portions.

Abstract: A multi-functional doorway exercise device is an apparatus that safely and securely attaches to a door frame. The apparatus includes a stabilizing bar, a main pullup bar, a first support bar, a second support bar, a left bracket assembly, a right bracket assembly, a left handlebar, and a right handlebar. The stabilizing bar extends across the width of a door frame and locks into the door frame. The main pullup bar, the left handlebar, and the right handlebar allows a user to grasp onto the present invention while performing various exercises with different grip positions. The left bracket assembly and the right bracket assembly attaches the stabilizing bar onto and along both sides of the door frame. The first support bar and the second support bar connect the main pullup bar with the stabilizing bar and allows the main pullup bar to rotate about the stabilizing bar.

Abstract: A leg attachment assembly for a stilt device of the type used to support a user above a base surface. The leg attachment assembly has a curvilinearly extending leg band configured to partially surround an upper leg portion of a user's leg. The leg band is attached to a distal end of a support pole using a pair of spacers and associated fasteners. One or more strengthening ribs extend in a lateral direction between contact locations of the spacers. The strengthening ribs extend beyond the spacers to enhance rigidity of the leg band during use. A securement strap can be used to encircle the user's leg and the leg band to attach the stilt to the leg. The strap can be routed between the spacers and over the top surfaces of the strengthening ribs so that, when the strap is tensioned, the ribs prevent slippage or displacement of the strap.

Abstract: A dumbbell and barbell supporting system includes two tables movable toward and away from each other and each having a plate, a casing and a bracket disposed on each of the plates and the bracket being movable and rotatable relative to the casing, two dumbbells disposed on the tables and each including two weight members and two weight elements disposed on the bracket and the casing, and two handlebars engageable with the weight members and the weight elements, the weigh members are movable toward each other, and the weight elements also movable toward each other, and a longitudinal bar is engageable with the weight members and the weight elements for acting as a barbell device.

Abstract: An exercising device including a lever or power arm which is able to be arranged by a first end on a retaining element at a first articulated joint in a way pivotable about a pivot axis or pin, whereby a resistance element is able to be coupled by a first end region at a first coupling point on the power arm, and by a second end region at a second coupling point at a second articulated joint on the retaining element. The exercising device is able to be detachably arranged on a structure by means of an engaging connection, which is formed by a hook-shaped recess and a rod-shaped element and whereby the exercising device is lockable in an engaged position by means of a fixation.

Abstract: A flexible sporting apparatus includes an elongated and flexible body (2), which can be gripped, connected to the body of a person or connected to another identical or different apparatus, wherein the body (2) includes at least one flexible connection element (10, 11, 12) extending between a first end (3) and a second end (4) of the body (2), at least for a part of its length, a plurality of masses (20, 21, 22), distributed between the first end (3) and the second end (4) of the body (2), joined integrally to the at least one connection element (10, 11, 12) so that their position, in the direction of the length of the body, is maintained substantially unchanged when the apparatus is moved or bent; and optionally a containment element (30) that surrounds the at least on connection element (10, 11, 12) and the masses (20, 21, 22).