Abstract: A computerized connection system between exercise stations, comprising an exercise machine or equipment item and interface means to allow the exchange of information between the user and the station itself, includes a telecommunication network operatively interposed between the exercise stations to allow the connection, information exchange and communication of the users of the individual stations.

Abstract: A device for varying, in an exercise apparatus, forces and movements between a movement organ and a resistive component. The device includes a pulley; a movable structure bearing a pivot pin for rotation of the pulley to which is applied a traction force. A cable element is wound on the pulley and forms a pair of parallel branches, whereof one branch is connected to the resistive component and the other branch is connected to a bar movable within a guide. The device also includes selective fasteners which, in a first operative condition, anchor the bar to the guide opposing twice the force of the resistive component to the pin; and which, in the second operative condition, allow the bar to translate until the bar abuts the movable structure, opposing a reaction force equal to the reaction force of the resistive component to the pin.

Abstract: A telecommunication system for exchanging information concerning personalized parameters of physiological state between a physical person and an information system comprises measuring means for measuring physiological parameters of the physical person; and processing means interconnected with the measuring means and with the information system, for transmitting to the information system at least input signals corresponding to the physiological parameters acquired by the person and for transmitting to the physical person output information corresponding to those received in return from the information system. The telecommunication system allows a dialogue between the physical person and the information system to control his/her own physical condition in a scientifically accurate and personalized manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring unit for a weight-stack gym machine where a frame supports a load unit equipped with a plurality of substantially identical weights. The weights have a hole through them to form a vertical channel for a load selecting bar. A remote load measuring unit is envisaged to calculate static and dynamic training parameters.

Abstract: An exercise machine, having a frame that supports a gravitational load set; the load set comprising at least a first body of determined mass movable vertically and at least a first guiding element associated to the first body; the load set comprising at least an additional guillotine load unit, selectable at will.

Abstract: An exercise machine with a variable configuration of a type that includes at least one posture portion and one machine portion. The exercise machine includes a reader to read a portable medium constituting a device for storage of protocol data of a user and/or an exercise, a motor-driven adjuster for adjusting a relative position between the posture portion and the machine portion, and a control device, connected to the reader and to the motor-driven adjuster, designed to change the relative position between the posture portion and the machine portion in accordance with the protocol data.

Abstract: There is disclosed a mechanism adapted to produce a plurality of different motions of a member affording a point for application of a force comprising: fixed disc means held in a fixed orientation; and at least one moveable disc means adapted to rotate around its origin and around the origin of the fixed disc means under the influence of the applied force; in which: the ratio of the radius of the fixed disc means to the radius of the moveable disc means is 2:1; the position of the point which the force is applied to is radially variable relative to the origin of the moveable disc means; and the moveable disc means is in communication with the fixed disc means so that rotation of the moveable disc means around the origin of the fixed disc means at a frequency f causes rotation of the moveable disc means at a frequency of 2f.

Abstract: An exercise machine comprises an organ able to be moved cyclically to exchange power with a user, interfacing means between the movable organ and the user to allow an exercise motion and means for supporting the user for the exercise; the machine comprises at least two portions connected to each other and mutually movable between two stable configurations, respectively: non operative in correspondence with which the two portions define a furnishing structure to cover the movable organ and the interfacing means and operative, for exercising, in correspondence with which at least a portion makes active the movable organ and the interfacing means.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a treadmill (1) in which the running board (2) may be attached at the rear, while the portion designed for the actual performance of the exercise is cushioned by resilient elements (33) that may have an undulating surface positioned substantially perpendicular to the direction of cushioning; moreover, the present invention allows the treadmill (1) to respond to the force created following the impact of the user's feet with various values, according to the change in the resistance offered by the cushioning means (3; 3′; 3″).

Abstract: A device for varying, in an exercise apparatus, forces and movements between a movement organ and resistive means, comprises a pulley; a movable structure, bearing a pivot pin for the rotation of the pulley, whereto is applied a traction force correlated to the muscle effort of the person performing the exercise; a cable element wound on the pulley, forming a pair of parallel branches, whereof one is connected to the resistive means, the other to a bar able to move within a guide. The device comprises selective fastening means which, in a first operative condition, anchor the bar to the guide opposing twice the force of the resistive means to the pin; and which, in the second operative condition, allow the bar to translate until it abuts against the movable structure, opposing a reaction force equal to the reaction force of the resistive means to the pin.

Abstract: An exercise machine for exercising the lower limbs; comprising a seating unit for the user, means for supporting the user's feet, opposite to said seating unit, and a load unit operatively connected to said means for supporting the user's feet to exchange power with the user's legs, said means for supporting the user's feet being movable between a position longitudinally approached to said seating unit, and a position longitudinally removed from said seating unit. Said means for supporting the user's feet comprise a first and a second foot board for providing support for a respective foot of the user.

Abstract: Machine for exercising muscles wherein at least one lever able to be actuated in rotation to exercise upper body muscles terminates with an elongated portion presenting a first longitudinal axis oriented in a determined direction; a handle being supported by the lever in end position by means of a respective sleeve; a first body substantially cylindrical and able to gripped by a user being hinged to the sleeve in correspondence with a second axis substantially transverse to the first axis, the first body being mounted on the sleeve in a manner allowing it to rotate around a determined axis; an adjustment set being provided to adapt the trajectory of the first body to the anthropometric measurements of the users.

Abstract: A load selector, in particular for an exercise machine in which a load to be used in an exercise is variable and is determined by a value of a sum of a plurality of weight elements which are associated, through related fastening elements, to a tugging element comprising a rod kinematically connected to appropriate connectors able to exert a force by a user; the weight elements can be stacked on top of one another and present corresponding holed portions able to define a channel for the rod, the rod presents, along its own longitudinal development, i.e.

Abstract: The invention relates to a physical training machine with attitude adjustment, of the type comprising at least a posture portion and an implement portion; the posture portion is provided with means able to allow a user to be positioned in an exercise configuration wherein the user him/herself is set to perform a physical training exercise; the implement portion is provided with action means, accessible to the user when he/she is positioned in exercise configuration and employable by him/her for the application of a force able to contrast, for the execution of the exercise, a resistance offered by the physical training machine; the physical training machine comprises means for adjusting the relative position between the posture portion and the implement portion acting on one thereof and connecting means, positioned and acting between the posture and the implement portions able to modify the position of one of the portions as derived by the change in position of the other one of said portions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a physical training apparatus comprising a platform that mounts a column forming a surface which can rotate in a plane perpendicular to the column and on which a part of a user's body can be rested. The rest surface is connected to movement transmission means and these transmission means are in turn connected through a gear mechanism to load handling means. The gear mechanism is designed to convert the rotational movement of the rest surface performed by the user into a rotational movement of the load in a plane perpendicular to the platform, the rotational movement of the load being performed by muscular effort controlled by the user through the entire arc of the movement performed.

Abstract: A system for programming training on exercise apparatus, with a series of exercises defining a personalized program, includes a central unit with first processor and a bi-directional data transferor; a portable medium, with a portable memory for data storage; a plurality of stations, not connected to one another by a data transmission line, and located at the exercise apparatus, with a second processor and a bi-directional data transferor from and to the portable medium, so as to receive as input the data in the portable memory relative to the exercise to be performed on an individual apparatus, for programming the apparatus, and so as to transfer as output to the portable memory upon completion of the exercise, data relative to the performance of the exercise so as to allow such data to be controlled.

Abstract: A system for programming training on exercise apparatus, with a series of exercises defining a personalized program, includes a central unit with first processor and a bi-directional data transferor; a portable medium, with a portable memory for data storage; a plurality of stations, not connected to one another by a data transmission line, and located at the exercise apparatus, with a second processor and a bi-directional data transferor from and to the portable medium, so as to receive as input the data in the portable memory relative to the exercise to be performed on an individual apparatus, for programming the apparatus, and so as to transfer as output to the portable memory upon completion of the exercise, data relative to the performance of the exercise so as to allow such data to be controlled.