Rowing exercise device

Claim 1

In an exercise device of the type having a pivotally mounted pair of right and left exercise handles and a cooperating resistance cylinder operatively connected to each for requiring the exerciser to independently urge said said handle through a pivotal traverse against the resistance of each said resistance cylinder during the exercising use of said exercise device, the improvement comprising in each said exercise handle a hollow gripping end in opposing relation to each other when said exercise handles are in a starting position preparatory to being urged through said pivotal traverse, a cylindrical handle-uniting bar having opposite ends sized to be projected into said hollow gripping ends of said exercise handles and having such operative positions in said hollow gripping ends when in spanning relation between said exercise handles, a detent means in each projected end of said handle-uniting bar for establishing an engaged relation thereof to said exercise handles, and a slightly oversized cylindrically shaped additional gripping handle disposed over said handle-uniting bar and centered between said gripping ends of said exercise handles, whereby said additional gripping handle is adapted to be gripped in both hands of the exerciser and undergo counter-rotation to the direction of the pivotal traverse about said handle-unit bar, so as to contribute to obviating any slippage in the exerciser's grip thereof during said pivotal traverse.