Upper Body Exercise Apparatus, Method and System

An upper body exercise method, comprising:

• two identical devices having a user grasping a cylindrically shaped handle generally oriented parallel to a supporting surface, on each device with each of his hands, being mounted in, and supported by a support structure that is generally oriented perpendicular to said supporting surface, said support structure being connected to and supported by a solid base, in said solid base there are three or more spherically shaped balls placed in recesses within said base, a means to retain said spherical balls within their respective recesses in said base being provided, high hertz contact strength bearing surfaces being provided in said recesses located within said base thereby providing a low friction interface of the moving spherically shaped balls and the stationary recesses in said base, and said recesses capturing the upper half of said balls, said spherically shaped balls then permitting a user positioned in the prone position, to slide each of the two identical devices simultaneously while said user is grasping the handles of each devices in each of his hands, across a relatively flat surface, and in any direction simultaneously and independently, thereby allowing said user the capability of exercising said user's muscles and joints in said user's saggital plane, and laterally in said user's frontal plane, and through said user's arm sweep rotation motions about a user's shoulders in the transverse plane, or in any possible combination of these aforesaid motions.

An upper body exercise system, comprising:

• two identical devices wherein a user grasps a cylindrically shaped handle generally oriented parallel to a supporting surface, on each device with each of his hands, being mounted in, and supported by a support structure that is generally oriented perpendicular to said supporting surface, said support structure being connected to and supported by a solid base, in said solid base there are three or more spherically shaped balls placed in recesses within said base, a means to retain said spherical balls within their respective recesses in said base being provided, high hertz contact strength bearing surfaces being provided in said recesses located within said base thereby providing a low friction interface of the moving spherically shaped balls and the stationary recesses in said base, and said recesses capturing the upper half of said balls, said spherically shaped balls then permitting a user positioned in the prone position, to slide each of the two identical devices simultaneously while said user is grasping the handles of each devices in each of his hands, across a relatively flat surface, and in any direction simultaneously and independently, thereby allowing said user the capability of exercising said user's muscles and joints in said user's saggital plane, and laterally in said user's frontal plane, and through said user's arm sweep rotation motions about a user's shoulders in the transverse plane, or in any possible combination of these aforesaid motions.