Patent ID: 7608030

Claim:
An exercise chair comprising a front support element, a rear support element, a seat coupled with the front support element and the rear support element, a lever hingeably coupled with the rear support element, a foot bar coupled with the lever, and a resistance element, secured at one location below the seat and at another location coupled with the lever, a structure defining an elongated slot coupled with the rear support element, a pivot pin contained within the slot, a support element hingeably coupled with the seat, and a pair of strut members, each having two ends, the first end of the first strut member hingeably coupled with the front support element, the first end of the second strut member hingeably coupled with the seat, and the second ends of each strut member hingeably coupled with each other at the pivot pin, wherein at least one support element is hinged so that the exercise chair can fold into a compact shape when not in use.