Patent ID: 7481743

Claim:
A training machine for training muscles of an upper body of a training person, comprising: a machine main body; a seat unit provided supported by the machine main body, the seating unit being disposed to orient the training person facing in a forward direction of the training machine, a horizontal transverse direction of the training machine extending between left and right sides of the seat unit, the seat unit including a seat upon which the training person sits, the seat having a seat front side over which legs of the training person extend, and left and right scat sides; a pair of rotatable arms disposed in a vicinity of left and right sides of the seat unit; an electrical load generating unit for electrically generating a load in accordance with external forces exerted to the arms; each of the arms having a bottom portion thereof rotatably supported about a supporting shaft which extends substantially in the horizontal transverse direction, and each of the arms having such a curved shape at a middle part thereof and an upper portion terminating in a upper end portion thereof configured as a grip, and the rotation of the arms being lockable by the electrical load generating unit; the arms being rotatable between a farthest position whereat the grips are farthest from the seat unit and a closest position whereat the grips are closest to the seat unit, said bottom portions being inclined in a forward direction such that said middle parts of the arms bulge forward of said supporting shafts when said arms are at the closest position, said arms being lockable at said closest position; and each of the supporting shafts having a shaft outer end and a shaft inner end, said shaft inner ends terminating at a position transversely external to a space between first and second vertical planes defined by said left and right scat sides and extending in a front-rear direction orthogonal to said horizontal transverse direction such that the supporting shafts do not extend into an area forward of the seat front side.