Like everyone else, I’ve seen the numerous ads for The Perfect Pushup.
Anyone used it? Is it worth the $40.00?
What are your goals?
I haven’t done a pushup since highschool, but everytime I see those on TV, they always look like a great way to break your wrists or elbows.
Are you doing push-ups now? Can you do them on a decline with your legs up on a chair? Or even on a balance ball for even more unstability? There are so many different ways to work a push-up without buying fancy equipment that it seems a bit unnecessary.
That thing is retarded.
All the ads always claim that it was invented by a Navy SEAL.
Well, I happen to know an actual Navy SEAL. And I can tell you he sure as hell didn’t use the “Perfect Pushup” during his SEAL training, nor did our wrestling coach employ that device when we wrestled together in high school.
As far as I’m concerned, there’s only one way to do a pushup and it doesn’t involve any kind of gimmick device.
FWIW, most of the reviews here seem favorable.
I am such a girl. I came in here expecting to read about bras.
I don’t know about Navy SEAL inventions but I do know that regular push up bars work fine. Without a bar of some sort, my wrists give out before my chest/shoulders. They should be ~$10-20 new.
Minor nitpick. Just becuase they were invented by one, shouldn’t imply they they were used by other SEALs.
Yeah of course, that’s kind of my point. The guy who invented it might be a SEAL, but he didn’t get there by using anything like his own invention. If regular old pushups are good enough for the SEALs training, they’re good enough for anyone.
Sure, we can talk about that instead. I’m easy.
I think it works both ways, cause I’m a guy and i came in here expecting to read about bras.
I am not an expert, but:
A year or two back I read in a weight-lifting magazine that one should add dumb-bell bench presses to his routine so that he could perform a similar motion. (They did not say to drop regular bench presses.)
Like anything else, it only works if you use it. If you’re not doing pushups now you’re not going to do them after buying this. If you are doing them now, what results do you want that you aren’t getting? A gym membership would be money better spent if you don’t already have one, or wait until they’re $10 at Play-it-Again Sports.
To answer most of the questions.
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I spend most of my time in the gym doing cardio.
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I added weights, but not sure how good the routine is. Leg extensions, leg curls, bench press, dumbbell curl, upright row, and lat pull down are the exercises I use.
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I’d like to add some upper body strength and definition. I don’t currently do push ups.
This is kind of friend-of-a-friend-ish, but my husband was just saying the other day that his personal trainer keeps seeing people who injured themselves using the perfect pushup. She had no kind words for it.
Me, I just want to figure out my standard pushup form, and then maybe some of the fancy equipment-free types.
Pushups are for bodyweight enthusiasts and people who don’t want a gym membership. You sound like neither. Save your money.
Me, too. I was wondering why a guy (I met **dalej42 ** in Dallas, so I was SURE he was a guy) was asking about bras! :smack: 
They have them at my gym. I don’t really like it - but then, I don’t do pushups unless I have to. (or I’m making myself. they’re like broccoli). But I see people who obviously do a lot of pushups using them, and when I asked one of them about it, he said that he liked it.
I was hoping it was about ice cream.