Multiple station exercise apparatus

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides an improved multiple station exercise apparatus wherein all stations are continuously coupled to a common weight stack.
The various stations are arrayed about a frame of structural members.
A wide variety of exercise stations may be provided.
In the preferred embodiment to be subsequently described, these stations include a pectoral fly station, a high pulley station, a press arm station, a leg extension/curl station, a pulley station and a vertical knee raise station, only the last of which is not coupled to the weight stack.
A significant feature of the present invention is employed in association with the pectoral fly station.
In this aspect of the invention, operator movement of a pair of pectoral fly arms is resisted by the weight stack.
The resistance of the weights is communicated, in part, by a lever arm arrangement that couples the pectoral fly arms to the main pulley and cable system of the apparatus.
This arrangement significantly simplifies the cabling of the apparatus and reduces the number of pulleys and cables that would otherwise be required to accommodate the various exercise stations.
The aforementioned feature of the present invention can be readily expanded upon through an arrangement of multiple lever arms to provide a virtually unlimited number of pulling points or exercise stations in an apparatus having a single weight stack continuously coupled to all such stations.