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The device relates to physical exercise apparatus providing variable resistance to the user has a weight stack movable along a vertical guide and a carriage movable along another guide, the guides being disposed at a predetermined angle to each other and the carriage and the weight stack being conne

The device relates to physical exercise apparatus providing variable resistance to the user has a weight stack movable along a vertical guide and a carriage movable along another guide, the guides being disposed at a predetermined angle to each other and the carriage and the weight stack being connected to each other through a rigid link. The carriage is movable by the user against a variable force dependent on the position of the weight stack in its guide, the angle between the guides and the weight of the stack.

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Weight training apparatus comprising: a vertical guide; a weight stack engaged with and reciprocally movable along said vertical guide; a second guide inclined at a predetermined angle to said vertical guide; said second guide extending upwardly in a direction inclined away from said vertical guide;

Weight training apparatus comprising: a vertical guide; a weight stack engaged with and reciprocally movable along said vertical guide; a second guide inclined at a predetermined angle to said vertical guide; said second guide extending upwardly in a direction inclined away from said vertical guide; a carriage reciprocally movable along said second guide; means for moving said carriage along said second guide; and a rigid link means pivotally connected to said weight stack and to said carriage so that movement of the carriage along said second guide will cause said weight stack to be lifted; said rigid link extending upwardly in a direction inclined away from said vertical guide.