Upper body exercise apparatus, method and system

摘要

The present invention relates to an apparatus, method and system for a human individual to exercise his body in a novel manner wherein the user, when he is in the prone position, is able to move his arms, while holding the instant apparatus placed on a relatively flat surface, in all three planes of human motion simultaneously; i.e. saggital, frontal and transverse planes.

主权项

1. An upper body exercise apparatus, comprising:
two identical devices wherein a user grasps a cylindrically shaped handle generally oriented parallel to a supporting surface, on each device with each of his hands, being mounted in, and supported by a structure that is generally oriented perpendicular to said supporting surface, said structure being connected to and supported by a solid base, the base and handle support structure are fabricated as one molded piece, in said one molded piece solid base there are three or more spherically shaped balls placed in recesses within said base, in said same one molded piece a reduced diameter interference fit to retain said spherical balls within their respective recesses in said base being provided, high hertz contact strength bearing surfaces being integral in said recesses located within said single molded piece base thereby providing a low friction interface of the moving spherically shaped balls and the stationary recesses in said base, and said recesses capturing the upper half of said balls, said spherically shaped balls then permitting a user positioned in the prone position, to slide each of the two identical devices simultaneously while said user is grasping the handles of each devices in each of his hands, across a relatively flat surface, and in any direction simultaneously and independently, thereby allowing said user the capability of exercising said user's muscles and joints in said user's sagittal plane, and laterally in said user's frontal plane, and through said user's arm sweep rotation motions about a user's shoulders in the transverse plane, or in any possible combination of these aforesaid motions.