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SHOULDER PRESS EXERCISE MACHINE

  • US 20080132389A1
  • Filed: 12/19/2007
  • Published: 06/05/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A shoulder press exercise machine, comprising:

  • a main frame having a user support mount, a forward end and a rear end;

    a user support frame movably mounted on the user support mount for supporting a user in an exercise ready position and movable between a start position and an end position which is rearwardly displaced relative to the start position, the user support frame including a first user support portion and a second user support portion;

    at least one exercise arm movably mounted on one of the frames at a mounting rearward of at least one of the user support portions, the exercise arm having at least one user engagement device for gripping by a user in performing a shoulder press exercise, the exercise arm being movable in an exercise movement in which the user engagement device is located higher at the end of the exercise movement than at the start of the exercise movement;

    a connecting linkage which connects movement of the exercise arm to movement of the user support frame, whereby exercise movement of the exercise arm simultaneously moves the user support frame in the same general direction as the exercise arm is moved; and

    a load separate from the user for resisting movement of at least one of the user support frame, exercise arm, and connecting linkage;

    whereby the combined motion of the user, user support frame and user engagement device substantially replicates the natural movement of the upper part of a human body when performing a free weight shoulder press exercise.

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