Abdominal exercise device

Abstract

An abdominal exercise device including an upper abdominal lever member having engagement ends and an intermediate section for contacting a body of an individual and a lower abdominal lever member having engagement ends and an intermediate section for contacting a body of an individual with spring-biased resistance hubs releasably locked into said engagement ends of said upper lever member and lower lever member engagement ends, wherein operation of the lever members when rotated about the resistance hubs provides a scissor-like movement of respective upper and lower lever members connected to the resistance hub. The resistance hubs include a plurality of interchangeable resistance hub pairs of varying resistance.

1 . An abdominal exercise device comprising: 
 an upper abdominal lever member having engagement ends and an intermediate section for contacting a body of an individual;    a lower abdominal lever member having engagement ends and an intermediate section for contacting a body of an individual;    spring-biased resistance hubs releasably locked into said engagement ends of said upper lever member and lower lever member engagement ends    wherein operation of said lever members when rotated about said resistance hubs provides a scissor-like movement of respective upper and lower lever members connected to said resistance hub.    
   
   
       2 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said intermediate regions include foam rubber.  
   
   
       3 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said intermediate regions are contoured to brace the body of an individual.  
   
   
       4 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said resistance hubs include a plurality of resistance hub pairs of varying resistance.  
   
   
       5 . The device of  claim 4  wherein said resistance hubs pairs are interchangeable to vary resistance between lever members.  
   
   
       6 . The device of  claim 4  wherein said resistance hub pairs include indicia to relative resistance strengths.  
   
   
       7 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said engagement ends and resistance hubs include indicia to facilitate assembly.  
   
   
       8 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said lower lever member has an intermediate section contoured to brace against a front and inner thigh region of an individual.  
   
   
       9 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said upper lever member has a U-shaped configuration to brace the chest region of individuals of different heights and girth.  
   
   
       10 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said upper and lower lever members are contoured to a body of an individual to permit hands-free use of said device.  
   
   
       11 . The device of  claim 1  wherein when used with an individual said resistance hubs are maintained in spaced apart relation to said invidual.  
   
   
       12 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said upper and lower lever members contact a body of an individual away from an abdominal region.