Push Up Bars for the Home Gym

Assembling your home gym isn’t really as hard or expensive as you might think. Getting the right exercise equipment is important but you may also be surprised at the quality of workout you can get with some simple pieces of exercise equipment.

Today I am going to talk about push up bars. These are simple pieces of equipment that make one of the best exercises of all time even better. Push up bars can be had for less than $10 and are another piece of equipment that will pretty much last forever.

The push up works nearly every muscle in your body, it is no wonder that the military loves to use them. Push ups are challenging and rewarding, you can work up to doing hundreds if you put your mind to it and in the process build a fabulously strong body.

The push up bars are simple. They are just two handles that rest on the floor and allow you to go deeper when you reach the bottom of the push up position. They simply increase your range of motion making the exercise more difficult, forcing you to work harder and getting more out of the muscles involved.

Push up bars also allow your wrists to sit at a more neutral state when doing the exercise. This basically eliminates the most common push up injury, tweaked wrists. Some brands of push up bars actually rotate while you are completing the push up to maximize this neutral position and reduce the risk of injury.

When you are looking for a little more from your home gym and don’t have a bucket load of cash to spend this is a great investment. You will be able to use these for numerous exercises and your ROI will be substantial. If you combine push up bars with the weight vests that I have previously discussed you will increase your gains further and see even better results.

If you are a Scrooge or just too lazy to go to the store and spend the money for push up bars you can get away with using dumb bells instead. They don’t work quite as well because they don’t have any built in slant, they may not be tall enough and they have the tendency to slide on hard surfaces, but they are an alternative.