“The push-up is indeed the single most efficient and most effective upper body exercise that exists.”
"Chest exercises are absolutely the most popular kind of exercise around.When a guy hits the gym, they’re the first thing he wants to do.” Jeffrey Stout, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Exercise Physiology CreightonUniversity
"There are two main ways that I can see how the
Push-Up Pal will help my clients. First of all it reduces the load that they’d be lifting. Secondly, it adds confidence to them that they can do push-ups from their toes.”
John Walker, Certified Fitness Professional President and CEO, Excel Health & Fitness “Wow. That was my very first push-up! I have never been able to do a push-up from my toes. I know I need to do push-ups and with this, I can!”
Jennifer O’Neil “I think this is a great invention.”
Mercy Bobias, American Council on Exercise Certification and Pilates Certification “I have a lot of people [clients] who can do hundreds of push-ups from their knees, this will allow them to move to their toes and get the full benefit of push-ups!”
Laurel J. Neil, US Army Master Fitness Trainer “You need to do push-ups to get rid of these, these batwings.”
Kelly Spring, Timeout BootCamp Instructor “A lot of people who can’t do a proper push-up – what a lot of people call a GI push-up – will modify it and put it down on their knees. The challenge with that or the lack of benefit is that you’re not working your CORE [The core muscles are the large muscle groups of the back, abdomen, hips and pelvis.] as much as you could by doing it from your toes.”
John Walker, Certified Fitness Professional President and CEO, Excel Health & Fitness “This is great! I felt like I was doing a level push-up.”
Liz Falvey, Timeout BootCamp Instructor “The
Push-Up Pal will make it easier to do what clients find difficult which is give assistance to do push-ups. It will help them maintain proper form and alignment, take the stress off any joints they may have injured.”
John Walker, Certified Fitness Professional President and CEO, Excel Health & Fitness
Other Substantiating Claims: The following sources advocate push-ups to be an important part of a total body workout:
- American Council on Exercise (ACE)
- President’s Counsel on Physical Fitness and Sports
- US Air Force
- Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma
- Aetna InteliHealth
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas Adult Exercise Research Program
- Fitnessforhealth.com
- Healthfitnesstips.com
- Allfromnature.com
- MotherNature.com
- Lifetime Network Timeout BootCamp
“Fitness exercises that strengthen the chest muscles include push-ups, flies, crossovers and various versions of the press. Many of these exercises work best when done with weights or weight machines; however, the old-fashioned push-up is still one of the best chest strengthening exercises.”
“Women’s Health: Breast Exercises”, allfromnature.com
“Chest exercises are absolutely the most popular kind of exercise around.When a guy hits the gym, they’re the first thing he wants to do.” Jeffrey Stout, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Exercise Physiology CreightonUniversity
“Although one of the best chest exercises around is the push-up, there’s a real danger that the exercise could give your wrists more of a workout than you intended.” “The Men’s Guide to Peak Conditioning: Chest”, MotherNature.com
