IDAHO FALLS — It started with a problem. Ethan and Kinsee Abbott were poor newlywed college students, and Ethan wanted a place to work out.
They couldn’t afford a gym membership, and there was little space in their small apartment for exercise equipment.
So Ethan, a Rigby High School and BYU graduate, decided to make his own.
“I’d go to Home Depot and buy scraps of wood and pieces of copper pipe,” he tells EastIdahoNews.com. “At nighttime, I would try to put different prototypes together. There was sawdust all over the carpet and glue on the table, but I finally got to the point where I felt it would work.”
Ethan created fitness handles that gave users a complete upper body workout. They were compact, lightweight, easy to travel with and could fit in a drawer.
He hired some Brigham Young University engineering students to perfect the invention, and CrossGrips by Jayflex was born.
“They are multi-gym fitness handles. You can use them for a bunch of different exercises — pull-ups, sit-ups and push-ups. Plus, you can attach bands to them and use them that way,” Ethan says.
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