The Sisyphean CHAMBER

The Sisyphean Chamber is a custom designed integrated exercise system that promotes fitness development through upper and lower body strength and stamina training and improves the balance and center of gravity of the user while incorporating a cardiovascular exertion. Its potential target audience is universal. We believe it is the future of upper and lower body strength training using gravity as an inexhaustible energy source.

The Leviathan BALL

The leviathan is housed within the Sisyphean chamber. the Leviathan is a 5 foot diameter solid rubber ball with a tactile surface and 2 foot diameter hollow filling chamber. A chamber within a chamber. Its purpose is to be advanced up and down the chamber laterally , vertically, simultaneously. This action improves upper and lower body strength, the center of gravity, stamina, balance and cardiovascular conditioning training using the gravitational pull on the ball itself. The optimum weight of Leviathan is 50-75 lbs without water/liquid. The filling chamber provides the ability to transform the 50-75 ball into a mammoth 335.68lb monster for larger more powerful athletesbut even at 50-75 lbs gravity itself, and repetitions will cause even the mightiest athlete to succumb to Leviathan. Gravity will cause them to quit and leave the Sisyphean chamber. Gravity itself makes it impossible to outwork the Sisyphean chamber.

The Sisyphean CHAMBER

Detailed Description: The Sisyphean Chamber is a custom designed integrated exercise system that promotes fitness development through upper and lower body strength and stamina training, improves the balance and center of gravity of the user while incorporating a cardiovascular exertion. It provides upper and lower body strength training using gravity as the inexhaustible energy source. To achieve the aforementioned benefits the chamber consist of an exercise chamber and an object (Leviathan). The chamber consist of a horizontal base, an inclined floor and four enclosing barriers. The inclined floor is padded to absorb impact and rubberized to increase the coefficient of friction relative to the shoes of the athlete thus insuring that every step taken in the chamber is true. No slipping, no wasted steps, no injuries. The angle of inclination, or the slope of the floor in the initial offering is 14 degrees relative to the base of the chamber. The use of Rubberized , tactile, sturdy athletic shoes is suggested to increase the coefficient of friction and make use of all lower body strength.

Rubberized tactile gloves are suggested to increase the coefficient of friction between the hands of the athlete and leviathan. The Spherical, weighted Leviathan ball causes the athlete to bend low, widen their base, Widen their stance, flex their muscles, widen hand placement in order to control and manipulate the ball up and down the inclined Chamber floor for a lateral and vertical exertion. Once this posture is taken it must be maintained in order to maintain control of leviathan during multiple repetitions. Leviathan is designed force the athlete to take and maintain a good, wide, powerful stance perfect for instance for football drive blocking performed by offensive lineman or bull rushing performed by defensive linemen to overpower an opponent. Upper body strength is improved by pushing the ball up the inclined floor and periodically extending the arms to force the ball away from the upper body. At the same time balance and center of gravity are improved by taking that perfect posture needed to maintain control of Leviathan throughout the chamber. Lower Body strength is also improved simultaneously with each low powerful driving step up the chamber floor and each strong lateral, vertical , decent down the chamber floor. the entire body must work in concert to maintain control of leviathan up and down the chamber floor.

Stamina is improved and a significant cardiovascular exertion is achieved by performing multiple repetitions up and down the chamber until Leviathan causes physical exhaustion. Again every athlete that enters the chamber succumbs to leviathan. Gravity demands that it be so. The more an athlete uses the chamber the more improved all these physical factors will become.

Over time, improvement in all these areas, we believe, gives the athlete a definite physical advantage in completion against athletes who have not used the chamber. We have provided the example of American football but improved upper and lower body strength, center of gravity, balance, stamina and cardiovascular endurance are advantages in every sport. More over a scalable Chamber can be used for the non athlete for general exercise and to combat childhood as well as adult obesity as well as a sedentary life style.

The Sisyphean CHAMBER

Research Device: The Sisyphean Chamber, in its purest form, is an exercise device to improve the overall physical strength, power, balance, center of gravity and cardiovascular endurance of athletes. A part of the Chambers natural design includes transparent walls to work in concert with a state of the art video recording system to measure the performance, body positioning, center of gravity, the physical work and the optimum manner of exercising in the chamber. This information could be useful in the chambers use as a research device in strength and conditioning training. A state of the art audio system is also a part of this optimum design to provide music to inspire optimum performance by the athlete in the chamber.

The Sisyphean CHAMBER

Scalable Device: The Sisyphean Chamber is a scalable device . The Dimensions of the Chamber are all scalable to suit the specific customer usage. The Chamber can be Designed with interconnected walls or Barriers and inclined floors to define multiple exercise chambers to create a complex of two or more fitness development systems. Leviathan is scalable in that it can be designed from 3 feet in Diameter to 7 feet in Diameter. The empty weight of the ball can be designed from 20 lbs to 75lbs( with the ability to add an additional 260.68 lbs of fluid) to accommodate all sizes of athlete and different levels of physical strength. The angle of inclination between the Chamber floor from the base can be adjusted to increase or decrease the gravitational pull on Leviathan and subsequently the amount of work performed by the athlete per set. The weight of Leviathan, the angle of inclination, the number and manner of physical repetitions up and down the chamber floor can all be manipulated in any combination to adjust the

Scalable Device: Amount of work done in the Chamber. Leviathan can also be used as a stand alone device on level Ground. The athlete would only be able to drive the ball forward as gravity would then only act on the ball itself but upper and lower body power, center of gravity and cardiovascular exertion would still be improved. The initial offering provides an angle of inclination of 14 degrees relative to the base. In another offering, the Angle of inclination can be bi-directionally adjustable with the use of a Hydraulic control unit for example. It is perceived that the Chamber can serve many applications such as but not limited to: (1) An Exercise device at U.S. Military Installations Home and abroad and as a recruiting tool for each branch of the Military, (2) An Exercise device and a recruiting tool at Division 1University Athletic Programs(Football, Basketball, baseball, wrestling..etc.) Look what Alabama can offer your son/daughter over LSU for example, (3) University Biomechanical Research Laboratories at Home and Abroad, (4) An Exercise device and a recruiting tool at Foreign Military Installations all over the world,

(5) Installed as an Exercise device Aboard US Aircraft Carriers Worldwide, (6) An Exercise device at Elementary, Middle schools, High schools and Colleges to defeat the problem of Childhood Obesity using Gravity, (7) Boot Camps dedicated to exercise Physiology and weight loss.

Summary: The Ball & Chamber uses gravity to improve muscular skeletal strength, power and speed in one integrated human performance system.