Patent ID: 8668631
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: A63B,A63H

Abstract:
1. A method of exercising, comprising: engaging an appendage of the user's body with one of a pair of outer handles of an exercise device, each of the pair of outer handles being connected to at least one tether, the at least one tether being one or both of a pair of tethers extending through a pair of orifices formed in a central disk suspended between the outer handles; stretching the appendage by applying a force against the tether prior to performing an exercise; after stretching the appendage, grasping in each hand one of the pair of outer handles of the exercise device; moving one or both of the outer handles to cause the central disk to rotate to thereby cause the pair of tethers to twist about one another; and pulling the outer handles away from one another in a cyclic pattern to apply a cyclic pulling force to the tethers to cause the central disk to alternately rotate in opposing directions of rotation to thereby exercise one or more sets of muscles of a user performing the exercise.