EXERCISING APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A method and apparatus for exercising abductor or adductor muscles of the leg by supporting the body of an exercising person for rotation of the right and left legs for movement away from and toward one another and about an axis extending through the corresponding hip joints, while restricting movement of the legs to equiangular bilateral rotation away from and toward one another and thereby facilitating balanced exercise of right and left legs, while imposing on the legs a force resisting movement of the legs in at least one of the directions of away from and toward the other leg, and while varying the amount of resisting force imposed in a predetermined relationship to movement of the legs away from and toward one another during each exercising movement of the legs.