Abstract: Exercise equipment is provided with a hand gripping assembly having a solid bar or yoke having a longitudinal axis. Extending radially from the longitudinal axis of the solid bar or yoke is a gripping assembly. The structure of the gripping assembly is a connecting bar that has one end of an axis of the connecting bar that engages the solid bar or yoke through a rotating joint, and the connecting bar having a second end on the axis of the connecting bar, the second end rotating along the axis of the connecting bar through the rotating joint.