Fuente: WIPO "rice" An exercise apparatus which can be variously grasped while different torsion or other muscular movements are performed; the apparatus including a long hollow cylindrical bar having an enlarged circular handhold at each end, each handhold having an annular groove for receiving the fingers, a pair of spaced apart, short legs extending perpendicular to the bar, each outer end of the legs having a large circular foot which can alternately serve as handholds and a center of the bar having openings on opposite sides for the thumb and fingers of a user to permit squeezing of a sponge positioned in the center of the hollow bar.