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

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These are easy to put on and feature a crank similar to one you’d find on a ski boot to tighten or loosen the fit. Dumbbell handle thickness is also a factor as the MF won’t attach to weights with extra thick handles. You can perform various exercises with it, including leg extensions, hamstring curls, static high knees, and glute kickbacks. It fits shoe sizes up to a men’s size 14, so even lifters with a larger-than-average shoe size can use it. Lemurs, for example, lack the functional duality of the hands of most apes and Old World monkeys (catarrhines).

Where the bottom of your shoe sits is lined with a grippy rubber, and the dumbbell clamp uses the same rubber. If you’re experiencing too much torque on your lower back, change the angle of your leg so it’s closer to 45 degrees as opposed to perpendicular to the ground.

This kit contains straps that are about an inch longer than the original straps, so you can replace the original straps with the XL straps to make it easier to fit a taller shoe into the unit. they do save an astounding amount of space (and money) and still allow you to work the same muscles. MonkeyFeet, developed by Animalhouse Fitness, takes the old school, 80s-inspired ankle weights to a whole new level. Before MonkeyFeet came along, you’d have to use an ankle attachment with a cable pully machine to get an equivalent stimulus – and so it was virtually impossible to isolate the hip flexors from home. If you have Pro Style Dumbbells (with 10 LBS Plates on the ends) - you will obviously need them to be longer than if you have more compact dumbbells (e.

It would probably be better to have two binding straps distributing the weight more evenly than just one, but I'm sure that will come along soon enough. It may be possible, however, that the foot does not reach its limits of dexterity due to the constant muscle tension needed in stabilizing and balancing the foot to hold up the legs and the rest of the frame. This new product from Animalhouse Fitness allows you to max out each leg in a variety of different exercises. Within this Money Feet review, I’ll discuss build quality, how it works, benefits/drawbacks, and more. Again, although MonkeyFeet work okay, the current market seems to have passed them by, as there’s now other products that do a superior job.But it is really nice knowing you can go super heavy on leg extensions, weighted chin ups, or hanging leg raises with these.

Thick padding attempts to maximize comfort as the device is secured onto your foot, although I feel as though this device is quite uncomfortable to use. Most of the AnimalHouse MonkeyFeet attachment consists of sturdy, hard plastic, so there’s not a lot of bulk or weight before you attach a dumbbell to it. This innovative design features a ratchet-based attachment for shoes designed to securely hold a standard dumbbell. Don’t be embarrassed, though — according to some recent studies, as many as 1 in 13 people around the world may have feet that didn’t get the evolutionary memo about ground-based, bipedal locomotion and remain well-equipped for clambering up a tree at a moment’s notice.I had absolutely no problems using the MonkeyFeet barefoot, although it’s definitely not super comfortable. When it is folded forward, it opens up the circular clamp underneath the heel allowing you to place a dumbbell in the clamp.