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The Perfect Fitness Perfect Push-Up are probably the most widely known brand of rotating push-up handles.
Invented by a US Navy SEAL to optimize the traditional push-up and designed to support users up to 400 lbs, the Perfect Fitness Perfect Push-Up recruits more muscle fibers while reducing the strain on your hands and wrists. Its patented design features a ball bearing system that allows for a smooth and full rotation for natural alignment of your arms and wrists.
You can use these rotating push-up handles in a variety of ways:
1. Rotate Outwards
This move gives you more of a chest and triceps workout.
- Start with your hands in a hammer position and go down towards the floor into a push-up
- As you come up, rotate outwards with your hands into a horizontal grip until you are at the top of your push-up
- Rotate your hands back inwards as you come down into another push-up
2. Rotate Inwards
This move engages more of the chest, triceps, and shoulders (not recommended if you have a shoulder injury).
- Start with your hands in a hammer position and go down towards the floor into a push-up
- As you come up, rotate inwards with your hands into a horizontal grip until you are at the top of your push-up
- Rotate your hands back outwards as you come down into another push-up
3. Rotational Push-Ups
Because the push-up handles feature an anti-slip surface, you also have the option to do more dynamic push-ups such as rotational push-ups to work more of your shoulders and obliques as well as improve your balance.
- First, do a regular push-up
- When you come up to the top of your push-up, carefully raise one of your arms straight up into the air while rotating your body into a side plank position so that your body forms a T shape (keep your arm close to your body while you are raising it)
- Lower your arm down (again, keep it close to your body as you do this move) while rotating your body until you are in the starting push-up / plank position again and repeat with the other side
4. Rotational Tricep Dips
You can also add extra emphasis on your tris and use these rotational push-up handles to do bench dips.
Check out a demonstration of these exercises below.
If you are looking for further fitness instruction, the Perfect V2 Push-Up Handles also come with a U.S. Navy SEAL-inspired 21-day workout chart along with more ways to modify your push-ups using the rotational handles.
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