You see the infomercials on them, and immediately you think “where’s Chuck Norris and Suzanne Summer’s endorsement on this one?” But perfect push ups actually work and they can be used as a great tool to change up your chest routines. I am always trying to find new ways to reconfigure my workouts to get the same or even better results. At the same time, I am afraid to try new exercises in fear that they may be inferior to the ones that I already have in the sense that they might not yield the same quality of results. But when my roommate ordered these things from the TV, I thought to myself “I gotta at least give em a shot.” So one day when I was being rather lazy and unmotivated, I decided that I was going to do a weightless chest workout at home – consisting only of the many variations of push-ups and dips that you can do. I started off with the perfect push-ups because I heard that they could be quite intense. After doing four sets of 35 my entire body was decimated. I was able to do the rest of my work out but only at ¾ capacity, it was as if I was maxing that day.

Because of how drained I felt and how pumped my body was after that work out, I began to incorporate push-ups into my chest routine. I have been lifting seriously for quite some time now, so I am used to seeing the plateau that many of us hit after our routines become…well, routines. After initiating the perfect push-up, the diamond push up and the weighted dip into my workout I could almost immediately see the results and I could feel them as well. It is really hard to figure out my workouts because one professional will say maxing out constantly will increase muscle max, another will say increased reps with minimal maxing will do the trick and others say that resistance training and natural workouts are the best. I am no expert by any means so please, if I am off basis here, throw my words right out the window – but I thoroughly believe that it all depends on your body and your body type. I am a taller guy with really long arms, so it is tough to truly see immediate results sometimes and when you do begin to see them, they are usually followed by that plateau period. But I have found that this period can be easily broken up by interweaving naturalistic workouts with moderate maxing and heavy weigh protein intake. Throwing in the perfect push-ups to a chest routine has done wonders for my upper pectorals and weighted dips (real ones not the machine) have done wonders for my triceps. Take it or leave it, like I said I am by no means an expert, but if you are looking for a change try throwing in some natural exercises into your routine…who knows it might work for you too.