Exercise apparatus for mobility recovery and slimming

An exercising apparatus for allowing mobility recovery and slimming activities during crawling movements of the body, comprising:

• a) an endless sport mat on top of which said activities are performable, said mat comprising an outer layer made of a soft and elastic material, and an inner layer contiguous with said outer layer and made of a rigid, protective material;
• b) a plurality of horizontally spaced rollers about which said inner layer of said endless mat is looped, front and rear driving rollers, and at least three supporting rollers for supporting a selected middle body area of a user in direct contact with said endless mat during performance of crawling movements, said at least three supporting rollers being interposed between said front and rear driving rollers in such a way that adjacent supporting rollers are not in abutting relation with each other, the axis of each of said at least three supporting rollers being essentially horizontally disposed and coplanar;
• c) a rigid frame, for housing, and to which are rotatably mounted, said plurality of rollers;
• and
• d) a plurality of stands connected to said frame for stabilizing said apparatus on top of a suitable surface;
• wherein said apparatus is manually driven,
• wherein said mat outer and inner layers have a sufficient combined degree of flexibility in the vertical direction so that one or more of said at least three supporting rollers is felt by said selected middle body area of the user during performance of said crawling movements,
• wherein each of said supporting rollers is sufficiently spaced from an adjacent supporting roller such that said endless mat is depressible under the weight of the user during said crawling movements thereon between said front and rear driving rollers, causing said plurality of supporting rollers to be rotated and said endless mat to be manually driven, whereby said exercising apparatus massages said selected body area of the user by means of said plurality of supporting rollers in response to a magnitude and direction of forces applied to said plurality of supporting rollers during performance of said crawling movements.