Anchored HydroResistance Speed Training

Abstract

Anchored HydroResistance Speed Training is a running speed training apparatus and training method which is used/done underwater. The apparatus is used to firmly stabilize a floating person's hips while they carryout sprinting mechanics in a maximal rate of force development manner against the resistant environment of the water they are submerged in. The rationale is to enable water-resisted maximal rate of force production training using sprinting mechanics, where this otherwise is not feasible due to the lack of anchoring to a sturdy surface. The apparatus provides the necessary anchoring of a person to an affixed object and stabilizes the waist, iliac crest, anterior iliac spine, and thoracolumbar regions, without restricting limbs, thereby allowing the primary ranges of motion involved in sprinting. The base of the apparatus is firmly affixed to the floor of pools by way of a suction cup base or by being permanently installed into a pool floor.

Claims

1. I claim as my invention a running-speed training apparatus comprising: two upside down L-shaped rigid structures, where both structures are to be set on a swimming pool floor facing each other, with one structure being the left-side structure and the other structure being the right-side structure; both the left and the right rigid structures each having a suction cup base that enables the left and right structures, to be temporarily firmly attached to swimming pool floors upon activation of the left and right structure's base suction cup function, thereby establishing firmly anchored vertical aspects for each rigid structure which articulate into the horizontal aspects of each rigid structure forming two horizontal cantilevers; so that a person can adjust the height of the vertical aspects of the left and right structures, so that the left and right athlete hip cushions are approximately at the height of the person's hips, so that the person, with their anatomical frontal plane aligned with the horizontally extending cantilevers, can stand in the gap between the horizontally extending cantilever of the left and right structures, so that when the person sets the left and right structures close enough, the distal edge of the left and the right horizontally extending cantilevers articulating to the athlete hip cushion will clamp the respective left and right ilium regions of the person, upon activation of the left and right structure's base suction cup function.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a horizontally extending cantilever's latch that can be unlocked so that the corresponding horizontally extending cantilever swivels on the hinge, removing the clamping effects of the two horizontally extending cantilevers, allowing the person to step out of the gap between the horizontally extending cantilevers without having to squeeze or wiggle out of the otherwise clamping horizontally extending cantilevers.

3. I claim as my invention a running-speed training apparatus comprising: two upside down L-shaped rigid structures, where both structures are permanently affixed to a pool floor, with one structure being the left-side structure and the other structure being the right-side structure and both structures facing each other; where two firmly anchored cantilevers are formed by the horizontal aspects of left-side and right-side rigid structure, which are an articulations of the vertical rigid aspects of each structure, which are an articulation of the bases of each structure which are permanently affixed to the pool floor; so that if the person setting up to use the apparatus stands in-between the horizontally extending cantilevers of the left and right structures, and if the vertical aspects of the left and right structures are adjusted so that the left and right athlete hip cushions are approximately to the height of the person's hips, and if the left and right structures' horizontal width adjusting cantilevers are adjusted in length, the distal edge of the left and the right horizontally extending cantilevers which articulate to the athlete hip cushion can clamp the respective left and right ilium regions of the user of the apparatus.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 further comprising a horizontally extending cantilever's latch that can be unlocked so that the corresponding horizontally extending cantilever swivels on the hinge, removing the clamping effects of the two horizontally extending cantilevers, allowing the person to step out of the gap between the horizontally extending cantilevers without having to squeeze or wiggle out of the otherwise clamping horizontally extending cantilevers.

5. I claim as my invention a method for training running speed comprising: standing in-between a left-side structure and a right-side upside down L-shaped rigid structure that are permanently affixed to a pool floor and facing each other; and standing in-between so as to have the person's anatomical frontal plane aligned with the horizontally extending cantilevers of the left and right structures; adjusting the vertical aspects of the left and right structures' height, setting the height of the structure so that the left and right athlete hip cushions are approximately to the height of the person's hips; adjusting length of the horizontal aspects of the left and right structures thereby setting the width of the gap between both structures narrow enough so that the distal edge of the left and the right horizontal cantilevers can clamp the iliac crest and anterior iliac spine regions of the person standing in-between the left and right athlete hip cushion of the apparatus; having on a water aerobics flotation belt or another similar flotation device causing the person to float; closing the structure's belt and fastening the structure's belt, and floating while simultaneously having the waist and ilium regions firmly stabilized by the horizontally extending cantilevers and the apparatus belt, having the anatomical trunk stabilized and anchored; carrying out sprinting top-end speed running mechanics underwater in a resisted maximal rate of force production manner.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising using a left-side structure and a right-side upside down L-shaped rigid structures that can be removed off of the pool floor, wherein the two portable rigid structures each have a suction cup base; setting the left-side structure and the right-side structure on a swimming pool floor facing each other; aligning the left-side and right-side structures so that they are on the same plane; and moving both structures close enough so that the distal edge of the left and the right horizontally extending cantilevers that articulate into the athlete hip cushion will have a width gap distance that snuggly wedges the iliac crest and anterior iliac spine regions of the person standing in-between the left and right structures; having on a water aerobics flotation belt or another similar flotation device causing the person to float; wherein prior to closing the structure's belt and fastening the structure's belt, the base suction cup functions of the left and right structures are activated thereby temporarily firmly attaching the left and right structures to a pool floor and establishing a clamping of the left and right ilium regions of the person between the athlete hip cushions articulating from the horizontally extending cantilevers; wherein the floating person is simultaneously having the waist and ilium regions firmly stabilized by the horizontally extending cantilevers upon closing the structure's belt and fastening the structure's belt, having the anatomical trunk stabilized and anchored to the pool floor by the activating of both structures' suction cup base functions; carrying out sprinting top-end speed running mechanics underwater in a resisted maximal rate of force production manner.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

[0013] FIG. 1A. depicting an anterior view of apparatus

[0014] FIG. 1B. depicting a posterior view of apparatus

[0015] FIG. 1C. depicting a posterior view of apparatus (with unlocked latch for easy apparatus exit)

[0016] FIG. 2A. depicting an anterior view of apparatus (dip for arm swing passage embodiment)

[0017] FIG. 2B. depicting a posterior view of apparatus (dip for arm swing passage embodiment)

[0018] FIG. 3A. depicting an anterior view of apparatus (permanently affixed to floor embodiment)

[0019] FIG. 3B. depicting a posterior view of apparatus (permanently affixed to floor embodiment)

DETAILED DECRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0020] Two upside down L-shaped rigid structures, where both structures are to be set on a swimming pool floor facing each other as illustrated by FIG. 1A. through FIG. 3B. with one structure being the left-side structure 7 and the other structure being the right-side structure 9. The left and right bodies of the apparatus are firmly anchored to the floor of swimming pools by way of a sturdy suction cup base 14 which can be activated by pressing down on the base suction cup lever 10 (for the lever suction cup embodiment) or by pumping the vacuum pump handle 12 (for the vacuum pump embodiment). Additionally, there is one more embodiment (the permanently affixed to floor embodiment), as shown in FIG. 3A. and FIG. 3B. This embodiment consists of the same structure as illustrated in FIG. 2A. and FIG. 2B. with the exception that the left-side and right-side structures 7, 9 are installed to be permanently fixed into the floor of a pool 43, and with the distinction that this embodiment has both a height of athlete adjusting vertical aspect 16 and a width of athlete adjusting horizontal cantilevers 46.

[0021] Given the rigid strong material of the entire structure, when an person has both sides of the apparatus firmly affixed to the floor, and the athlete has their hip/pelvic region snuggly clamped between the two athlete hip cushion stabilizing pieces 17, 19, and if they're furthermore strapped in tightly with the apparatus belt 5, this will immobilize the person's waist/pelvic region. Due to the anatomy of the hip joint (more specifically the relationship between the ilium and the femur bones in humans), even though the waist and ilium regions are being immobilized and held tightly by both sides of the apparatus and belt, this would not preclude hip flexion and extension from occurring (i.e. it will not prevent a person's legs from carrying out the primary leg movements associated with top-end speed sprinting mechanics).

[0022] When the left and the right vertical rigid structure are adjusted in height 16, such that the extending horizontal aspects 20 of the left and right structure are approximately to the height of the person's hips, and if the left and right structures 7, 9 are aligned close enough so that if the apparatus is firmly affixed to the pool floor, either by way of the base suction cup lever 10 in the lever suction cup embodiment or by way of the base suction cup activation pump 12 in the vacuum suction cup embodiment, or by way of the permanently affixed embodiment, the distal edge of the left and the right horizontally extending cantilevers 20, which articulate to the athlete hip cushion 17, 19, will clamp the left and right ilium regions of the user of the apparatus, respectively.

[0023] So that if the person using the apparatus simply wears an water-aerobics flotation belt (or a similar flotation device) which, in about shoulder height water, will cause their feet to float just above the pool floor, and then if they simultaneously have their hips clamped by the athlete hip cushions 17, 19 which are articulations of the distal edges of the horizontally extending cantilevers 20, and if the user then has their waist/iliac crest/anterior iliac spine/thoracolumbar regions further firmly stabilized by putting on and fastening the apparatus belt 5 (which will have the additional sturdy support of the belt back pad 24), the user's anatomical trunk will be stabilized and sturdily anchored, so as to allow maximal running speed efforts to carried out by the user under water. Lastly, in-between exercise training sets (i.e. during rest/recovery instances), the athlete may unbuckle the apparatus belt 5 and as depicted in FIG. 1C, then unlock the right horizontally extending cantilever's latch 21a so that the horizontal cantilever can swivel downward by way of the hinge 22 (thereby eliminating the ilium clamping function prior established by the two horizontally extending cantilevers 20), and thus allowing the person to step out of the apparatus, without needing to wiggle and/or squeeze out of the otherwise established clamp.