Exercise apparatus including stall bars and exercise equipment mounted thereon

Claim 2

An exercise apparatus comprising a plurality of vertically spaced stall bars mounted in a supporting structure, a pair of separate parallel bar means each of which includes a mounting means for releasably attaching the corresponding parallel bar to the stall bars with the parallel bars projecting outwardly in parallel relationship from the stall bars, said parallel bars including grippable free outer end portions for hand gripping by exercising personnel and further adapted to telescopically receive auxiliary equipment, and auxiliary exercise equipment including telescoping attachment members adapted to detachably telescope over the free end of the parallel bars to provide a direct support of such auxiliary equipment.

Claim 3

The exercise apparatus of claim 1 wherein the mounting means of said parallel bar means includes a plate-like bracket member, a hook member formed on one end and offset from the general plane of the bracket member, said hook extending over the back and side and top of one of said stall bars with the bracket depending from said hook and resting against the front of the lower stall bars immediately below the hooked stall bar, said parallel bar projecting from said bracket, and a supporting brace member extending between the central portion of the parallel bar downwardly and inwardly to the lower portion of the bracket to form a supporting unit with the portion of the parallel bar outwardly of the supporting brace constituting said grippable free outer end portion.

Claim 4

The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said parallel bar is a tubular round member and said auxiliary equipment includes a member adapted to detachably telescope onto said tubular parallel bar.

Claim 5

The appartus of claim 1 wherein said auxiliary equipment includes a chinning bar including a pair of end tubular members adapted to detachably telescope over the outer end of the parallel arms and including a cross member extending therebetween.

Claim 6

The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said auxiliary equipment includes a bicycle sub-assembly comprising a pair of end tubular support members adapted to detachably telescope over the corresponding parallel bars, a pedal crankshaft member rotatably attached to each of the tubular support members and including a pair of oppositely offset pedal cranks located to define foot and hand engageable portions.

Claim 7

The apparatus of claim 5 wherein said oppositely offset portions include oppositely located parallel base portions, and a bicycle-type foot pedal rotatably attached to the corresponding base, said crankshaft terminating in bearing members having brackets secured to the sidewalls of the tubular mounting members.

Claim 8

The apparatus of claim 1 including additional auxiliary equipment comprising a rowing lever unit having an inner pivotal mounting means for releasable attachment to one of said stall bars and a support shaft projecting outwardly from said pivotal mounting means, an extension member releasably secured to said shaft in a plurality of axial positions, and a weight means secured to the outer end of the extension and having operating handles extending laterally to the opposite sides of the extension.

Claim 9

The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said auxiliary equipment includes a shoulder yoke means including a pair of laterally spaced interconnected yoke members having an inner end adapted to releasably telescope with the grippable free end portions of the parallel bars, shoulder pads secured to the outer end of the yoke members, and including additional auxiliary equipment comprising a pivotally mounted weighted lever having an inner end with pivotal means for pivotal interattachment to one of said stall bars and having an arm member projecting outwardly therefrom and terminating in generally corresponding spaced relation to the shoulder yoke unit, and a flexible member interconnecting the shoulder yoke unit and the pivotal arm, said arm including weight means.

Claim 10

The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said auxiliary equipment includes a pair of cradle members having telescoping support members adapted to detachably telescope with the corresponding parallel bars and including upwardly facing cradle members to support a laterally extending bar, said laterally extending bar being adapted to support weights. lever

Claim 11

The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said auxiliary exercise equipment includes a chinning bar member having a pair of end tubular members adapted to detachably telescope over the parallel bars and including a chinning bar secured between said elements, a pair of supporting bracket units, each of said bracket units including a tubular member to detachably telescope over one of said parallel bars and a U-shaped bracket extending perpendicular to the tubular member, a shoulder yoke unit including a pair of elongated tubular members adapted to detachably telescope with said parallel bars and including a laterally extending connecting brace adjacent the inner end of the tubular members, said yoke unit including a hook member provided on the cross brace and a flexible attachment means connected to said cross brace, and further including additional auxiliary equipment comprising a rowing lever unit having an inner pivot mount adapted to be releasably attached to one of said stall bars and projecting forwardly therefrom and terminating in the outer end in a weight assembly, said rowing lever unit being extendible to a plurality of predetermined positions, the outer end of said rowing lever unit having means for releasable attachment to said flexible connecting member for interconnection between the shoulder yoke unit and the rowing lever unit, an abdominal board having a pair of hook members on one end adapted to overlie any one of the stall barS and projecting forwardly therefrom, said board having a foot strap adjacent the hook end, said board having a pair of foot strap members spaced inwardly from the first harness member, a pair of deep knee bend harness members having means for releasable attachment to the abdominal board and each harness member having a loop member adapted to be located about the upper calf portion of the legs with the feet implanted within the feet strap members and having weighted pulley units provided to the opposite sides of the stall bar unit and secured to the supporting structure and a lat machine having a mounting bracket with an upper hook member for releasable mounting on one of said stall bars.

Claim 12

An exercise apparatus comprising a plurality of vertically spaced stall bars mounted in a supporting structure, a pair of separate parallel bar means each of which includes a mounting strap having an upper curved hook portion and a depending flat base portion of a length greater than the vertical spacing of two of said stall bars for releasably hooking the corresponding parallel bar means to the upper of said two stall bars with the base portion abutting at least the lower of said two stall bars, said bar means including a parallel bar projecting outwardly from the base portion immediately beneath the hook portion and in parallel relationship to the parallel bar of the other of said parallel bar means, and each of said bar including a strengthening member connected to the base portion thereof and to the parallel bar thereof in spaced relation to the outermost end of the bar, whereby the ends of the parallel bars define grippable free outer end portions for hand gripping by exercising personnel and further adapted to telescopiclly receive auxiliary equipment.

Claim 13

An exercise apparatus comprising a plurality of vertically spaced stall bars mounted in a supporting structure, a pair of separate parallel bar means each of which includes a mounting strap having an upper curved hook portion and a depending flat base portion of a length greater than the vertical spacing of two of said stall bars for releasably hooking the corresponding parallel bar means to the upper of said two stall bars with the base portion abutting at least the lower of said two stall bars, said bar means including a parallel bar projecting outwardly from the base portion immediately beneath the hook portion and in parallel relationship to the parallel bar of the other of said parallel bar means, and each of said bar including a strengthening member connected to the base portion thereof and to the parallel bar thereof in spaced relation to the outermost end of the bar, whereby the ends of the parallel bars define grippable free outer end portions for hand gripping by exercising personnel and further adapted to telescopiclly receive auxiliary equipment.

Claim 14

The apparatus of claim 1 including additional auxiliary equipment comprising a rowing lever means having inner pivotal mounting means for releasable attachment to one of said stall bars, a support shaft projecting outwardly from said pivotal mounting means, an extension member releasably secured to said shaft in a plurality of axial positions, and a weight means secured to the outer end of the extension and having operating handles extending laterally to the opposite sides of the extension.