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WO2010035109A1 - Maillot de bain pour entraînement à des sports aquatiques - Google Patents

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WO2010035109A1
WO2010035109A1 PCT/IB2009/006930 IB2009006930W WO2010035109A1 WO 2010035109 A1 WO2010035109 A1 WO 2010035109A1 IB 2009006930 W IB2009006930 W IB 2009006930W WO 2010035109 A1 WO2010035109 A1 WO 2010035109A1
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Gianfranco Lisitano
Maurizio Castagna
Carmine Argentiero
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D7/00—Bathing gowns; Swim-suits, drawers, or trunks; Beach suits
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B21/00—Exercising apparatus for developing or strengthening the muscles or joints of the body by working against a counterforce, with or without measuring devices
    • A63B21/06—User-manipulated weights
    • A63B21/0601—Special physical structures of used masses
    • A63B21/0606—Buoyant volumes to be submerged
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B21/00—Exercising apparatus for developing or strengthening the muscles or joints of the body by working against a counterforce, with or without measuring devices
    • A63B21/06—User-manipulated weights
    • A63B21/065—User-manipulated weights worn on user's body
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D13/00—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches
    • A41D13/0015—Sports garments other than provided for in groups A41D13/0007 - A41D13/088
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D31/00—Materials specially adapted for outerwear
    • A41D31/04—Materials specially adapted for outerwear characterised by special function or use
    • A41D31/18—Elastic
    • A41D31/185—Elastic using layered materials
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B2208/00—Characteristics or parameters related to the user or player
    • A63B2208/03—Characteristics or parameters related to the user or player the user being in water
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B69/00—Training appliances or apparatus for special sports
    • A63B69/12—Arrangements in swimming pools for teaching swimming or for training

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  • the present invention generally finds application in the field of the sportswear and particularly relates to a swimsuit for training in water sport, such as swim, water-polo, aquatic gym and all the sport disciplines playable into the water, either in a competition or at an amateur level .
  • water sport such as swim, water-polo, aquatic gym
  • all the sport disciplines playable into the water either in a competition or at an amateur level .
  • sportswear items such as tracksuit, swimsuit and the like, which items being designed to be used by an athlete exclusively during training, to provide training conditions harder than those typical of a competition, so increasing own performance.
  • the known sportswear items have a plurality of additional loads distributed in one or more areas thereof in such a manner to locate themselves, as the items are worn by the athlete, in correspondence of one or more muscles interested by the specific physical effort,
  • an excessive load such as the load of the swimsuit disclosed in the patent cited above, that is variable between 4,5Kg and 13,6Kg, could bring to the substantial variation of the dynamic condition of the athlete during training,
  • a similar swimsuit causes an excessive sinking of the athlete with consequent variation of the stroke dynamic relative to the normal conditions during a competition ,
  • a further drawback of the above disclosed swimsuit is constituted by the fact that the loads have to be pre-shaped as function of the specific anatomy of the user. Nevertheless, a too heavy and bulky wear item could comport excessive stress to the athlete which could not close the training session.
  • the object of the present invention is overcoming the above drawbacks, by providing a swimsuit for training in water sports that is highly efficient and ergonomic,
  • a particular object is to provide a swimsuit for training in water sports that, during training, produces dynamic conditions for the user which wears it on harder than those typical of a competition, simulating a balanced and distributed increasing of the muscular weight ,
  • a further object is to provide a training swimsuit that, during training, doesn't change the dynamic stability into the water relative to the typical stability of a competition in an effective manner ,
  • a further object is to provide a training swimsuit that doesn't have concentration areas for the additional loads.
  • a further object is to provide a training swimsuit wherein the additional loads will be applied only in correspondence of the muscles engaged in the typical movement of the specific sport, without weighing on sensitive areas of the user's body, such as the lumbar areas and the articulations, in such a way to allow more long and effective training sessions ,
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a training swimsuit whose additional loads have a relatively limited whole weight and which adapts to the specific anatomy of the user.
  • a swimsuit for training in water sport comprising a layer made of a first base material with an upper zone shaped to envelope at least the thorax region of a user's body and a plurality of loads associated to said layer over at least said upper zone to define respective areas with higher muscular load ,
  • the swimsuit is characterized in that the loaded areas are localized exclusively at the thorax region of user's body with exclusion of the abdominal and lumbar regions and of the arms, in such a way to not weigh thereon during training and keeping substantially unchanged and natural, during training, the motion attitude and the dynamic conditions of the user, as well the perception of the stroke.
  • the expression ''thorax region'' is intended to indicate the region corresponding, forth, to the pectoral region and to the rib region over the diaphragm and, back, to the region of the rhomboid, of the trapezius and of the latissimus dorsi ,
  • the swimsuit according to the invention will make the training conditions harder with respect to a competition but acting only at the muscles engaged by the effort and without overloading the lumbar region and the articulations of the upper limbs.
  • FIG. 1 is a front view of a swimsuit according to the invention in a first preferred embodiment
  • FIG. 2 is a back view of the swimsuit of Fig, 1;
  • FIG, 3 is a side view of the swimsuit of Fig. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is a front view of a swimsuit according to the invention in a second preferred embodiment;
  • FIG. 5 is a back view of the swimsuit of Fig. 4;
  • FIG, 6 is a side view of the swimsuit of Fig, 4;
  • FIG, 7 is a sectional elevated view of the swimsuit of Fig.l;
  • FIG, 8 is an enlarged view of a particular of Fig , 7 ,
  • the swimsuit of the invention may be used for training in various water sports, such as swimming, both pool or distance swimming, water polo, synchronized swimming, saving, or for disciplines such as spin-water bike, aqua-fitness, aqua-step, aqua-gym and the like,
  • a swimsuit for training in water sport comprises a first layer 2 made of a first base material with an upper zone 3 shaped to envelope at least the thorax region of a user ' s body .
  • loads are also provided, which loads, generally indicated with 4 and more clearly shown in the figures 7 and 8, are associated to the first layer 2 at the upper zone 3 to define respective areas 5 with higher muscular load,
  • the loaded areas 5 of the upper zone 3 are localized exclusively at the thorax region of user's body with exclusion of the arms, of the abdominal region and of- the lumbar region under the diaphragm.
  • the loads 4 don't weigh on the abdominal and lumbar regions and on the arms of the user during training, keeping substantially unchanged and natural the motion attitude and the dynamic conditions and also keeping unchanged the perception of the stroke,
  • the upper zone 3 of the swimsuit 1 could be divided in a thorax region 6 associated to the loads 4 and designed to came into contact with the user's thorax, that is the portion of the body up to the diaphragm, and in a abdominal/lumbar region 7, free of loads, which will lay itself under the diaphragm,
  • the thorax region 6 may comprise a front portion 8 and a back portion 9, with the first which could come into contact with the pectoral and the ribs region of the user, and the latter which could substantially come into contact with the portion of the back defined by the rhomboid, the trapezius and the latissimus dorsi .
  • the swimsuit 1 simulates a localized increasing of the muscles, without modifying the dynamic condition of the user into the water, for example keeping substantially unchanged the dynamic of the stroke during training with respect to that typical of a competition and the planar aspect on the water, producing increased friction for the corresponding sinking due to the loads, thus altering the specific weight of the athlete.
  • the loads 4 may be distributed in a substantially uniform way over the front portion 8 and over the back portion 9 and in particular they may be equally distributed thereover,
  • the swimsuit 1 may comprises a lower zone 10 made of a layer 2 in the first base material, or in a different material, designed to at least partially envelope the femoral zone of the user's body.
  • the lower zone 10 may comprise a couple of femoral areas 11, 11' , a plurality of localized loads 4 defining additional loaded areas 5 applied thereon,
  • the expression ''femoral areas'' will refer to the areas of the lower zone 10 designed to at least partially cover the lower limbs.
  • the lower zone 10 may be designed and dimensioned to cover the user's body over the pelvic and ischium regions, down to the lower third of the thigh or also beyond, for instance also over the legs .
  • the loads 4 associated to the femoral areas 11, 11' may be distributed at side portions 12, 12' thereof, thus not obstructing and weighing excessively the motion of the thighs, above all those rotation motions (''bicycle'') essential for the vertical floating in disciplines such as water polo, or the leg motions for the stabilization of the planar position during swim.
  • the upper zone 3 and the lower zone 10 of the swimsuit 1 may be made of two separate pieces but advantageously they may define a single piece,
  • the swimsuit 1 may be provided with loads 4 in both the zones 3 and 10, but it may also have no loads 4 at the lower zone 10.
  • a hermetic closure 13 for example a zip, velcro or the like, may also be provided, which may be placed at the front portion 8 of the thorax region 6 .
  • the base materials constituting the conformed layer 2 may be selected into the group comprising the natural or synthetic fibres of the type commonly used for manufacturing swimsuit for bath or competitions.
  • the used materials will be adapted to make the first layer 2 sufficiently elastic for adhering perfectly to the user's body.
  • the upper zone 3 and the lower zone 10 may comprise a second layer 14 made of a second base material joined to the first layer 2 at the loaded areas 5 to define one or more containing pockets 15 designed to hold corresponding loads 4.
  • This latter material may be similar to that of the first layer 2 or may be also selected among the fibres adapted to be used into the water without substantial alterations,
  • the application of the second layer 14 to the first layer 2 may be carried out by mechanical sewing or by chemical or thermal sticking or may be obtained contextually with the manufacturing of the swimsuit by the reciprocal plotting of the fibres,
  • the swimsuit 1 has a plurality of pockets, both in the front portion 8 and in the rear portion 9 of the thorax region 6, as well in the side portions 12, 12' of the femoral areas 11, 11' , which pockets 15 having relatively limited dimensions.
  • each pocket 15 may house and hold a load 4 of predetermined weight that may be variable as function of the extension of the corresponding loaded areas 5 and which could be preferably comprised between about 5Og and 30Og.
  • the swimsuit 1 has a pair of pockets 15, 15' at the front portion 8 of the thorax region 6 and only a pocket 15'' at the back portion 9, while it has only a pocket 15' ' ' , 15 1V for each of the femoral areas 11 , 11 ',
  • the additional load 4 applied to the swimsuit 1 will have weight relatively reduced with respect to similar known swimsuit of the art, as it has been observed that an excessive weight normally brings to such a sinking of the body as to modify the dynamic into water, making training less effective.
  • the whole weight of the loads 4 may be comprised between 2Kg and 6Kg and preferably between 2,8Kg and 5Kg,
  • the limited weight will also allow a better body adaptation to the load variations, reduce the stress and allow to conduct longer training session, preserving all the typical benefits of a training made in harder conditions.
  • the loads A may be deformable having a flexible structure to adapt to the anatomical configuration of the user, so as to not modify the hydrodynamic profile of the swimsuit.
  • each load 4 inserted in corresponding pocket 15 may be formed by a series of spheres 16, visible in figure 8 and referred generally with 16, made of a relatively heavy material ,
  • the dimensions of the pockets 15 and the number of the spheres 16 contained therein may be selected so to avoid relative sliding between the spheres 16 in side-to-side relationship, preserving their flexibility and the skill of shaping on the specific anatomy,
  • the spheres 16 may be made of a material having a specific weight greater than the base materials of the swimsuit 1 and for example they may be microspheres made of any metallic material, such as leads, steel and their alloys, or of plastic or composite materials with high density,
  • on or more loads 4 may be defined by a non-polymerized gel or by another material having fluid or semifluid consistency which eventually may define a matrix wherein elements or microelments having specific weight greater than the one of the matrix may be distributed or may define a single core .
  • the invention achieves the intended objects and particularly fulfils the requirement of providing a swimsuit for training in water sports that, during training, provides dynamic condition harder than those of a competition for the user wearing it, without substantially altering the dynamic condition and without weighing on the regions of the anatomy more sensible to the continuous stress, Thanks to the particular embodiment of the applied loads, and particularly to their flexibility, preshaping them as function of the specific anatomy of the user will not be requested, also reducing the whole dimensions of the swimsuit,
  • the swimsuit of this invention is susceptible to a number of changes and variants, within the inventive concept disclosed in the appended claims, All the details thereof may be replaced by other technically equivalent parts, and the materials may vary depending on different needs, without departure from the scope of the invention. While the swimsuit has been described with particular reference to the accompanying figures, the numerals referred to in the disclosure and claims are only used for the sake of a better intelligibility of the invention and shall not be intended to limit the claimed scope in any manner ,

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Abstract

L'invention porte sur un maillot de bain, pour l'entraînement à des sports aquatiques, qui comporte une couche (2) constituée d’un premier matériau de base avec une zone supérieure (3) formée de façon à envelopper au moins la région thoracique du corps d'un utilisateur, une pluralité de charges (4) associées à ladite couche (2) sur au moins ladite zone supérieure (3) afin de définir des zones respectives (5) avec une charge musculaire plus élevée. Les zones chargées (5) de la zone supérieure (3) sont localisées exclusivement au niveau de la région thoracique du corps de l'utilisateur, à l'exclusion de la région abdominale et des bras, de façon à maintenir sensiblement inchangée et naturelle l'attitude de mouvement et les conditions dynamiques de l'utilisateur pendant l'entraînement.
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GB2478766A (en) * 2010-03-17 2011-09-21 Response Physiotherapy Ltd Swimming garment
WO2012168698A1 (fr) * 2011-06-07 2012-12-13 Shelley Sinclair Bande lestée souple
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WO2018141338A3 (fr) * 2017-02-03 2018-11-15 Ungerechts Bodo Dispositif d'entraînement physique

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