Abstract: A weight lifting machine is provided with a readily adjustable stop bar for use in arresting the lowering of weights in use. The adjustment mechanism includes manually adjustable latches mounted at each end of the stop bar for engagement with passages formed in the upright frame members of the machine. These latches can be manually engaged by an operator standing in the weight lifting station and suitable slides are provided which cooperate between the stop bar and the upright members to maintain transverse alignment of the stop bar as it is moved vertically with respect to the upright members.

Abstract: A weight lifting apparatus for use in bench press and/or squat lifting exercises having a frame in which a pair of cables are mounted in a guide track with one portion of each cable depending into an exercise station located beneath a boom of the frame and another portion of each cable depends adjacent the upright portion of the frame. Stops are provided on the cable and the frame which interact and serve to limit the extent to which the cable may depend into the exercising station. Mounting clamps are provided at the ends of the cables which depend into the exercising station to which a weight-lifting bar may be secured in a horizontal plane extending therebetween. The stops serve to limit the extent to which the cables may depend into the exercising station so that, in use, the extent to which the weight support bar may be lowered is limited.