“I designed the Push-Up Pal to assist one in doing push-ups.  One can do sets of 15-25 push-ups at a time and do 3-5 sets of those and get not only a great toning and strength-building exercise, but also an aerobic work-out at the same time.”


Principals:
 
Richard Fulton M.D.
Dr. Richard “Dick” Fulton is the co-inventor of the Push-Up Pal.  Dick is a physician in Grand Junction, Colorado, which is a mecca for exercise, sports and fitness.  Dick is also an inventor with more than 30 patents issued, co-inventor of the F.A.S.T. device, and is the co-founder of three medical device startup companies, one of which sold to Johnson and Johnson.  He is a fitness enthusiast, avid snowboarder, fisherman, mountain biker and golfer. 
 
Will Dubrul
Will Dubrul is the co-inventor of the Push-Up Pal.  Will holds 40+ patents on medical devices and consumer products.  He is the co-founder of four successful medical device companies. Will has more than 25 years experience in ‘Rapid Product Development’. He has introduced over 100 products in his career and several of those products that have become standards in their industries including saline-filled breast implants, laparoscopic access ports, arthroscopic surgical tools and cardiovascular interventional tools.  Will has received numerous design awards, including the “Excellence in Design” Award in 1995 for the best invention of the year – the Radially Expanding Dilator, RED.  He repeated in 2005 with the F.A.S.T. (Facilitated Aspiration/Suction Thrombectomy) catheter.
 
Andrei M. Manoliu, Ph.D., J.D.
Dr. Manoliu is a consummate entrepreneur and serves as Director of several public and private companies. From 1982 through March 2000, he was an attorney with Cooley Godward LLP, most recently as senior partner. During his tenure at Cooley Godward LLP, Dr. Manoliu served as outside counsel to numerous medical device and high technology companies advising on complex financing and strategic transactions. He received a Ph.D. in solid-state physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif.
 

Passionate Pronouncements from the Inventors

 

            “The push-up is indeed truly the single most efficient and most effective upper body exercise that there is.”


            “There’s no other product on the market…so easy to use [that] provides a complete total upper body work-out like the Push-Up Pal.”

 

            “Women don’t naturally have as much upper body strength as men.  Push-ups are very difficult for most women to do, especially several sets of push-ups.  The Push-Up Pal however makes it significantly easier for women to perform push-ups providing them with an assistance in doing the push-ups.”

 

            “I designed the Push-Up Pal to assist one in doing push-ups.  One can do sets of 15-25 push-ups at a time and do 3-5 sets of those and get not only a great toning and strength-building exercise, but also an aerobic work-out at the same time.”

 

            “The Push-Up Pal truly does provide a complete upper body work-out.  It exercises every major muscle group in the torso, shoulders and arms.  It exercises the trapezious muscle, the latissumus dorsi, the deltoids and rotator cuff muscles, the biceps, the triceps, the pectoralis muscles and the extensors and flexors of the forearm.”

 

            “The Push-Up Pal will create toning and definition for women.  It will tone, condition, strengthen muscles for both sexes.  It will even add muscle in men.”

            “The standard push-up exerts nearly the total body weight on the arms.  This is difficult to overcome for most people.  Most people aren’t strong enough to do push ups, and it puts a tremendous amount of stress on the wrists, elbows and shoulders.  The facilitated resistance training however provided by the Push-Up Pal eliminates most of the stress on the wrists, the elbows and the shoulders and provides a very safe way to perform a complete upper body workout.”