Exercise apparatus for bench press and butterfly exercises

Exercise apparatus which enables a user to selectively perform a bench press exercise or a butterfly exercise, the apparatus comprising:

• a support frame having a base and an overhead member;
• a weight stack arranged for vertical reciprocatory movement relative to said base;
• a pair of exercise arms each being generally L-shaped and each having a hand grip at one end;
• a pivot bar having a first end, a second end and a longitudinal axis extending from said first end to said second end;
• means for mounting said pair of exercise arms at their ends opposite their hand grip ends to said pivot bar first end for pivoting movement each about a respective one of a pair of parallel pivot axes, said mounting means being effective to orient said exercise arms each with the hand grip end below the opposite end and each in a respective plane substantially coplanar with the respective pivot axis;
• means for interconnecting said pair of exercise arms for concurrent pivoting movement in opposite angular directions about said pair of pivot axes;
• means for mounting said pivot bar at said pivot bar second end to said overhead member for pivoting movement about a horizontal pivot axis orthogonal to said pivot bar longitudinal axis;
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• means for coupling said pair of exercise arms to said weight stack to provide resistance to pivoting movement of said exercise arms each in a respective first angular direction about the respective one of said pair of pivot axes and to pivoting movement of said pivot bar in a respective first angular direction about said horizontal pivot axis.