A physical exercise system uses conventional downhill or cross-country skis and poles in a skiing exercise system. An ski holder (elevated structure) is attached to the end of each of the pair of skis and a plug is attached to each of the pair of ski poles. The exercise may be performed in the living room environment on a residential carpet. When the skis are moved from a generally horizontal exercising position to a vertical position, for storage or display, the flat base of the ski holder provides for stable upward display and storage of the skis. An exercise method is disclosed which may provide the skier five aerobic points a day in a single twelve-minute exercise period.

Apparatus for training skiers the apparatus including a frame mounting a pair of resilient cords which interconnect the frame and the tails of the individual skis for supporting the tails of skis in elevated relation, and pivot assemblies mounted on the tips of the skis and rested on a supporting surface and operable to allow a skier wearing the skis to swing the skis and pivot the skis about their respective longitudinal axes for purposes of simulating various ski maneuvers.

A multipurpose body exerciser includes an I-shaped bottom block mated with a vertical main frame and a support frame for mounting of a seat and a back cushion on the main frame. The exerciser further includes two elongated foot-pedals disposed at both sides of the vertical main frame, each respectively suspended by a steel cord hung on a pulley block to provide the foot-pedals for training of the legs. Two vertical rocker rods are provided on opposing sides of the vertical main frame for training of the arms. The foot-pedals and the rocker rods are adjustable by associated hydraulic cylinders, to provide a predetermined tension for providing the best performance appropriate to a user's condition. The whole structure may be divided into three independent portions for convenient transportation or packaging to minimize space requirements.

An in situ foot exercise shoe for enhancing the in-place exercise of the foot of a person, particularly the elderly and those afflicted with various abnormalities of the lower extremities which require exercise without actual walking or running. The apparatus constructed according to the present invention comprises a shoe which enhances sliding movement in a to-and-fro path of travel. The shoe includes a planar slide for sliding in a to-and-fro reciprocal path of travel and mechanism for coupling the slide to the underside of the foot. The slide includes a sole having a smooth uninterrupted planar bottom surface for enhancing to-and-fro sliding movement.

A downhill skiing/snowboarding/water skiing simulator and exerciser is disclosed, having an adjustable declined platform on which two simulated skis move, supported on rear wheeled trucks, sideways against tension type resistance riding back and forth its curved back track. Simultaneously with the rear movement, the ski tips or simulated snowboard pivot around the reduced lateral travel of the stacked swiveling, lateral moving front ski tip assembly, while the skis move between wedge and parallel positions freely. Independent height adjustments on either side of the back track allow changes from traversing directional simulations prior to the start of an actual stop movement. Outward angled standing bars provide pulling forces for the feel of the centrifugal force of a snow ski turn or water ski/snowboard turn. The forward end of each ski is capable of lateral and longitudinal movement.