Exercise machine for limb extremity digits

A digits' exerciser device including, in combination:

• a fixed, limb extremity platform having an upper surface;
• a movable digits' support member having an upper surface essentially disposed, when at a medial-point operative position, in the same plane of said platform upper surface;
• transversely disposed pivot means pivotally mounting said support member proximate said platform for lateral pivotal movement of said digits' support member, relative to said platform in accordance with digits' pressure thereon;
• and means for resisting said digits' pressure coupled to said digits' support member, and wherein said resisting means comprises a flexible elongate connector laterally coupled at one end to said digits' support member, a fixed pulley supporting said flexible elongate connector intermediate its ends, and weight means coupled to said flexible elongate connector at its remaining end for resisting said digits' support member toward the latter's original position.

A foot-digits exerciser machine including, in combination:

• platform means having an ankle strap;
• digits' support means nominally disposed essentially in the same plane as said platform means and also constructed for up-and-down movement normal to the plane of said platform means;
• a riser provided with hand-support means and a vertical cable-support pulley;
• cable means having one end fixed to said digits' support means and a remaining end looped over said pulley;
• and weight means coupled to said remaining end of said cable means.

In a weight-lift machine having an upstanding framework:

• an improvement comprising side-by-side disposed foot platforms displaced proximate to but exterior of said framework, each of said platforms being provided with digits' supports essentially and nominally coplanar with said platforms, respectively, and pivoted relative thereto at horizontal axes and at respective angles of from 73.degree.-77.degree., canted rearwardly-outwardly, relative to the longitudinal orientation of said platforms;
• vertical pulley means supported by and journalled to said framework;
• weight means;
• cable means having opposite ends, one of said ends being provided with a yoke extension, said yoke extension being coupled to each of said digits' supports proximate outer margins thereof, the remaining end of said cable means being coupled to said weight means.