Patent ID: 6908418

Claim:
In combination, a deadman with a door having a top closing across a lintel, a bottom, and two sides closing across door jambs in a building structure, the door having opening and closing faces on opposite sides thereof, a mounted exercise device comprising in combination: a door-mounted strap extending continuously around a door in the vertical direction from the top of the door to the bottom of the door across the opening and closing faces of the door; a tension-locking clamp on one side of the door for maintaining the strap in a snug surround over the door; a back-mounted strip between a door face and the door-mounted strap for distributing loading on the strap to the door, the back mounted strap having a width exceeding the door mounted strap; a series of D-rings fastened between the door mounted strap and back-mounted strip for forming exercise device support points to enable the door under urging of the door-mounted strap to act as a plate urged on a unitary basis into the lintel and doorjambs whereby distribution of exercise induced strain is distributed by the back mounted strap at the width exceeding the door mounted strap at the door periphery into the surrounding building structure; elastic strays having means for attachment and either end; the elastic straps fastened to the D-rings at one end; an exercise appliance for attachment with the body of an exerciser; and, the elastic straps to the exercise appliance at the other end to enable strain on the D-ring to be distributed to the back mounted strap at the width exceeding the door mounted strap to the door periphery.