Patent ID: 7618356

Claim:
An improved exercise apparatus, comprising: an exercising shoe having a foot portion, a sole, an inner side and outer side, wherein the sole including a forefoot portion, an arch portion, and a durable heel portion, wherein said durable heel portion includes a hollow placement slot having a contoured interior cavity having a diameter, an upper and lower surface, and at least one opening, wherein said upper and lower surfaces each having a vertical, pin hole, wherein said pin holes are positionable along common axis; an resistance training assembly removably coupled within said interior cavity of said hollow placement slot of said exercising shoe, said assembly comprising; and a retractable wheel coil having a diameter smaller than said diameter of said interior cavity of said placement slot for being insertable horizontally into said placement slot and having a durable locking center pin including a top end and a bottom end, wherein at least one end is spring loaded, wherein said locking center pin includes a vertical axis for rotating said wheel coil therearound in a clockwise orientation, wherein said top end of said locking center pin is removably secured into said pin hole of said upper surface of said placement slot, and wherein said bottom end of said locking center pin is removably secured within said pin hole of said lower surface of said placement slot, wherein said wheel coil having a resting position and a working position, and a retractable mechanism and a locking mechanism, wherein said retractable mechanism is a spring loaded mechanism actuated during said working position for enabling said wheel coil to provide resistance, wherein said locking mechanism stops said retracting mechanism and prevents said strap material from coiling around said locking center pin; a segment of strap material including a first end, a medial portion and a second end, wherein said first end is removably coupled to said locking center pin, said medial portion is coiled around said locking pin; a detachable handle substantially rectangular and having a hollow interior grip portion having a plurality of gripping indentations, wherein said second end of said strap material is removably coupled to said detachable handle; and a substantially rectangular removable cover for covering said detachable handle and said hollow placement slot, wherein said cover locks into said hollow interior grip portion of said detachable handle.