Exercise bar with head-accepting gap
OwnerLarry Vittone, Suzanne Vittone +1inventors
InventorsLarry Vittone, Suzanne Vittone, William Vittone
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Abstract
An exercise bar including an elongated frame having two spaced hand grips with which the bar is grasped by the user during an exercise routine and a U-shaped mid-section which joins the hand grips to one another. Each hand grip accommodates a change in position of the wrists of the grasping hands relative to the frame as the bar is moved with the hands during an exercise routine. Furthermore, the opening of the U of the U-shaped mid-section provides a gap disposed between the hand grips which is sized to accommodate the passage of the mid-section over the head of the user without the need to lift the grips of the bar any higher than the user's head.
Claims19
An exercise bar for use during an exercise routine, the exercise bar comprising:
- an elongated frame having two opposite ends;
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- two hand grips with which the bar is grasped by the user during an exercise routine performed with the bar and wherein each hand grip is associated with a corresponding end of the bar so that the two grips are spaced from one another and wherein the hand grips permit the user's hands grasped thereabout to be arranged so that the palms of the grasping hands face one another;
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- wherein the frame includes a mid-section which joins the opposite ends of the bar to one another and which provides a gap disposed between the hand grips which is sized to accommodate the passage of the mid-section over the head of the user without the need to lift the grips of the bar any higher than the user's head.
An exercise bar comprising:
- an elongated frame having two opposite ends and a U-shaped section disposed between the opposite ends;
- a pair of hand grips being disposed along the length of the frame so that the opening of the U of the U-shaped section is disposed between the hand grips, each hand grip being pivotally attached to the frame to accommodate a change in position of the wrists of the grasping hands relative to the frame as the bar is moved with the hands during an exercise routine;
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- the opening of the U of the U-shaped section is sized to permit the passage of the head of the user therethrough as the user holds the bar adjacent his shoulders by the hand grips and subsequently rotates the bar with his wrists between a first position at which a major portion of the bar mid-section is disposed forwardly of the user's head and a second position at which a major portion of the bar mid-section is disposed rearwardly of the user's head.
An exercise bar which is held by the hands of the user during the performance of an exercise routine, the exercise bar comprising:
- an elongated frame;
- a pair of ring members which are pivotally mounted within the frame at spaced locations therealong to accommodate the pivotal movement of each ring member about a corresponding pivot axis relative to the frame;
- a pair of elongated grips wherein each grip extends across and is fixedly secured to a corresponding ring member, and each grip is oriented along a grip axis which is substantially perpendicular to the pivot axis of the corresponding ring member so that as the user grasps the elongated grips and moves the exercise bar during an exercise routine, each ring member is permitted to pivot about its corresponding pivot axis;
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- the elongated frame includes a U-shaped section having a U which is disposed between the pair of ring members and wherein the U of the U-shaped section provides a gap which accommodates the passage of the U-shaped section over the head of the user without the need to lift the grips of the bar any higher than the user's head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.