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Summary: Hits the Biceps, Hits the Chest, Spares Elbows, Nice Pump
Comment: 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
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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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