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An exercise vest used to facilitate strengthening and toning of the user's upper arm, lower arm, and shoulder muscles. At least one hand grip is positioned on the back portion of the vest. The hand grips include shoulder grips and side grips. An elastic band extends between one of the shoulder grips

An exercise vest used to facilitate strengthening and toning of the user's upper arm, lower arm, and shoulder muscles. At least one hand grip is positioned on the back portion of the vest. The hand grips include shoulder grips and side grips. An elastic band extends between one of the shoulder grips and one of the side grips, along the vest back portion. The elastic band provides the tension necessary for exercising the user's arm muscles. A ring encircles the elastic band at a point below the hand grips to maintain the hand grips in their resting positions on the vest. A sleeve extends between the shoulder grip and side grip, covering the elastic band. In use, the user grips one set of the hand grips and pulls said grips forward and away from his or her body. The stretching of the elastic band serves to exercise the muscles.

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1. An exercise vest used to strengthen and tone a user's upper and lower arm areas, the vest worn around the torso, comprising: the vest having a front portion, a back portion, a pair of shoulder portions, a pair of arm openings, and a front opening, wherein the front portion rests against the us

1. An exercise vest used to strengthen and tone a user's upper and lower arm areas, the vest worn around the torso, comprising: the vest having a front portion, a back portion, a pair of shoulder portions, a pair of arm openings, and a front opening, wherein the front portion rests against the user's chest, the back portion rests against the user's back, the shoulder portions rest over the user's shoulders, and the arm opening sized to accommodate the user's arms; a plurality of hand grips, the hand grips positioned on the back portion of the vest, said hand grips including a pair of shoulder grips and a pair of side grips, the shoulder grips situated on each of the vest shoulder portions and the side grips situated under each of the vest arm openings; a pair of elastic bands, each elastic band extending along the back portion of the vest vertically between one of the shoulder grips and one of the side grips, said band providing tension when the hand grips is pulled; and four rings, each ring encircling the elastic band inward of each hand grip when the hand grips are in a resting position, said rings rigidly attached to the vest, wherein each ring maintains one of the hand grips attached to its associated elastic band in position so that the elastic band can be tensioned when the other hand grip attached to that elastic band is pulled by the user. 2. The exercise vest as recited in claim 1, further comprising a sleeve, the sleeve extending on the rear of the vest between the shoulder grip and the side grip, said sleeve covering the elastic band extending therebetween. 3. The exercise vest as recited in claim 2, wherein the sleeve has a stitched end and a free end, the free end having fastener material extending adjacent thereto, the rear of the vest also having fastener material, selectively allowing the elastic band to be removed from the sleeve and selectively concealed by the sleeve. 4. The exercise vest as recited in claim 3, wherein the rings have a split which allow the rings to be selectively opened to allow the elastic band to be removed. 5. The exercise vest as recited in claim 4, wherein the front opening has two vertical edges, wherein the front opening is closed when the edges are brought together. 6. The exercise vest as recited in claim 5, wherein the front opening further comprises at least one female coupling positioned adjacent to one of the front opening vertical edges and at least one corresponding male extension positioned on the opposite vertical edge, wherein the male extension is selectively mateable with the female coupling in order to hold the front opening of the vest closed. 7. A method of exercising a user's upper arm, lower arm and shoulder muscles using an exercise vest, the vest having a pair of arm openings, a back portion, a plurality of hand grips, the hand grips positioned on the the back portion of the vest, said hand grips including a pair of shoulder grips and a pair of side grips, the shoulder grips situated on each of the vest shoulder portions and the side grips situated under each of the vest arm openings and a front portion, said front portion having a front opening, at least one male extension and at least one corresponding female coupling, comprising the steps of: a) placing the vest over the user's torso by inserting the user's arms through the arm openings; b) closing the front opening of the vest by mating the male extension with the corresponding female coupling; c) gripping one of the pair of shoulders grips and the pair of side grips by extending the user's hands toward the back portion of the vest; d) tensioning a pair of elastic bands by pulling said hand grips forward and away from the user's torso; e) repeating steps (c) and (d) to maximize exercising results.