Weight type exercising device

Claim 1

An exercising apparatus, comprising: (a) a triangularly shaped main frame including a base member adapted to engage a supporting surface, a generally vertically extending guide means connected to said base member and an angularly extending member interconnecting said base member and said guide means; said base member and said angularly extending member being disposed in a coplanar relationship; (b) body engaging means carried by said main frame for movement with respect thereto for engagement by the user during the performance of exercises, said body engaging means comprising a pair of spaced apart lever arms disposed on opposite sides of the plane of said base member and said angularly extending member, said lever arms being pivotally connected to said angularly extending member and having proximate one end thereof engagement means for engagement by the trainee; and (c) resistance means movable relative to said guide means and operably associated with said body engaging means for yieldably resisting movement thereof in a first direction, said resistance means being operably coupled with said lever arms intermediate their ends by coupling means, whereby said resistance means will yieldably resist movement of said engagement means in a first direction.