Patent ID: 8827877
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for performing a pulling, pressing, lifting or squatting exercise by pulling, pressing, lifting or squatting against a resistance mechanism comprised of one or more incremental resistance members each having a selected amount of resistance force, the apparatus comprising: a frame, a cable, a handle pulley, a rail, a handle mounted to the frame and interconnected to the resistance mechanism via the cable wound around the handle pulley that is mounted to the frame at a selected position accessible to pulling, pressing, lifting or squatting engagement by a user; a traveler having a selected resistance force, the traveler being movably mounted on the rail at a stationary start position, the traveler being adapted to engage the cable under a pulling, pressing, lifting or squatting force exerted by the user on the handle, the traveler being pulled in a forward direction along the rail starting from the stationary stop position against the selected resistance force under the pulling, pressing, lifting or squatting force exerted by the user through the cable; a stop mechanism adjustably positionable on the rail at one or more selectable stop positions each stop position spaced a predetermined distance along the rail away from the stationary start position of the traveler, the stop mechanism being adapted to prevent the traveler from travelling forwardly past a stop position selected by the user; wherein the cable is selectively interconnectable first to a first one of the resistance members and is further selectively interconnectable to one or more additional ones of the one or more resistance members; the selected resistance force of the traveler being less than the resistance force of the first one of the resistance members such that the pulling, pressing, lifting or squatting force exerted by the user on the handle acts first to pull the traveler along the rail to the selected position of the stop mechanism and secondly to move one or more of the multiplicity of resistance members after the traveler has been pulled along the rail to the selected position of the stop mechanism.