Push Up Board – Foldable Push Up Board for Men and Women, Push Up Handles with 30+ Color Coded Combo Positions for Exercise – At Home Workout Equipment Men, Pushup Board, Original

The quality of the materials is pretty high for the price paid. However, get a $2 pair of cheap leather gardening gloves and wear them when working out with this. The handles are made from rugged plastic and sweat from your work out can interfere with your grip. Far better to wear the gloves using this. The product does exactly what it says. Pushups are probably the number one, most effective muscle building and functional strength exercise there is. They work all the muscles of the front and abdominal core, more effectively than anything else.....making this exercise far more important than anything else you do to train. How you grip, changes the emphasis, although it always works all muscle groups of the anterior chain. Using this board prevent cheating and incorrect muscle recruitment that could lead to joint injury. More importantly, it allows you to work harder parts of the chain that are weaker than the rest. This is desirable from both a physique standpoint and from a functional one (you are only as strong as the weakest muscles in the chain). The device comes with a reasonably knowledgeable workout program and course. However, there are better ways to do cardio and pylometrics. What the course doesn't know is that this device is ideal for doing isometrics. Even if you can't do a single pushups, simply holding the position halfway, will rapidly build up the muscles needed, even in the most weak and feeble. One pushup quickly becomes two. Unlike weight lifting, this way of exercise tends to cause rapid development, especially combined with other functional muscle development. Probably the best, most accessible book on this is Pushing Yourself to Power, by John E. Peterson. With the right knowledge and a handful of simple tools (like this one), you will get far better results than any gym. Another good investment is an adjustable height, simple pull up bar. Often difficult to find, Amazon has a seller for these which are both of quality and take up little space (mine I have straddling my treadmill and I simply lower it a bit when I need to use it). This simple bar is the most effective device for working the posterior chain of your back. Eventually, you will want to do pullups, but again, unless you are a 150 pound waif, pullups are something you have to work up to. Isometrics are the way to go with this. Peterson has a great Youtube clip demonstrating this and also demonstrating what you will look like a year or two after exercising this way. Another good device is a abdominal wheel. Unless you are already ripped, for God's sake, get the expensive one that has a spring that stores force as you roll out and then uses it to aid coming back up. No exercise is more effective (or more demanding) on the abs. These simple tools fit on most people's homes and are effective and cheap.

If you use it more consistently your soft hands will develop into manly meat hooks capable of crushing average mortals. I do anywhere from 150 to 750 push ups daily and when I was in Army I could easily exceed a thousand a day. This is the best device I've ever used for push ups; better than perfect push up in all ways except portability. The key to success is I set my phone to alarm every 15 minutes from 730 to 1030 each evening. When it is time just drop and knock out out as many as possible. DONT COUNT! Push as many as possible. In a month you will be able to do 50 or more perfectly. If you can do 40-50 push-ups you can probably bench your weight at least once which most people cannot do.The sets are phenomenal and the tool is super sturdy and I find grips comfortable - in fact due to wrist issue I can't do normal hands on floor push ups without big pain, zero when I have a grip like these, which is why I bought perfect push-ups years ago. I saw these and figured for under 50$ I would try. I love this and last few months were great. It allows you to do push ups and target muscle groups you never thought a push up set could ( or muscles you didn't know you had lol!).These also of double duty as parallette bars to do some very basic core work as the set is sturdy- the manufacturer should demo that ability- it's a real Easter egg with this tool.If you are starting out do as I suggested- at nights set your phone or a timer to consistently go off every 15 to 20 minutes for at least 6-8 sets. Do as many as possible using good form and if you can't don't be shy to drop to knees, just keep that back straight and try to keep your head up not dangling! If you are sore skip one day only- after a few nights do daily and each time aim to keep perfect form more than number of push ups.Add a body vest and do body weight squats and you will have a home gym that's slips under your couch when you aren't using it and can build serious muscle. With the vest you can really challenge yourself on push ups! It will smoke you like a cheap cigar!