Patent ID: 8075453

Claim:
An exercise apparatus for conducting upper body exercise simultaneously with lower body exercise, the apparatus comprising: a lower body exercise machine of any type; at least one upper body exercise module mounted anywhere on the lower body exercise machine, permanently or detachably, at least one upper body exercise module adapted to provide resistance to a full natural arm swing of at least one arm of the user, at least one upper body exercise module comprising: an elongated connector having first and second ends; a user engagement means connected to the elongated connector first end for engaging or being engaged by a body appendage of a user; a spool connected to the elongated connector second end and on which the elongated connector is adapted to be wound; a resistance mechanism for providing any type of resistance to a tensile force applied to the first end of the elongated connector causing the elongated connector unwind from the spool; and a retraction mechanism for automatically rewinding the elongated connector onto the spool.