Rating: - perfect pushup with a pain
I think the designers of this Item need to add some cushion to the hand grips. Most buyers are not Navy Seals.
Rating: - Good solid construction
These things are nice to use and they definitely do add some effort to an ordinary pushup. This is a good tool to use to tone up and keep in shape and the construction is solid. Doesn't feel like you're going to crack these if you drop something on them. I'd buy these again.
Rating: - THEY REALLY DO WORK
After only 2 weeks of workouts, i can already see an increase in size and tone of the muscles it works. Abs, triceps, biceps, back, chest, shoulders. The perfect pushup has also increased my bench press. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Rating: - Hits the Biceps, Hits the Chest, Spares Elbows, Nice Pump
Kinesthetically intuitive - this is a pushup game-changer. I don't know how many thousands of pushups I did in my life (ever since that Soviet Army bootcamp sergent of mine told me to hit the mud and forget my name) but it never dawned on me that something as basic as a push-up could be improved upon. Sure, I've did push-ups on fists, one-arm push-ups, on the backs of parallel chairs (at a wedding, tearing the back of my tuxedo*), with a 45 plate on my back, with a cigarrette in my mouth**, on a walker in a Goodwill store*** - but to rotate the Earth underneath me - that's on the order of a Kopernicus/Galilelo type of engineering insight.
Seriously, this is a great, endurable, attractive, zero-installation (just kidding) piece of exercise equipment. Obviously portable and obviously fun. Spice up your push-ups. Isolate that "trice." Spare yourself elbow pain. Hit that chest. And feel the burn... Let's face it: as we chase more and more interesting exercise equipment, there's something to be said about the return to the basics - the push-ups, the pull-ups, and, for this Russian, the kettle balls ("giri," as we call'em back at home).
Here's a suggestion to the designer, however: the only way, it seems, to make the perfect push-up even better is to design it with some kind of screw-on extension block so that the wrist stations could be lifted up/raised up, say, an inch at a time, for additional depth of the deep, to get a better load on the chest.
But in the absence of this engineering improvement, you can do what my sergent had us do: dig a narrow ditch and let your mug drop down into the ground. Or (and you won't find this in the product instructions although this is a classic pushup fine-tunement) you can turn your head to the side as you drop down to reduce that push-up clearance by a couple of inches (by getting your chin out of the way of your pushup). Remember to alternate
*just kidding
**still kidding
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Pavel Somov, Ph.D.
Author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" (New Harbiner, 2008)
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Rating: - Fun pushups?
I just started exercising again and after two months of using the perfect pushup every other day I notice a difference. The perfect pushup makes doing pushups interesting for me. I focus more on the range of motion and doing pushups properly.
It's a bit expensive compared to free pushups, but I think it was worth it. Quality of build is great. The two parts feel sturdy and will last me a long time. The glide/bearings move smooth and don't make any noise. I'd recommend the perfect pushup.
- perfect pushup with a pain
- THEY REALLY DO WORK