Exercise devices – User manipulated force resisting apparatus – component... – Utilizing weight resistance
Patent
1997-09-18
2000-01-04
Mulcahy, John
Exercise devices
User manipulated force resisting apparatus, component...
Utilizing weight resistance
402137, 402138, A63B 2106
Patent
active
060104376
ABSTRACT:
A standing push/pull exercise machine includes a frame with first and second frame sections located on opposite sides of a midplane, and defining a standing exercise position therebetween. Each frame section includes a pivotal lever which is pivotal against a selected weight resistance, preferably along a movement path which converges toward the midplane with respect to the forward facing direction of an exerciser. One of the frame sections and its corresponding levers is located further rearward of the other frame section and lever, and it is adapted for movement against a weight resistance via a pushing motion, while the other lever is adapted for movement against a weight resistance via a pulling motion. Thus, this exercise machine enables an exerciser to simultaneously perform, from a standing position, a pushing and a pulling exercise motion along prescribed converging paths of motion, thereby to achieve optimal "positive" and reverse exercise for the same muscle groups located on opposite sides of the body. A mirror image of the exercise machine may be used to work the muscle groups in the other direction, i.e., in a pull/push motion to get the full benefit of positive/reverse exercise motion along the prescribed paths. Also, simultaneous performance of the push/pull (or the pull/push) exercise motion provides muscular benefits for the midsection, due to a twisting effect generated at the torso.
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