Patent ID: 7500938

Claim:
A rowing exercise device comprising: a base; two rowing widgets respectively set on two sides of said base, each rowing widget having a positioning shaft for coupling to the base; a sleeve case positioning shaft with a sway plate on one end and an car-like piece on an other end; a rowing handle having a lower end fixed on the ear-like piece of the sleeve case positioning shaft as a motion hub for rotation in opposing directions; a footrest widget having a sway stick with one end thereof set as a motion hub on a front end of said base so said sway stick is able to sway forward and backward, an opposing end of said sway stick having pedals disposed thereon; a hoisting widget having at least two parallel holding sticks, each stick having one end adapted as an up-and-down correspondent motion hub coupled to the base and an opposing end coupled to a linkage rod, wherein a driving rod is disposed on one of the holding sticks, a guiding track is disposed on an upper end of the linkage rod, and a cushion is disposed on the guiding track of said hoisting widget; and a driving widget including: a first linkage rod set as a motion hub at a position between the sway plate of the rowing widget and the sway stick of the footrest links the actions of the rowing widget and the footrest, wherein, when pulling the rowing handle backward to make the sway plate of the sleeve case positioning shaft sway forward, the sway stick of the footrest will be pushed to sway forward; and, when pushing the rowing handle forward, the sway stick will sway backward; a second linkage rod set as a motion hub at a position between the sway stick of the footrest, and the driving rod of the hoisting widget links the actions of the hoisting widget, footrest and rowing widget, wherein, when pulling the rowing handle backward to make the sway stick of the footrest sway forward, the driving rod of the hoisting widget will be driven to move forward and downward, and the linkage rod of the hoisting widget on the other end of said two holding sticks will be driven to move upward vertically, and when pushing the rowing handle forward to make the sway stick of the footrest sway backward, the linkage rod of the hoisting widget will be driven to move downward.