Abstract: A back brace with front and back panels supported on a waist-encircling belt which during tightening to empower the back panel to impart pressure against the user's back also urges the front panel in ascending movement to supplement the back panel-imparted pressure.

Abstract: An ice skater's exercise device which unrolls from a compact storage condition into an elongated rectangular plastic body or strip having a low friction surface for performing alternating side-to-side sliding movements thereon between a cooperating pair of raised and concave shaped stops, wherein the terminal portion of each slide is in a slightly ascending path which assists in terminating the directional nature thereof and causing a reversal therein.