Patent ID: 8740764
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
1. An exercise device for the thighs of a human, comprising: a first element, adapted in curvature to guide along and contact at least a large part of the outside of one of the human's thighs; a second element connected to and yet relatively hingedly movable with respect to said first element, also adapted in curvature to guide along and contact at least a large part of the opposed and outside of the other of the human's thighs; a muscular resistance-generating mechanism linking said first and second elements to impede the relative hinged outward motion of said first and second elements as thighs are moved outwardly with respect to one another and to thereby exercise the thigh muscles during such motion against said resistance-generating mechanism; a first set of magnets disposed in and extending along a substantial length of said first and second elements in a location directly adjacent to a large portion of the thighs, the thighs held by said elements during exercise and directed inwardly toward the thighs, said magnets adapted to provide depth of penetration of magnetic lines of flux directed into and along the muscles in the thighs being exercised by said exercise device, such that the magnetic lines of flux of said sets of magnets are adapted to penetrate into the muscles of the thigh of said human for providing efficacious and not insignificant, mere surface magnetic therapeutic effect during exercise; a supplemental and second set of magnets disposed on at least said first or said second element; and a ferromagnetic material disposed on the other of said first or said second element in a location so that the attractive magnetic interaction between said supplemental and second set of magnets and said ferromagnetic material is adapted to provide a gradation in the resistance force to be overcome during a repetition of the exercise device while opening and closing the thighs, separately yet simultaneously with said magnetic lines of flux penetrating said thighs.