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Key Contact: Service, Patrick | Vita
Voice: 919.NC.R.U.FIT
Email: info@youtrainfitness.com
Websites: www.youtrainfitness.com | www.peams.com

ABOUT YOUTRAINFITNESS

YOUTRAINFITNESS, LLC is a Durham, North Carolina–based fitness training and equipment company organized in 2009. The company was founded by a licensed physical educator who is an ACSM-Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Exercise Physiologist, with nearly 30 years of professional experience in physical education, fitness training, and exercise science.

YOUTRAINFITNESS, LLC is the developer and owner of the PEAMS^® Push-up Mat, a patented exercise alignment mat system. The PEAMS^® Push-up Mat is the first and only patented system designed to provide objective movement assessment and structured training functionality.

The PEAMS^® Push-up Mat provides assessment solutions designed to improve both reliability and defensibility of push-up performance testing. Reliability is achieved by standardizing hand-width placement, ensuring that each participant’s hand position remains consistent across repeated assessments. Defensibility is enhanced by anchoring hand placement to the participant’s anatomical shoulder width, thereby reducing variability and limiting the ability to dispute assessment outcomes based on positioning.

Findings from peer-reviewed research and practical experience conducting physical performance assessments indicate that hand-width placement significantly influences push-up performance outcomes, including repetition count. Observational evidence further demonstrates that even when hand placement is visually verified by an assessor, subjectivity and inconsistency may persist without a standardized positioning system.

The PEAMS^® Push-up Mat also provides a training solution by allowing participants to perform push-up exercises at a hand-width narrower than shoulder width. This training configuration emphasizes triceps muscle engagement and endurance, potentially increasing resistance to fatigue and supporting the pectoralis major muscles during standardized push-up testing conditions.

Intended institutional users include military organizations, law enforcement agencies, educational institutions, corporate and community organizations, and fitness professionals that utilize the push-up exercise as a method for training and assessing upper-body muscular endurance.

In addition, the PEAMS^® Push-up Mat is suitable for individual fitness participants seeking to improve upper-, mid-, and lower-body strength through structured push-up training.

To purchase a low quantity of our PEAMS^® Push-up Mat, please visit the product page.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Push-up Assessment Administration
  Provide training to push-up test administrators on standardized methods for identifying and verifying accurate hand-width placement using the PEAMS^® Push-up Mat and accompanying hand-width measurement chart, in accordance with organizational push-up testing standards, to support assessment reliability and defensibility.
• Push-up Test Performance Improvement
  Identify and instruct participants in specific hand-placement configurations using the PEAMS^® Push-up Mat to support targeted training adaptations intended to improve push-up test performance.
• PEAMS^® Push-up Mat Application and Use
  Provide demonstrations of standardized push-up techniques and precise hand-placement methodologies designed to enhance upper-body strength, muscular endurance, power, and movement efficiency.
• Product Design and Commercial Suitability
  Deliver a high-quality exercise alignment mat system engineered for durability, high-density construction, waterproof performance, portability, and suitability for repeated commercial and institutional use.

DIFFERENTIATORS

• Exclusive Research Focus
  Dedicated company resources exclusively to the systematic study of the push-up exercise for purposes of product development, performance assessment, and training standardization.
• Evidence-Based Development Process
  Conduct in-house exercise performance testing supported by comprehensive review of peer-reviewed exercise science and biomechanics literature.
• Technique Identification and Risk Mitigation
  Identify push-up techniques and hand-placement configurations that may improve performance outcomes, increase muscle activation efficiency, and support shoulder rehabilitation, as well as techniques identified as potentially increasing injury risk and therefore discouraged.
• Proprietary Assessment Technology
  Invented and developed the PEAMS^® Push-up Mat, a patented exercise alignment mat system designed to improve the reliability and defensibility of push-up fitness testing.

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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

• Assigned utility (US Pat. 7819777) and design (US Pat. D632119 and D657602) patents for the Push-up Exercise Alignment Mat System
• Also assigned additional foreign utility and design patents
• Assigned US trademark registration (5339383) for the PEAMS^® Push-up Mat
• Exclusive distributor of the PEAMS^® Push-up Mat
• Granted rights to produce and deliver a product that no other fitness equipment company can offer

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