Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing weight resistance
Patent
1997-10-14
1999-09-14
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing weight resistance
482 80, 482100, 482135, 482138, 482145, A63B 2304
Patent
active
059514450
ABSTRACT:
A multi-station exercise apparatus for use during a leg exercise routine during which the user lies in a supine position and bends his legs at the knees and waist between extended-leg and bent-leg conditions includes a frame and a bench and utilizes two pairs of movable stirrups arranged generally above the bench at opposite ends thereof. The stirrups are adapted to accept the feet of the user as the user lies upon the bench in the supine position and to move with the feet as the legs of the user are bent at the knees and waist between extended-leg and bent-leg conditions. The frame includes two sets of guide rods disposed at each of the opposite ends of the bench for guiding the movement of the two pairs of stirrups generally upwardly and downwardly along predetermined paths as the user selectively moves either the first or second pair of the stirrups with his feet as the feet are moved between the bent-leg and extended-leg conditions. Weight-supporting carriages are connected to each pair of stirrups by way of cable and pulley arrangements for resisting the attempted movement of the user's feet as the user attempts to selectively move either the first or second pair of stirrups upwardly or downwardly with his feet as his feet are moved between the bent-leg and extended-leg conditions.
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Vittone Larry W.
Vittone Suzanne R.
Apley Richard J.
Hwang Victor K.
McKee Michael E.
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