Abstract: An apparatus for exercising the lower back muscles of a user includes a frame, an arrangement mounted to the frame for resisting forward movement of the user's hips while maintaining the user's gluteus maximus and hamstring muscles in a relatively relaxed condition, a lever assembly mounted to the frame in a disposition for engagement by the upper back of a user for backward and forward user induced movement of the lever assembly for exercise of the user's lower back muscles and a resistance assembly operatively connected to the lever assembly for resisting the user induced exercise movement with a predetermined resistive force.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 19, 1994
Date of Patent:
May 9, 2000
Assignee:
Cline Children Class Trust
Inventors:
Gerald Stephen George, Michael Millard Luquette