Patent ID: 8888661
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. An exercise machine for exercising at least a user's abdominal muscles, the machine comprising: a) a base having a front end and a back end; b) an arm lever actuated by a user's upper body, the arm lever being mounted to the base at or proximal to the front end of the base; c) a user platform actuated by a user's lower body and/or by the arm levers, the user platform being slidably and pivotably mounted at or proximal to a back end of the user platform to the base at or proximal to the back end of the base; and d) a linkage mechanism operatively connecting the arm lever to the user platform, whereby when the arm lever is moved in a direction towards the user platform, the user platform is moved by the linkage mechanism towards the arm lever and a front end of the user platform is moved by the linkage mechanism upwards thereby pivoting the user platform into an angled configuration, and whereby when the arm lever is moved in a direction away from the user platform, the user platform is moved by the linkage mechanism away from the arm lever and the front end of the user platform is moved by the linkage mechanism downwards thereby pivoting the user platform into a horizontal configuration.