Patent ID: 7955234

Claim:
An exercise device comprising a frame and exercise structure secured to the frame that enable a user to perform exercise movements with the exercise device, the exercise structure configured to enable a user to perform a plurality of exercise movements, including at least the following exercise movements, while providing variable resistance to each of the exercise movements: Bench press and row, Military press and lat pull down, Crunch and dead lift; wherein the exercise structure is further configured to enable a user to perform step and leg raise exercise movements, while providing variable resistance to each of such exercise movements; wherein the exercise structure includes a frame, a seat connected with the frame and a foot rest connected with the frame in a manner that enable a user's feet to press against the footrest when the user is seated and performing certain of the exercise movements on the exercise apparatus, and the exercise structure includes a first pair of arms that are pivotally connected with the frame and pivotal in opposite directions between a rear position when a user is seated on the seat and a forward position as the user performs any of the bench press and row and crunch and dead lift exercise movements while seated on the seat, and a first variable resistance structure connected with the frame and the first pair of arms in a manner that provides variable resistance to pivotal movement of the first pair of arms in both opposite directions as the user performs any of the bench press and row, and crunch and dead lift core exercise movements; wherein the exercise structure further includes a second pair of arms connected to the frame and to a second variable resistance structure in a manner that enables a user who is seated in the seat to perform military press and lat pull down exercise movements while the second variable resistance structure provides variable resistance to the movements of the second pair of arms as the user performs any of the military press and lat pull down exercise movements, wherein the second variable resistance structure comprises a pair of shocks, each of which has a fluid housing and a stem that extends into the fluid housing and is acted upon by fluid in the fluid housing to provide variable resistance to forces that are applied to the stem in opposite directions, and wherein the fluid housing and the stem of each of the shocks are attached to respective portions of one of the second pair of arms and the frame to provide the variable resistance, and wherein the fluid housing can be adjusted to provide additional adjustment of the resistance applied by either or both of the shocks to either or both of the second pair of arms; and wherein each of the second pair of arms is connected with the frame in a manner that allows lateral flexibility of the second pair of arms as a user performs any of the military press, and lat pull down exercise movements.