Animalhouse Fitness MonkeyFeet Lift Dumbbells with Your Legs | Strengthen Your Glutes, Hamstrings, Quads, and Hip Flexors at Home or at Any Gym

Product Information

This would add increased tension at the top of the raise which would mean you could get away with doing lower weights. 5. Leg Extension Each AnimalHouse MonkeyFeet attachment can hold up to a 160-pound dumbbell, so anyone from beginnersto advanced lifters can use them. Strap Length Conventional wisdom has always claimed that the human mid-foot is rigid, which allows for more efficient walking while chimpanzees and other apes have flexible feet better suited to grasping branches as they move through the trees. This isn’t my favorite way of doing leg extensions with the MonkeyFeet, but it’s super convenient if you don’t have a box or anything to prop yourself up on. While it hasn’t affected the functionality of either the AnimalHouse MonkeyFeet or our dumbbells, this is something to keep in mind if you’re concerned about your equipment’s aesthetics. Portability

Monkey Feet work by attaching dumbbells to your feet to perform exercises, and it goes without saying that you need dumbbells. Not only do you need dumbbells, but there are also some limiting factors that means not every dumbbell will work. While it is possible to do tibialis raises with MonkeyFeet, it really isn’t a very good way to do this exercise – the product simply wasn’t designed for this use. As you can see, the weight is situated too closely to the heel and needs to be further towards the toes for this to be an effective way to do tib raises. If you want super strong glutes, you can’t neglect the opposing muscle group (i.e. hip flexors), which is why we’ve seen the likes of Usain Bolt doing these exercises. 2. Hamstring Curl

Animal House – Monkey Feet Specs

One AnimalHouse MonkeyFeet attachment weighs a mere 1.2 pounds. While we don’t know its exact dimensions, you can rest assured that it’s pretty compact when not loaded with a dumbbell. For reference, we’d say it’s about the same size as a woman’s ankle boot. Materials If you work out in a home gym and are bored with doing the same lower body exercises over and over, an AnimalHouse MonkeyFeet attachment can help you add more variety to your leg days. This innovative tool can hold up to a 160-pound dumbbell and allows you to do isolation movements you would otherwise need, say, a leg extension machineto do. The foam inside the attachment prevents hard plastic from digging into your feet and Achilles. This small but mighty tool can be an excellent option for those who can’t fit large machines in their home gym space. Size and Weight Did Animal House Fitness intend for their Monkey Feet to go so far beyond leg workouts? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, this is an innovative and exciting new product that I definitely recommend to my fellow bodyweight enthusiasts! Finally, some variety to our leg workouts! And as always, remember to stretch!

This exercise trains the hip flexors as well as lower abdominals – it’s an extremely underrated movement. Don’t be deceived, this is an extremely difficult movement when you’re adding weights so be sure to start off with something very light. We also love that it’s easy to carry around for times when you may want to bring it to a commercial gym. FitThe midtarsal breakis a medial shift in the center of the pressure trajectory with dorsiflexion of the midtarsal joint(the joint between the talus and the navicular bone as well as the joint between the calcaneus and the cuboid bone), occurring during the gait of an unstable foot, when the body transfers weight from rearfoot to forefoot. It is also noteworthy that Monkey Feet have been adopted into ATG (Athletic Truth Group) as a piece of equipment that can be used to promote strength, health, and recovery and to train safely. Individuals who don’t do a lot of traditional strength training won’t have much use for an AnimalHouse MonkeyFeet attachment. This product isn’t the same as an ankle weightyou can wear for walkingor running and isn’t designed for high-impact, dynamicworkouts. If you are using a solid box, you’ll need to prop your leg up with something so that it’s not touching the front of the box when it’s in a fully relaxed position. These can be done a number of ways. You can either alternate as shown below, or keep your legs together and move them that way.