Load-distribution cushion padding for engaging around a bar of a weight-lifting device and for cradling and protecting the cervical spine of a weightlifter by absorbing shock from the bar of the weigh-lifting device while the weight-lifter is doing a squat exercise

Abstract

A load-distribution cushion padding for engaging around a bar of a weight-lifting device and for cradling and protecting the cervical spine of a weight-lifter by absorbing shock from the bar of the weigh-lifting device while the weight-lifter is doing a squat exercise. The padding includes a tube and a ring. The tube engages around the bar of the weight-lifting device. The ring surrounds a portion of the tube and cradles and protects the cervical spine of the weight-lifter by absorbing the shock from the bar of the weigh-lifting device while the weight-lifter is doing a squat exercise. The tube is made of molded thick foam of varying degrees of open and closed foam, thicknesses, and densities. The ring is made of a shock-absorbing low-density foam. The tube has a central portion containing a circumferential groove. The ring fills the circumferential groove in the central portion of the tube, and forms therewith, a shock-absorbing tube. The shock-absorbing tube has an axial slot completely therealong, which receives the bar of the weight-lifting device.

1 . A load-distribution cushion padding for engaging around a bar of a weight-lifting device and for cradling and protecting the cervical spine of a weight-lifter by absorbing shock from the bar of the weigh-lifting device while the weight-lifter is doing a squat exercise, comprising:
 a) a tube; and   b) a ring;   wherein said tube is for engaging around the bar of the weight-lifting device; and   wherein said ring surrounds a portion of said tube for cradling and protecting the cervical spine of the weight-lifter by absorbing the shock from the bar of the weigh-lifting device while the weight-lifter is doing a squat exercise.   
   
   
       2 . The padding of  claim 1 , wherein said tube is made of molded thick foam of varying degrees of open and closed foam, thicknesses, and densities. 
   
   
       3 . The padding of  claim 1 , wherein said ring is made of a shock-absorbing low-density foam. 
   
   
       4 . The padding of  claim 1 , wherein said tube has a central portion; and
 wherein said central portion of said tube contains a circumferential groove.   
   
   
       5 . The padding of  claim 4 , wherein said ring fills said circumferential groove in said central portion of said tube, and forms therewith, a shock-absorbing tube. 
   
   
       6 . The padding of  claim 5 , wherein said shock-absorbing tube has an axial slot;
 wherein said axial slot extends completely along said shock-absorbing tube; and   wherein said axial slot is for receiving the bar of the weight-lifting device.