A machine for concurrently or independently performing pressing motions with the hands and feet, the machine having a base having front and back ends, two or more linear slide rails, a lower body user support with an engagement means for the user's feet and an upper body user support with an engagement means for the user's hands. The upper body user support and lower body user support slide on the linear rails that are located proximally on opposing ends of the base frame and the upper body user supports and the lower body user supports cooperate with one another to move in opposing converging and diverging sloping linear movement patterns during operation of the machine.

A belt for use in performing hip raising exercises is provided. The hip thrust belt of the present invention comprises a flexible supporting pad coupled to a flexible belt. Hook-and-loop fasteners are provided on the belt to secure the ends of the belt to dumbbells or other weights including barbell weight plates and kettlebells. The hip thrust belt allows the weights to hang on the outer sides of the user's hip and thereby increases the effort required to perform hip raising exercises. Hip raising exercises are believed to strengthen the gluteal and hamstring muscles.

An exercise training device for connection to a laterally extending overhead bar and use in modifying a toes to bar exercise, including at least one bar mounting assembly, an elongated, laterally extending target portion, and a spacer portion connected at a first end to and extending longitudinally away from the at least one bar mounting assembly, and removably connected at an opposed second end to the elongated, laterally extending target portion. Also disclosed is a method of positioning an exercise training device on a laterally extending overhead bar to modify a toes to bar exercise, including connecting to the laterally extending overhead bar an exercise training device having the aforementioned structure, and adjusting the exercise training device to extend downward and forward from the laterally extending overhead bar.

A cycling system includes a cycle having a frame with a resistance element attachment point, a resistance element, and a harness. The harness is releasably secured to the resistance element attachment point by the resistance element.

A fitness device contains a strap, a handle, and a plate. The strap is substantially inelastic and flexible. The plate is substantially rigid. The handle at least partially envelopes the strap. A method of exercising with such a fitness device is also described herein. Other fitness devices and other methods of use are also described herein.

An exercise system includes a frame, an upper body carriage, a lower body carriage, a positioning carriage, a resistance assembly attached to the frame, and a connecting mechanism. The frame includes a right guide rail, a left guide rail, and a central guide rail disposed between the right guide rail and the left guide rail. The upper body carriage includes an upper right and an upper left carriage slidingly attached to the right and left guide rail, respectively. The lower body carriage includes a lower right and lower left carriage slidingly attached to the right and left guide rail, respectively. The connecting mechanism mechanically couples one of the upper body carriage, the lower body carriage, or the carriage to the resistance assembly such that the resistance assembly applies a predetermined level of resistive force to the upper body carriage, the lower body carriage, and/or the tension carriage.

A hip thrust exercise guard comprising a pad, a bar insert in the pad to hold the bar of a barbell, and an adjustable band. The bar insert grips the bar of a barbell to prevent slippage during the hip thrust exercise, while still allowing slight side to side adjustments, in order to center the bar in the safest and most comfortable position. The attached adjustable band secures the pad around the hip in the optimal position for comfort, protection, and stability. The pad's soft foam construction and sculpted design contours to the hip area of the user.

A device for hip extension assessment or exercises, comprising a base, an upper body or back rest, a bar spaced horizontally from the upper body rest by a distance equivalent to a user's torso, the bar comprising a resistance mechanism, wherein the mechanism provides and measures resistance acting vertically at the bar.

Disclosed exercise systems may include a wavelike body having at least two peaks and a trough therebetween extending longitudinally along a longitudinal axis and a laterally along a widthwise axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the wavelike body including a core component and a surface component surrounding the core component, for example. In various embodiments, the wavelike body may have at least one aperture extending laterally therethrough for securing an elastic band. In some embodiments, the core component may be formed of a rigid foam, e.g., a Poly Foam, and the surface component may be formed a relatively softer foam, e.g., an EVA foam. In some embodiments a plurality of apertures for securing an elastic chord or ribbon may extend through a sidewall of the wavelike body. In some embodiments, at least one aperture may extend through the core component and the surface component.

According to the present disclosure, provided is a hip-up exercise apparatus. The hip-up exercise apparatus includes a frame defining an opening at one side thereof and fixing holes at both sides of upper surfaces thereof; a footrest portion disposed at the opening of the frame; a pair of pillars inserted into and coupled to the fixing holes of the frame; and a back supporter connecting upper portions of the pair of pillars and configured to support a back; and the pillars are separated from the fixing holes, are rotated downward, and are turned over, to attach rear surfaces of the pillars to upper surfaces of the frame.

The pillars are separated from the fixing holes, are rotated downward, are turned over, and protrusions are coupled to the fixing holes, to attach the rear surfaces of the pillars on the upper surfaces of the frame, and the footrest is moved inside the frame to a maximum position thereof through the rail, thereby minimizing volume of the hip-up exercise apparatus, facilitating storage of the hip-up exercise apparatus, and conveniently using the hip-up exercise apparatus at home.