Patent ID: 8206274

Claim:
A dumbbell with an optional number of weight discs comprising a handle with an anchorage disposed at each end, two sets of weight discs standing on edge in a stand with the handle between both sets of weight discs, the handle, with an optional number of weight discs, being liftable out of the stand, connecting means disposed on the anchorages and the weight discs and, in an axial direction of a longitudinal axis of the handle, interconnecting the anchorages with a neighboring weight disc or interconnecting neighboring weight discs, respectively, the connecting means permitting movements transversely of the axial direction, and locking means which, in an activated state in directions transversely of the axial direction prevents mutual movements between the anchorages and neighboring weight discs and between neighboring weight discs, respectively, wherein the locking means comprises locking bodies which are movable so that their directions of movement contain an axial component of movement, and which are insertable in corresponding recesses on a neighboring weight disc or a neighboring anchorage, the locking bodies being operable under the action of operating means which are located inside a peripheral contour of the weight discs and the anchorages.