Chin up bar assembly with sliding and swiveling handles

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The chin up bar assembly of the present invention includes a cross bar and a pair of handles slidably mounted on the cross bar.
The handles are pivotally mounted to the cross bar so as to be movable between locked and unlocked positions.
In the unlocked position, the handles are slidable along the cross bar, and in the locked position the handles are prevented from sliding along the cross bar.
The handles are held in a selected position along the cross bar by a user's weight.
The handles are independently slidable along the cross bar.
The handles include handgrips which swivel about a substantially vertical axis.
The present invention is also directed towards a method of setting a pair of chin up handles at a selected position along a cross bar.
The method includes the initial step of sliding each handle to a selected position along the bar, then moving each handle to a locked position using only the weight of the user so as to preclude sliding of the handles along the cross bar.
The movement to the locked position is achieved by gripping a handgrip of each handle such that the weight of the user pivots a portion of the handle into frictional engagement with the cross bar.
When the user is not hanging from the handles, the handles can be pivoted to an unlocked position disengaged from the cross bar to allow sliding movement of the handles along the cross bar.