Patent ID: 7635323

Claim:
An exercise apparatus for use with a chair, the chair having a base, a pedestal having a lengthwise axis, and a seat having an outer margin portion, said exercise apparatus comprising: (a) a support assembly in the form of a split clam shell that includes a pair of outer removably attachable semicircular lengthwise split clam shell halves that are adjacent to one another at a split line that is adapted to removably attach to the pedestal, said split clamshell halves also including a split resilient liner being operational to substantially accommodate differing pedestal sizes, said support assembly also to be substantially adjustably interposed, sized and configured to be solely secured to the pedestal perpendicular to said lengthwise axis via a radial clamping force, said support assembly also includes an extension with a first end portion that is adjacent to said support assembly and a second end portion that is formed into a continuous outer periphery portion that extends outward, being substantially perpendicular to the chair pedestal lengthwise axis and extending to being approximately adjacent to the seat outer margin portion, said continuous outer periphery portion includes a plurality of asymmetric apertures disposed within said continuous outer periphery portion; (b) a means for removably engaging from the pedestal said split clamshell halves, (c) a plurality of elongate resilient members that each have a different spring rate for a different resistive force, each elongate resilient member includes a longitudinal axis, further each said elongate resilient member having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, each said proximal end portion is adjacent to, a single aperture that is disposed within said outer periphery portion, wherein operationally each said elongate resilient member has free omnidirectional movement by not contacting the seat outer margin portion when said longitudinal axis is substantially parallel to said lengthwise axis; and (d) a plurality of attachment elements each adjacent to each said distal end portion, wherein each said attachment element is adapted to removably engage to a portion of human anatomy for the purpose of exercise by extending along said longitudinal axis of each said elongate resilient member by moving each said attachment element away from said outer periphery portion causing a different resistive force at each said attachment element with each said resistive force wholly determined by a spring rate of each said elongate resilient member, wherein said plurality of elongate resilient members and attachment elements are operational to further increase a number of exercises accommodated for a user.