Patent ID: 7121989

Claim:
An abdominal exercise device, comprising: a bench dimensioned to support a user's body during an adnominal or related exercise; an inverted U-shaped frame rotatably coupled to the bench and rotatable about an axis that is generally parallel to and located along or below the user's body when said user is lying underneath said hand-gripping member during said exercise, wherein the frame comprises at least one vertical member coupled to a horizontal frame member, wherein the horizontal frame member is generally parallel to the bench; and a hand-gripping assembly slideably coupled to the horizontal frame member and shaped and dimensioned to be gripped by the user's hands during said exercise, wherein, with the user lying on his back on the bench and gripping the hand-gripping member with his hands, repeated sliding of the hand-gripping member along the horizontal frame member causes the user to perform abdominal crunches or related muscular exercises.