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Anne-Marie Bennstrom’s V-Bar may have evolved into the ThighMaster, yet that wasn’t the only fitness-related product that she invented. In her 1993 interview with the Orlando Sentinel, Bennstrom revealed that she’d recently created another exercise device, which she called the BodyBall — described as a large, round ball imbedded with soft spikes, intended to be rolled around various parts of the anatomy. “Stimulation, blood flow,” she explained while providing a demonstration. “Adjust the spine, massage the lower back, roll it down your legs.”
Unlike her deal with the ThighMaster, for which she had yet to receive a nickel — “My end comes in after the net,” she explained — Bennstrom had come to far better terms for her new invention. “And this time I’m taking 50 cents each right off the top,” she said of the ball, which retailed at $19.95. Because of the success that Suzanne Somers had experienced with the ThighMaster, Somers was the first person Bennstrom approached about her new invention. Somers, however, decided to take a pass. “Said it wasn’t sexy enough for her,” Bennstrom claimed.
Undeterred, Bennstrom enlisted another celebrity: Dennis Weaver, best known for portraying a cowboy cop in the 1970s crime drama “McCloud.” “When he heard we were going to market it, he said he’d love to do it. He says it makes him feel soooo good,” said Bennstrom, revealing the actor’s signature move on the ball was something he’d dubbed the “Weave Wave.”
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