In theory you can also dip lower - standard pressup / pushup, your hands on the floor are a limiting factor in the pec stretch. By raising your hands off the floor, when your chest dips it can dip lower relative to your arms meaning you stretch more and push back up from a position that adds more to the exercise.

Im no fitness expert, but I would imagine they would possibly take some of the strain from your wrists.

what's the advantage of these over using... say.... your hands?

In theory you can also dip lower - standard pressup / pushup, your hands on the floor are a limiting factor in the pec stretch. By raising your hands off the floor, when your chest dips it can dip lower relative to your arms meaning you stretch more and push back up from a position that adds more to the exercise.

My floor is free. Not voting either way.

I thought it was a pair of irons at first!

I've got these, really good for getting a deeper pushup as said already due to going down further than if you just used the floor.
I was able to carry on doing push ups even though I broke my thumb also, because the weight was in the palm of my hand when I wouldn't have been able to do a press up on the floor!
I paid around this price maybe a little less from Sainsburys instore about a year ago.

It is exactly that - saves an enormous amount of strain on your wrists. A lot depends how weak your wrists are, or how heavy you might be. It's all personal choice again, but for anyone who does a lot of press ups, this will save the wrists.

can press ups build your chest up?

Now £3.00!

Has anyone tried generation matrix sd.??
It's supposed to be good for gains

Thanks PrincessJellybean.

My order (at £3.00) arrived today.

Thank-you to you too, for letting people know the price had fallen even lower :smiley:

Link please :innocent:

I have asked for the deal to be expired because they are currently out of stock, you can still order them but they may take 1-3 weeks to be dispatched. The link is:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/York-Fitness-60034-Pushup-Stands/dp/B000N3T1C2
The Amazon £3.00 ones can be selected on the right-hand side of the page.

Ahh thx Ms Beeean <3

But I was just havin' a little (not very funny) joke with 'backtothecaves' & his "floor is free" comment. You know, like a link to his floor. Err, see, told you it wasn't very funny :laughing:

Haha oh yea :smile: I completely missed the fact you were replying to backtothecaves there.... lol
It was the middle of the night and I thought, yikes that person needs a link.
Had I been less tired I would have had a chuckle because your joke when read 'properly' is pretty funny. :laughing: