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post #1 of 58
3/16/08 at 4:41pm
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Anyone have experience with this? The online reviews are suspiciously cheery. Is it any more effective than what you can do with a weight bench and barbells? (I have a small gym in my apt complex)


http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...Id=24738186713

http://www.perfectpushup.com/
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post #2 of 58
3/16/08 at 4:45pm
It's unnecessary equipment. Just remember that they guy on the box and on the video didn't get in shape from using it.
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post #3 of 58
3/16/08 at 4:59pm
It's just a gimmick. You can't increase the load like a bench press, and it's not significantly different than a pushup. If for some reason you feel you must absolutely use that wrist twisting motion, either do DB bench press, or put socks on your hands/ place your hands on towels on a wood floor. Don't give them your money.
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post #4 of 58
3/16/08 at 5:05pm
fuck those things, and do plyo-pushups if you're going to use pushups as a core of your workout.
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post #5 of 58
3/16/08 at 5:25pm
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Originally Posted by Philosoph View Post
If for some reason you feel you must absolutely use that wrist twisting motion, either do DB bench press, or put socks on your hands/ place your hands on towels on a wood floor. Don't give them your money.

Or clapping push ups.
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post #6 of 58
3/16/08 at 11:42pm
It's not bad. All it does is give you a little elevation so you go deeper similar to push-up bars and then lets you add the twist to target more muscles. But, $40+tax and/or shipping is ripoff. Doing push ups on dumbbells will give you the same effect if you place the dumbbells vertically and horizontally to yourself. For $40 you can get a medicine ball/basketball and a pair of dumbbells. There are so many push up variations I don't see why you would need this. Wide, shoulder width, and diamond push ups. Elevated push ups with dumbbells or with a hand or two on a basketball/medicine ball or even textbooks. Incline/Decline push ups. Push ups with a leg elevated. Clap push ups. Push ups on chairs. One handed push ups. Handstand push ups.
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post #7 of 58
3/17/08 at 12:24am
Am I the only one that saw the thread title and thought, "wonderbra"?
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post #8 of 58
3/17/08 at 12:27pm
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Originally Posted by bbaquiran View Post
Am I the only one that saw the thread title and thought, "wonderbra"?

I thought the same thing.
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post #9 of 58
3/17/08 at 2:24pm
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Originally Posted by bbaquiran View Post
Am I the only one that saw the thread title and thought, "wonderbra"?

Well, it also lifts and supports

Jon.
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post #10 of 58
4/1/08 at 2:47pm
I bought a set of these at one of those "As Seen On TV" stores for $19.95. I wouldn't say that they offer anything different than regular pushups except for the above mentioned but it is convenient to have around the house. I don't know why but they kinda motivate me to drop down and knock out about 80 pushups if I don't have time to make it to my gym. Perhaps it's just seeing them that reminds me that I can still get in a quick upper body workout without too much effort. I guess if you have this mentality without having to see something physical to rmind you of this, purchasing them would be pointless.

I've gotten my moneys worth out of them.
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post #11 of 58
4/1/08 at 3:11pm
I got some pushup handles a few weeks ago from Walmart for 6 or 7 bucks. They work very well and enable me to do far more pushups than I ever have been able to do before thanks to keeping my wrists from being sore. Just my experience, FWIW. Never used the "perfect pushup" but it seems gimmicky and probably no better than the cheap Atlas brand handles I have.
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post #12 of 58
4/1/08 at 6:17pm
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I bought it for a friend as a gift. Tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted..... It's harder than a normal pushup, and it's hard on my shoulders (one is bad from tennis) but my friend seems to like it. For $40 not a total ripoff, at least it's easy to hide.
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post #13 of 58
4/2/08 at 10:53am
Well it could be $140, and as long as he's happy with it, it's money well spent. I'm trying to figure out what the point of the twisting motion is, and why its better than just using handles.
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post #14 of 58
4/2/08 at 11:38am
The twisting motion helps you to activate your lats as stabilizer muscles. It also probably helps to shift some of the loading from the anterior deltoid to the medial deltoid in the "up" phase. As mentioned before, its true value for chest development is it allows you to go deeper where more of the load is on the chest rather than the shoulders or triceps.

So while it does noticeably change the push up motion, it still sucks compared to dumbell bench press or other free-weight exercises for chest development. Just get to a gym. And if you're too lazy to do that, don't waste your money on these because they will ultimately take up shoe space in the back of your closet.
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post #15 of 58
4/2/08 at 11:58am
I have the perfect push up device included with my apartment. It's called a "floor."
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