Is The Per­fect Pushup For Real?

Can Infomer­cials Sell More Than Just Promises?

If you’re like me, you’re a sucker for infomer­cials. Lazy Sun­day morn­ings eat­ing break­fast and flip­ping through the numer­ous infomer­cials that are on. One that caught my atten­tion, besides the Magic Bul­let and the 3 sec­ond omelet, was The Per­fect Pushup. There were a few rea­sons for that.

I love to see and research the lat­est fit­ness fads. Actu­ally, cri­tique might be a bet­ter term. It seems that just about any fad can have an infomer­cial devel­oped around it. But, when it comes to fit­ness fads, I really like to see if they can be for real or not. While many of these types of infomer­cials don’t really amount to much, there are a few that are seri­ous prod­ucts. Take Bowflex as an exam­ple. This is a com­pany that puts a great amount of research in the mechan­ics of their home gyms and con­tin­u­ously update them with new tech­nol­ogy to give you the abil­ity to have a great work­out. And they have had an infomer­cial for as long as I can remember.

And sec­ondly, I’m always look­ing for some­thing new to add to my work­out rou­tine. Doing the same rou­tine over and over can quickly get stale. With some­thing new, you actu­ally get excited to work­out and use it. And it seems that doing the same exer­cises pre­dictably allows your body to adapt so after a while, you hit a plateau as far as gains go.

Push Ups That Don’t Hurt

I’ve always had a love/hate rela­tion­ship with doing push ups. It’s a great exer­cise that uses your own body weight as resis­tance. How­ever, the pres­sure put on my wrists is a killer. I wasn’t able to do push ups on a very reg­u­lar basis because my wrists would hurt too much. This was ter­ri­ble because the pushup is not just a great stand alone exer­cise, but is also great in con­junc­tion with other chest exer­cises, like the bench press.

I kept talk­ing about it, and for Christ­mas I got it as a gift from my sis­ter and brother-in-law. The Per­fect Pushup seemed to have such a sim­ple design, but yet at the same time put a new twist on an old exer­cise, lit­er­ally. For those who haven’t see it, click here to see what the Per­fect Pushup looks like.

Essen­tially, It is a han­dle that sits atop a cir­cu­lar disk that rotates 360 degrees. The pack­age comes with two, one for each hand. You place the two han­dles oppo­site each other, and you can vary the dis­tance for vari­a­tions of the exer­cise. As you do the up and down motion of the exer­cise, you are also rotat­ing the han­dle to work­out your arms in addi­tion to your chest and back.

For an “As Seen on TV” prod­uct I was pleas­antly sur­prised by the build qual­ity. These are very sturdy devices. The han­dles are mag­nif­i­cent. Doing pushups hold­ing the han­dles takes away the pres­sure from my wrists. My wrists are no longer sore after doing the rou­tine. The twist­ing motion is very smooth and is some­thing I got used to very quickly. They are nice and small and can be stored eas­ily under a bed or in a closet.

Because of the com­fort, I am able to do push ups more fre­quently and do more reps per set. I am get­ting awe­some results in my arms, chest, shoul­ders, and back. These results can be seen and felt.

Included in the pack­age are instruc­tions show­ing dif­fer­ent vari­a­tions you can do with The Per­fect Pushup, this way the pushup rou­tine doesn’t become stale. It also maps these vari­a­tions out in what they call the “Get Ripped Plan.” It is a rou­tine that max­i­mizes your time and the exer­cise vari­a­tions to get the best results. After two and a half months of being part of my reg­u­lar work­out, I can say that I am very happy with the results that I can feel and see as a result of the Per­fect Pushup. If you are look­ing for some­thing to mix up your fit­ness rou­tine or a bet­ter way to do a great exer­cise, The Per­fect Pushup is def­i­nitely some­thing I would rec­om­mend using.

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