Patent ID: 7837598

Claim:
An exercise bar comprising: a pair of separate handles including a left handle and a right handle having proximal ends with at least one fulcrum hole extending through the proximal end of each thereof and a lock hole therethrough spaced away from the fulcrum hole; a center plate having a center, a to end in the center with a coupling therein, a left side, a right side, a periphery, and a pair of pivot holes extending through the center plate with one of the pivot holes on the left side and one of the pivot holes on the right side of both the coupling and the center plate; one of a pair of pivot pins inserted through each fulcrum hole and one of the pivot holes with each of said pivot pins pivotally securing one of said left handle and said right handle to said center plate on said left and right sides thereof respectively; openings comprising holes, detents or notches formed extending through the center plate spaced about the periphery thereof on the left and the right sides of both the coupling and the center plate; and movable locking pins for insertion through said lock holes through said left handle and through said right handle and into selected ones of the openings for retaining the left handle and the right handle at respective, separate selected angular positions on the left and right sides of both the coupling and the center plate; whereby the angles of said left handle and said right handle with respect to said center and to each other are adjustable for different exercises with said exercise bar.