Patent ID: 7288051

Claim:
An exercise device, comprising: a resistance device having a first end and a second end; an elastic grip body including: an upper arcuate end; a single row of finger openings forming an arc adjacent to the upper arcuate end; a thumb opening spaced below and to the side of the finger openings; a connector end opposite the arcuate end and positioned with respect to the finger openings and the thumb opening so that while fingers are inserted into the finger openings and a thumb is inserted into the thumb opening, the connector end resides below a wrist and proximal to a radius bone of the person using the exercise device; a center portion extending continuously between the finger and thumb openings and the connector end; a back, the back entirely protrusionless between the finger and thumb openings and the connector end; and a front, the front is entirely protrusionless between the finger and thumb openings and the connector end; a connection device attached to the grip body at the connector end and connectable to the first end of the resistance device, wherein the grip body allows for extension of fingers placed in the plurality of openings during a closed kinetic chain exercise and provides tension between the connection device and the openings due to an elastomeric quality of the grip body so that extensors of an upper body are exercised when the exercise device is used in the closed kinetic chain exercise, and wherein all connections between the resistance device and the grip body are distant from the openings toward the radius bone.