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.

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.