Pushup Handles?

cunnins4

Anyone use them? I've a pair at home like these:


I find pushups are a lot harder with them, but I hurt my shoulder earlier doing a few on them. I was going a bit faster than usual, so I think it was that that hurt me, not so much the use of the bars.

Anyone got an opinion on them? Good/bad/no difference?

Frankieboy

I used these for a while months ago. I found they are better for getting lower, but when I tried to do normal push-ups there was huge strain on my wrists.
I prefer to do without, but they probably are better to use.

TerrorFirmer

People always say that, but I actually found them way easier with the bars? Any professional opinions?

rubadub

I like them. They give an incline for beginners, it allows you to go really deep too, so your chest can go lower than your hands, impossible on the ground without some aid. So it is sort of like bench pressing and having the bar pass through your chest. Maybe people just go lower and that is why it seems harder.

I like the fact you can get some grip strength too. I read a book on training saying how gripping and tensioning your abs & butt can help give you more power, and I find this with them- if I grip hard on them I feel stronger. I do decline pushups on a stairs and step ladder- i.e. feet up high on the ladder, with the stands it is easy to move them around the floor, and your hand is not forced to lie flat on the ground which could be a limiting factor.

I am working up to doing handstand pushups. I am practising my handstands first against a wall. Again they will allow you to go further down than with hands alone.

If you stick them between to solid objects, like tables, chairs, pillars, you can do dips on them.

If you like the stands you would love gymnastics rings, far more stuff possible with them, and he is selling off old stock for $50, dirt cheap with the weak dollar, get them while stock is left!

http://ringtraining.com/store/classicrings.html

cunnins4

shoulder's in bits today, so i guess i won't be doing my pushups for a while!

I find the grip makes me tense my whole arm a bit tighter and just makes the whole exercise harder. Also going deeper too. I must start putting my feet up to level with my hands-i forgot about that.

I used to do pushups with my feet up on a chair, but I hurt my shoulder doing that too! That shoulder's always given me bother. I should really warm up a bit better!

LookingFor

Doesn't lowering yourself below shoulder level increase injury risk?

I do use these, though, and I don't often check to ensure I'm not going below shoulder level..but I do them very slowly. Take a few seconds to go down, it makes for a more difficult workout. I tend to do as many of these as I can, then flip over and do some flys with dumbbells. Repeat that 5 times with little or no rest in between sets. Only takes 15 mins or so, and my chest and arms ache for a day or two after

TerrorFirmer

I use them for close push ups - much harder. No idea what the technical name is....but when your hands are both in the middle of your chest.

Transform

Close grip is much safer for shoulders. Keep hands about 7-12inches apart and elbows should brush close to the hips/ribs as you lower chest to the floor.

TKD SC

Transform wrote: »

Close grip is much safer for shoulders. Keep hands about 7-12inches apart and elbows should brush close to the hips/ribs as you lower chest to the floor.

Hmm, interesting. I've had an annoying click in my shoulder for almost 2yrs now. It happened March 06 when I was not doing any training. I thought I must have slept funny on it or something. Anyway, its slowly been getting worse and mainly affects me when sleeping and can get sore. Is fine in day and when doing martial arts. Finally seeing an osteopath now who says its tendonitis in shoulder (rotator cuff). Although still showing no signs of improving.

Anyway, I'm just posting this, cos I bought myself those pushup bar things around March 05 and did variations of narrow, normal and wide. I'm just wondering now whether one of these was what caused the initial injury to my shoulder? Someone else mentions how they hurt their shoulder.

Is a wide grip dangerous? Known to cause injury? Esp with the push up grip things?

Thanks!

Simon

Hornd

I use some old skool wood!!!!!!

rubadub

Actually if you get some hunks of wood you could make indents or holes in them and put and empty barbell handle across them. If you had 4 square bits of wood like in the pic and 8 nails/screws you put 2 nails in each and inch apart for the bar to rest between.


Some use those static hex dumbells as stands too. Square wood with a hole on a barbell or dumbell would work.

BossArky

I would have thought that standard round dumbells work you more as you are trying to support yourself and prevent the dumbells rolling at the same time.

Jimmy Bottlehead

BossArky wrote: »

I would have thought that standard round dumbells work you more as you are trying to support yourself and prevent the dumbells rolling at the same time.

Ah yeah, but I'd prefer to avoid the risk of my face getting severe DOMS from floor plantage.