Patent ID: 6241644
Filing Date: 2001-06-05
Classification: A63B,Y10S

Abstract:
A flexible exercise device for grasping by an exercising user comprising:A) first and second elongate side members extending side by side along a long axis;B) a plurality of spaced apart solid rungs maintained disposed transverse to the long axis and substantially parallel to one another, each rung attached at a first end to the first member and attached at a second end to the second member, a first of the rungs located at a first termination of the first and second members and a last of the rungs located at a second termination of the members, the rungs and the members maintained in spaced apart relation; andC) the surfaces of the rungs and the members provided with finger engaging grooves for enabling a hand grasping a rung to maintain a grip on the device while moving the hand under tension from one rung, along a member, and then to adjacent rung to increase tension gradually by advancing along the long axis.