Appeal No. 98-2352
Application 08/245,870
APPENDIX
1. An apparatus for exercising the lower back muscles of a user comprising:
a frame;
means mounted to said frame for resisting forward movement of the user’s hips to
direct the user’s gluteus maximus muscles to a relaxed condition and means mounted
to said frame for maintaining the user’s knees in a flexed condition for directing the
user’s hamstring muscles to a relaxed condition;
lever means mounted to said frame in a disposition for engagement by the upper
back of a user for backward and forward user-induced movement of said lever
means for exercise with the user’s lower back muscles in isolation and with the user’s
gluteus maximus and hamstring muscles in relaxed condition; and
resistance means operatively connected to said lever means for resisting said
backward user-induced movement with a predetermined resistive force.
10. An apparatus for exercising the lower back muscles of a user comprising:
a frame;
means mounted to said frame for supporting the user in a kneeling position to
direct the user’s hamstring muscles to a relaxed condition and means mounted to
said frame for blocking the user’s pelvic girdle thereby eliminating hip joint movement
and maintaining the user’s gluteus maximus muscles in a relaxed condition, said
means for supporting the user in a kneeling position being oriented generally
perpendicularly to said means for blocking the user’s pelvic girdle;
lever means mounted to said frame in a disposition for engagement by the upper
back of a user when the user is supported in a kneeling position on said supporting
means for backward and forward user-induced movement of said lever means for
exercise of the user’s lower back muscles; and
resistance means operatively connected to said lever means for resisting said
backward user-induced exercise movement with a predetermined resistive force.
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