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

Product Information

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 But it is really nice knowing you can go super heavy on leg extensions, weighted chin ups, or hanging leg raises with these. What Dumbbells Work With MonkeyFeet?

Despite being made of plastic and weighing just over one pound, the AnimalHouse MonkeyFeet can hold up to a 160-pound dumbbell. It fits shoe sizes up to a men’s 14, and the 14.488-inch ratchet strap and 4.724-inch mounting hole strap enable you to get a customized fit. Jake doing Leg Extensions with the Animalhouse MonkeyFeet Yet, while chimp feet and bodies can’t do what humans can, it doesn’t appear to be a problem if our feet work like chimpanzee feet. In fact, two studies(one from Boston University and the other from Dartmouth) have proven that about eight percent of the population have the mobility of chimpanzee feet, which allows some societies to functionally adapt their feet and calf muscles to allow them to climb trees like chimps do.We also love that it’s easy to carry around for times when you may want to bring it to a commercial gym. Fit

Plastic straps. Like a ski or snowboard shoe, the Monkey Feet has ridged plastic straps to tighten against your foot. However, the fact that this is intended to hold heavy weights and be lifted and lowered repeatedly may cause wear and tear on the cheap plastic straps in time. 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 You technically can do them, but it’s simply not a very effective way to train the tibialis because the weight is on your heel and really needs to be closer to your toes. If you find the AnimalHouse MonkeyFeet don’t fit well when you first get them, you can remove the straps with a wrench and change which hole gets mounted to the device to shorten or lengthen them. Maximum Foot Size and Shoe Compatibility

Animal House Fitness – Monkey Feet REVIEW

It’s a great way to develop balance as well as all of the stabilizers in your upper legs and hips. 12. Bird Dog Yes, I was very skeptical about this goofy looking product too… until I saw the ways you can spice up some amazing bodyweight exercises that I personally don’t find myself doing very often. With Monkey Feet, my leg workouts have changed in a great way. Takes some getting used to. The Monkey Feet feel pretty awkward at first. You should only put it on when you’re in position for its dedicated exercise(s). You don’t want to walk around with this thing on! It’s also not exactly comfortable… not that it’s supposed to be. In addition, many of the abdominal calisthenic exercises I do involve using my legs and feet. Therefore, Animal House Fitness’s Monkey Feet are also great for the following ab workouts:

The range of motion is very minimal, especially if you’re doing it correctly, but it’s one of the best ways to fully activate the glute and it’s definitely a favorite of mine. This is another one of the most simple MonkeyFeet movements that’s excellent for developing the glutes. This sort of pronation/supination of the leg is going to absolutely light your thighs up and you can bet your ass it’s going to hurt in the morning! While eight percent of the population exhibits a flexible midtarsal breakin their feet, people with midtarsal break rarely realize that they have one, as it doesn’t affect their gait. The Walking Test 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. Can You Do Tib Raises With MonkeyFeet?

Animal House – Monkey Feet Specs

This makes it ideal particularly for patella tendonitis sufferers who need to get regular VMO work in to drive synovial fluid into the knee joint. When we sit at a desk all day long, our hip flexors get incredibly tight and weak since we rarely perform movements that use them. Either way you like it, this is an amazing way to hit the lower abdominals as well as the hip flexors at the same time.