TECHNOGYM S.P.A.

Measurement station for assessing the functional age of a user, comprising: a display and/or a loudspeaker; a controller presenting, via the display and/or the loudspeaker, instructions guiding a user in performing first and second tests for assessing the mobility of the body and the balance ability of the user; a camera which sends to the controller images of the user captured during the tests. The controller performs at least one of: calculating first and second functional age values based on the images captured, and an overall functional age value of the user based on the first and second functional age values; or sending the first and second functional age values to a remote controller that calculates an overall functional age value of the user at least based on the functional age values sent; sending data related to the images captured to a remote controller that calculates first and second functional age values based on the data received, and an overall functional age value based on the first and second calculated functional age values.

A monitoring system is for the regulation of the weight of a dumbbell, employable by a user for the execution of a gymnastic exercise, having a supporting frame, a dumbbell, placed on the supporting frame, equipped with a handle, having an axial development along an axis, capable of rotating around the axis, clockwise and counterclockwise, and equipped with a first end and a second end, a first plurality of weights, placed on the supporting frame, in which each weight is individually coupable to the first end by a first selection member, when the handle rotates one way, and detachable from the first end, when the handle rotates the opposite way, a second plurality of weights, placed on the supporting frame.

A gymnastic machine includes a frame, a movable lever, pivoted to said frame, so as to assume a lowered position and a raised position, and at least one weight, which can be coupled to said movable lever, wherein said gymnastic machine comprises at least one elastic element, which connects said movable lever to said frame, so as to oppose the elastic force aimed at compensating the force of said at least one weight when said movable lever is close to the lowered position.

The present invention relates to a system (S) for monitoring the weight adjustment of a dumbbell, which can be used by a user to perform a gymnastic exercise, comprising: a dumbbell ( 2 ), provided with a handle ( 21 ), having an axial development along an axis (R), able to rotate around said axis (R), clockwise and counterclockwise, and provided with a first end ( 211 ) and a second end ( 212 ), a first plurality of weights (P 1 ), wherein each weight can be individually coupled to said first end ( 211 ), when said handle ( 21 ) rotates in one direction, and decoupled from said first end ( 211 ), when said handle ( 21 ) rotates in the opposite direction, a second plurality of weights (P 2 ), wherein each weight can be individually coupled to said second end ( 212 ), when said handle ( 21 ) rotates in one direction, and decoupled from said second end ( 212 ), when said handle ( 21 ) rotates in the opposite direction, wherein said system (S) is characterised in that it comprises an element provided with a plurality of reflective portions ( 321 a, b, . . . , n ), in that it comprises at least one detection device ( 5 ) able to detect data coming from at least one reflective portion ( 321 k ) and able to send said data, and in that it comprises a logic control unit (U) able to receive said data sent by said at least one detection device ( 5 ) and to associate to said data a weight of said first (P 1 ) and second (P 2 ) plurality of weights. The present invention also relates to the method for operating such system.

A treadmill is provided which has a first supporting component of a surface of physical exercise of the treadmill and a second supporting component of the surface of physical exercise arranged on a first side of the surface of physical exercise and on a second side of the surface of physical exercise, respectively, parallel to a direction of longitudinal development of a base of the treadmill. The surface of physical exercise is mechanically connected to the first supporting component and to the second supporting component to slide along the direction of longitudinal development of the base of the treadmill. A plurality of load cells is arranged below the first supporting component of the surface of physical exercise and the second supporting component of the surface of physical exercise.

A method for determining information representative of a user's interaction with a surface of physical exercise of a treadmill is provided. The method, for each sampling time instants t i , with 1<i<N, of a plurality of subsequent sampling time instants t 1 , t 2 , . . . , t N , with positive integer N, involves detecting, by each load cell of a plurality of load cells, data representative of a respective local force vector value along a direction orthogonal to a portion of a surface of physical exercise of the treadmill at the load cell due to the user's interaction with the surface of physical exercise, and determining, by a data processing unit of the treadmill, information representative of a resulting force vector based on the data representative of the local force vectors detected by the plurality of load cells.

The present invention relates to a method for detecting the distance of portions of the body of a user (U) from a front part ( 121 ) of a gymnastic machine ( 1 ) provided with a detecting device ( 123 ), arranged on said front part ( 121 ) and a logic unit control (C), operatively connected to said detecting device ( 123 ), during the execution of a gymnastic exercise on an exercise surface ( 111 ), said method comprising the following step: detecting ( 100 ), by means of said detecting device ( 123 ), a plurality of distance values of at least one portion of the body (O) of said user (U) from said front part ( 121 ) of said gymnastic machine ( 1 ); processing ( 101 ), by means of said logic control unit (C), at least one first group of said plurality of distance values of at least one portion of the body (O) of said user (U), for calculating the distance of at least one portion of the chest (O 1 ) of the user (U) from said detecting device ( 123 ); and/or processing ( 102 ), by means of said logic control unit (C), at least one second group of said plurality of distance values of at least one portion of the body (O) of said user (U), for calculating the distance of at least one portion of the right leg (O) of the user (U) from said detecting device ( 123 ); and/or processing ( 103 ), by means of said logic control unit (C), at least one third group of said plurality of distance values of at least one portion of the body (O) of said user (U), for calculating the distance of at least one portion of the left leg (O) of the user (U) from said detecting device ( 123 ). The present invention also relates to an exercise machine that implements the method.

The present invention concerns a gymnastic machine ( 1 ) for training the trunk muscles and shoulder cingulum comprising a frame ( 2 ) for resting said gymnastic machine ( 1 ) on the ground or on a base, a first lever ( 4 ), comprising a first handle ( 42 ) which can be gripped by the user, coupled to said frame ( 2 ) in a first fixed fulcrum ( 41 ) and capable of rotating around said first fixed fulcrum ( 41 ) according to a first direction of rotation (R), from a first position to a second position, a second lever ( 5 ), comprising a second handle ( 52 ) which can be gripped by the user, coupled to said frame ( 2 ) in a second fixed fulcrum ( 51 ) and capable of rotating around said second fixed fulcrum ( 51 ) according to a second direction of rotation (R′), opposite to said first direction of rotation (R), from a first position to a second position, a resistant device ( 7, 7′ ) capable of opposing a resistance during the movement of said first ( 4 ) and second ( 5 ) lever from said first position to said second position, a transmission turn system ( 6 ) capable of connecting said first ( 4 ) and second ( 5 ) lever to said resistant device ( 7, 7′ ), wherein said first lever ( 4 ) comprises a first reference element ( 44 ), arranged so that, when the user grips said first handle ( 42 ), said first reference element ( 44 ) extends below the forearm of the user, in order to act as a reference for the position in which keeping the arm during the execution of the exercise, and said second lever ( 5 ) comprises a second reference element ( 54 ), arranged so that, when the user grips said second handle ( 2 ), said second reference element ( 54 ) extends below the forearm of the user, in order to act as a reference of the position in which keeping the arm during the execution of the exercise.