Patent Application
20240207670
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The disclosure relates to exercise devices and more particularly pertains to a new exercise device for assisting a user with performing exercise poses. The device includes an exercise mat with grid indicia defining a grid of squares in which the user can place their hands and feet. The device includes numbering indicia applied to the exercise mat which are each associated with a respective one of the grid of squares to assist the user with tracking their progress in the exercise pose.
The prior art relates to exercise devices including a yoga mat device that has a grid pattern and markers distributed at strategic points on the grid pattern to assist with positioning of feet, hands and body in yoga poses. The prior art discloses an exercise mat that has a plurality of concentric squares printed on the exercise mat, a plurality of numbers located in the middle of the concentric squares and alphabet indicia. The prior art discloses a yoga mat which has a grid pattern and numbering indicia surrounding the grid pattern. The prior art discloses an exercise product having a grid pattern with number indicia identifying rows and letter indicia identifying columns. The prior art discloses a yoga mat with a plurality of ovals and numbers printed inside each of the ovals. The prior art discloses a foldable exercise mat that includes electronic speakers.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising an exercise mat that is comprised of a resiliently compressible material thereby enhancing comfort for a user positioned on the exercise mat. Grid indicia are applied to the exercise mat which comprises a grid of squares thereby facilitating the user to place their hands or feet in selected ones of the grid of squares to assist the user with accurately performing exercise poses. Numbering indicia are applied to the exercise mat which comprises a series of numbers each associated with a respective one of the grid of squares to assist the user with placing their hands or feet a predetermined distance apart for altering a level of difficulty of the exercise poses.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
The Grid indicia 16 are applied to a top surface 28 of the exercise mat 12 and the Grid indicia 16 includes a series of first lines 30 each extending between a first lateral side 32 and a second lateral side 34 of a perimeter edge 36 of the exercise mat 12. The Grid indicia 16 includes a series of second lines 38 each extending between a front side 40 and a back side 42 of the perimeter edge 36 of the exercise mat 12. The series of first lines 30 are evenly spaced apart from each other and the series of second lines 38 are evenly spaced apart from each other. The numbering indicia 24 comprise a series of circles 44 each aligned with an intersection of a respective one of the series of first lines 30 and a respective one of the series of second lines 38. Each of the series of numbers 26 comprises the numbering indicia 24 which are located on a respective one of the series of circles 44. Each of the series of numbers 26 has a contrasting color with respect to a color of the series of circles 44 such that the series of numbers 26 is highly visible to the user 14.
In one embodiment each of the grid of squares 18 may have a length and a width of approximately 10.0 cm and the exercise mat 12 may have a length ranging between approximately 172.0 cm and 213.0 cm and width of at least 71.0 cm. In an additional embodiment each of the grid of squares 18 may have a length and a width of approximately 7.5 cm and the exercise mat 12 may have a length ranging between approximately 167.0 cm and 198.0 cm and a width 68.0 cm. In this way the exercise mat 12 can accommodate various sizes of users 14. The series of numbers 26 is arranged in numerical order along a predetermined set of axis to assist the user 14 with placing their hands 20 and feet 22 in the plurality grid of squares 18. In an embodiment most clearly shown in
In use, the exercise mat 12 is laid out to perform yoga or other exercise poses and the user 14 employs the grid of squares 18 and the numbering indicia 24 to locate the user's hands 20 and feet 22 for various exercise poses. In this way the grid of squares 18 and the numbering indicia 24 facilitate the user 14 to properly perform the exercise poses over and over again. Furthermore, the grid of squares 18 and the numbering indicia 24 facilitate the user 14 to track their progress with respect to range of motion and flexibility while performing the exercise poses. As is most clearly shown in
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
