Patent ID: 7128667
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. An adjustable weight training belt for use with a baseball bat, the belt comprising: a first layer of flexible material having a front face, a back face, and a hook and loop fastening system, the hook portion of the fastening system on the front face and the loop portion of the fastening system on the back face, the fastening system being adjustable to increase or decrease the area encircled by the belt; a second layer of flexible material having a front face and a back face, the second layer connected to the first layer forming a plurality of pockets between the front face of the first layer and the back face of the second layer, the front face of the second layer having a rubberized surface to resist movement of the belt when placed about a baseball bat, the baseball bat having a circular transverse bat cross-section; and at a hand-moldable, solid, cubic material received in each pocket, the cubic material having mass and a rectangular transverse material configuration, the rectangular transverse material configuration having a bat-opposing arcable first side, the arcable first side being moldable to the circular transverse bat cross-section at a select bat surface position, the moldable arcable first side thus forming a unique surface position mold, the surface position mold being contour-retentive, the contour-retentive surface position mold retaining its contour during swinging bat usage thereby resisting mold movement, the contour-retentive surface position mold enabling belt-replacement at the select bat surface position with intermittent bat usage.