Fecha de publicación:
26/10/2020
Fuente: WIPO "bee"
The present invention provides an exercise apparatus which enables a user to move the legs while placing the lower end of the arm on the thigh in a sitting or lying posture to minimize load or stress applied to the knee and ankle joints when performing an exercise, such as leg press, total hip, a fixed indoor bicycle, or an outdoor bicycle, suitable for quadriceps and glutes exercises, thereby reinforcing the quadriceps and the glutes while protecting knee and ankle joints. To this end, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the exercise apparatus comprises: a seat unit enabling a user to sit or lie thereon; an arm rotationally attached to a coxa portion of the user on a sagittal plane; and a structure allowing one end of the arm to be rotationally hung to the user prime;s thigh. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the exercise apparatus comprises various resistant bodies generating a resistant force against rotation of the arm unit and a device to enable the user to change a rotary shaft. According to another embodiment of the present invention, the exercise apparatus comprises two different rotary shafts installed in one arm. Moreover, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the exercise apparatus has a bicycle shape, is configured to allow the rotary shaft of the arm to be placed at the coxa portion and allow one end of the arm to be hung the back of the thigh, and operates a rear wheel when being rotated in a clockwise direction in accordance with rotation of the arm unit (32) while being idled when being rotated in an anticlockwise direction, such that a bicycle is moved. COPYRIGHT KIPO 2021