Patent ID: 7331911

Claim:
A shoulder press exercise machine, comprising: a main frame having a user support pivot mount, a forward end and a rear end; a user support pivotally mounted on the user support pivot mount for supporting a user in a seated position and movable between a start position and an end position which is rearwardly reclined relative to the start position, the user support including a seat portion and a backrest portion; at least one exercise arm movably mounted on the frame at a mounting rearward of the user support, the exercise arm having user engagement means for gripping by a user in performing a shoulder press exercise, the exercise arm being movable in an exercise movement in which the user engagement means is located higher at the end of the exercise movement than at the start of the exercise movement; a connecting linkage comprising means for connecting movement of the exercise arm to movement of the user support, whereby exercise movement of the exercise arm simultaneously rotates the user support in the same general direction as the exercise arm is moved; and a load separate from the user for resisting movement of at least one of the user support, exercise arm, and connecting linkage; whereby the combined motion of the user, user support and user engagement means substantially replicates the natural movement of the upper part of a human body when performing a free weight shoulder press exercise.