Patent ID: 7364516

Claim:
A method of providing a resistance to an exercising handle moved from a backswing region through a curve to a hitting region to simulate a golf swing, the method comprising: arranging a first tension element to extend from the handle to an upper pulley arranged at a first resistance region above the shoulders of a person exercising and on a backswing side of the person exercising; arranging a second tension element to extend between the upper pulley in the first resistance region and a lower pulley in a second resistance region arranged below the hips of the person exercising and on a backswing side of the person exercising; arranging the second tension element to engage the handle in a region between the upper and lower pulleys: arranging the first tension element to resist downward movement of the handle from the backswing region to regions below the upper pulley; arranging the second tension element resist lateral movement of the handle away from both the upper and the lower resistance regions and into the hitting region; and selecting the first and second tension elements to exert a maximum resistance as the handle moves through the hitting region.