Abstract: A dumbbell made of heavy material has a central bar, weight knobs at opposite ends of the bar and a guard-handle spaced from the bar a distance to allow the insertion of a user's fingers between the guard-handle and the bar, the bar, weight knobs, and guard-handle being one piece. Preferably, the dumbbell is made of cast iron and coated with a resilient coating. In another embodiment, the guard handle has a center span with a long reach and a short reach, spaced axially from one another to define a belt-receiving gap.

Abstract: A weight augmenting device for a rider-type exercise machine comprises a U-shaped bracket with stiffly flexible legs and a bridging cross piece joining the legs along one edge of the legs, the legs being spaced a distance closely to embrace opposite sides of a rectangular post. A clamping mechanism squeezes the legs against the post. A weight holding finger is mounted at one end to the bridging cross piece and projects in a direction away from the legs. Weights are mounted on the finger. The bracket is selectively mountable on and demountable from the exercise machine post, which itself is pivoted at one end, and can be moved along the length of the post toward and away from the pivot point of the post, so as to increase or decrease the force necessary to move the post around its pivot.

Abstract: A hand and wrist weight assembly has a web with a finger-receiving part, a back section on which a hand weight is mounted along the back of the user's hand, and a wrist section on which a wrist weight, independent of the hand weight and spaced from the hand weight is mounted along the back of the user's wrist. The wrist section has a strap for retaining the assembly on the user's arm. The back section and wrist section are flexible both transversely and longitudinally to permit flexing of the user's wrist while the assembly is in place, and conformance to a part of the user's hand and wrist over which the back section and the wrist section extend. The hand weight and the wrist weight are both soft and complaint to the extend that they will conform to the contours of the back of the hand and the wrist. The wrist weight can take the form of one or more elongated, transversely extending, particle-filled pouches, secured to the wrist section of the web.