GENERAL-PURPOSE EXERCISER Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: sportive equipment. SUBSTANCE: exerciser has cable-and-pulley system, board, handles, two independent weight packs, carbines, movable platform provided with wings and mounted for displacement in vertical plane along guide arranged in mid part of frame, two carriages movable along platform wings. Board or two handles are fastened to carbines. Handles are connected to weight packs through closed cable-and-pulley system. Cable-and-pulley system has pulleys positioned on frame, movable platform wings, carriages and weight packs and embraced with cables. One end of each cable is secured on related carriage and other end is directed through pulleys, withdrawn from this carriage and fastened on carbine. Exerciser of such construction may be used as exerciser for working out separate groups of muscles. EFFECT: increased efficiency, simplified construction and wider operational capabilities. 2 cl, 3 dwg