Patent ID: 6572515
Filing Date: 2003-06-03
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
A stabilizer-isolator device for weight training equipment, the stabilizer-isolator device comprising:a pair of brace bars having corresponding first and second ends, the brace bars mounted at the first ends thereof to a weightlifting bar; a collar interconnecting the second ends of the brace bars, the collar being disposed in a plane substantially transverse to the brace bars and defining an opening therein; and at least one isolator bar substantially transverse to the brace bars and interconnecting the brace bars so as to be spaced apart from the first and second ends of the brace bars, the at least one isolator bar comprising a single member with a flat surface or at least two parallel members spaced apart from each other; wherein the weightlifting bar comprises two oppositely-disposed end sections that are substantially coaxial with each other, a midsection therebetween that is substantially parallel to the end sections but not coaxial with the end sections so that the midsection is axially offset from the end sections in a first direction, a first grip between the midsection and a first of the end sections, a second grip between the midsection and a second of the end sections, and interconnecting sections between the first end section and the first grip, the first grip and the midsection, the midsection and the second grip, and the second grip and the second end section, the interconnecting sections being nonparallel to the end sections and the midsection, the first ends of the brace bars of the stabilizer-isolator device attached to the interconnecting sections adjacent the first grip, the first and second grips being substantially parallel to the end sections and the midsection but not coaxial with the end sections and the midsection so that the first and second grips are axially offset between the end sections and the midsection.