Exercise apparatus includes rotatable horizontal cylinder supporting user
in a wide variety of exercises. Transversely spaced elongated handles
extend from behind and lower than the cylinder upward and forward to
substantially higher than the cylinder. The frame, cylinder, and
elongated handles arranged so that user's body is supported primarily by
the cylinder while user's hands can grasp the elongated handles
sequentially higher and lower positions and can selectively pull and push
translating user's body fore and aft on the cylinder. In exemplary
embodiment, handles are bowed with upper portions positioned
substantially above said cylinder to enable user sitting on said cylinder
to reach upward and grasp handle upper portions, and frame includes
transversely spaced posts, handles include portions extending downward to
engage posts. Other features include lower handle set, vertically
adjustable cylinder and soft surface cylinder and handles.