Patent ID: 8641586

Claim:
A personal stretching device to move a user's torso toward a distal structure, said personal stretching device comprising: an elongated tensile member operable to be attached to the distal structure; a shiftable uptake attached to the elongated tensile member at a proximal location, with the uptake operable to move along the elongated tensile member to change an adjustable length dimension defined between the proximal location and the distal structure; and a manually-powered drive mechanism operable to drive the uptake and thereby move the uptake along the tensile member, said drive mechanism including a driven element attached to the uptake and a pair of drive elements shiftably mounted relative to the uptake and operable to be shifted by the user relative to each other, each of said drive elements being drivingly coupled to the driven element independent of the other of said drive elements so that the user can drive the uptake by powering either one of the drive elements and thereby change the adjustable length dimension.