its use which is adapted to exercise abdominal muscles both along the plane of the centerline of the user 39 s body and to the left and right of such centerline such range of motion will facilitate the exercise of all the major abdominal muscle groups as well as other muscle groups it will also be appreciated that the present invention provides an exercise device where the user may easily grip it a number of ways with both hands in a mutually supporting manner it will also be appreciated that the present invention is adapted to allow the user to participate in a number of different types of exercises to provide a full range of abdominal muscle exercises as well as to providing a variety in the exercise routine it will also be appreciated that the present invention is an abdominal exercise device which may be easily and inexpensively manufactured it will also be appreciated that this exercise device may be easily be used at home and it is compact and adapted to storage in a space efficient manner when not in use it will also be appreciated that the device described above is sufficiently compact so that it may be readily carried by the user to allow exercising while traveling accordingly the improved abdominal exercise device is simplified provides an effective safe inexpensive and efficient device which achieves all the enumerated objectives provides for eliminating difficulties encountered with prior devices and solves problems and obtains new results in the art in the foregoing description certain terms have.