Patent ID: 7314438

Claim:
A portable exercise apparatus for toning an upper muscular region of a body while a person is walking/jogging, said exercise apparatus comprising: first and second handles suitably sized and shaped for fitting within left and right hands of a user respectively, said first and second handles being formed from non-porous and water impermeable material for resisting body fluid excretions during exercising procedures, each said first and second handles having medially disposed end portions provided with first and second spaced disc-shaped regions and a central cylindrical region monolithically formed with said first and second disc-shaped regions respectively, said central region being intercalated between said first and second disc-shaped regions and having a diameter smaller than corresponding diameters of said first and second disc-shaped regions for defining an annular path along an outer surface of said central region; first and second elongated shafts having lateral ends directly conjoined with said medial ends of said first and second handles respectively, wherein said first and second shafts are hollow, said first and second shafts having coextensive longitudinal lengths and further having arcuate shapes extending intermediately between said first and second handles, said lateral end being statically and permanently conjoined to said first and second handles; means for removably attaching said first and second shafts directly together such that said second shaft partially slides into said first shaft; and a plurality of portable weight members removably attached directly to said first and second handles respectively, said weight members being directly positioned against said central regions and statically engaged therewith during exercising procedures; wherein said first and second handles further comprise a linear stop member monolithically formed with said first and second disc-shaped regions, said linear stop member bifurcating said central portion and providing a gripping surface against which said weight members are directly engaged and thereby maintaining said weight members at static positions; wherein each of said central regions are counter sunk and offset from said first and second disc-shaped regions respectively, each of said weight members having opposed ends spaced apart and engaged with opposed faces of said stop members respectively wherein said weight members are medially positioned in between said first and second disc-shaped regions respectively.