Exercise devices

An exercise device including an elongate guide having a longitudinal dimension provided between spaced apart ends of said elongate guide, a pair of foot supports slidably mounted on and relative to the elongate guide for movement along said longitudinal dimension, a support adjacent to a side edge of said elongate guide for retaining a body engaging member, said body engaging member having a surface engageable by an individual using the device with feet of said individual in the foot supports and sliding along the longitudinal dimension of said elongate guide in opposite directions, whereby said body engaging member is adapted to support or stabilize the individual during movement of the individual as said individual moves along the longitudinal dimension of said elongate guide in each of said opposite directions;

• and a linkage system rotatably connected to the pair of foot supports and to the body engaging member through rotatable connections, said rotatable connections permitting interconnected movement of said body engaging member and said foot supports in a same longitudinal direction along the longitudinal dimension of the elongate guide.