Patent ID: 6962554
Filing Date: 2005-11-08
Classification: A63B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An exercising apparatus operable to permit exercising by an operator selectively through a range of exercising movements during substantially continuous exercising, the apparatus comprising: a frame having a contact surface defining an operator's station adapted to receive an operator in a supine attitude with the operator's upper body adjacent to a first end thereof and the operator's lower body adjacent to an opposite second end thereof; a track mounted on the frame adjacent to said first end thereof defining a first path of travel substantially aligned with and offset relative to the first end of the operator's station; a carriage supported by the track for movement along the first path of travel; a drive mechanism coupled to the carriage to move the carriage along the first path of travel; a pair of arms mounted on the carriage for individual substantially pivotal movement about a pivot axis that extends substantially normal to the first path of travel; a pneumatic system that is operably connected to said pair of arms so as to selectively resist said individual substantially pivotal movement of the arms about said pivot axis for purposes of exercising the upper body of the operator through a range of exercising movements; and a pair of control members mounted on at least one of said pair of arms, one of which is operable to operate the drive mechanism to move said carriage to a selected position along the first path of travel and the other of which is operable selectively to increase or alternatively to decrease the amount of resistance applied to resist said individual substantially pivotal movement of the arms whereby the operator can individually selectively control the amount of resistance to said exercising and said range of exercising movements.