Patent ID: 6988978
Filing Date: 2006-01-24
Classification: A63B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A lifting bar and stretchable cord assembly comprising an exercise bar assembly; and an elastic exercise cord assembly; the exercise bar assembly comprising an elongated body; an opposing pair of transversely disposed cord tunnels, one end of each thereof comprising a first opening of size accommodating the disposition of a stretchable exercise cord therethrough, the tunnel comprising size accommodating the cord's impingement therein; the elastic exercise cord assembly comprising a stretchable exercise cord disposed for impingement within a respective cord tunnel and comprising means of impingement for connection to the exercise bar's body; the exercise bar's body comprising a pair of cord emplacement slots disposed, respectively, for communicable access with each tunnel; the tunnel end disposed opposite that comprising the first tunnel opening comprising a second tunnel opening comprising size accommodating the emplacement of a handgrip's connection block; each cord tunnel further comprising two or more shared cavity emplacement wells one of them a handgrip emplacement well comprising size permitting the emplacement of a handgrip connection block, another of them a cord impingement well comprising size permitting impingement of the cord disposed therein; whereby by reason of the tunnels' configuration and the cord's impingement means, to benefit certain muscles, an operator may undertake any one of a number of second mode exercises against the cord's elastic resistance; by reason of the cord emplacement slots, the cord's emplacement witin the bar for impingement in preparation for use in either first or second mode is facilitated; and by reason of the sizes of the second tunnel openings for handgrip connection block emplacement, an operator may immediately shift from independent handgrip assembly exercises to second mode exercise bar use against the same elastic resistance without disconnecting the exercise cord from the handgrips.