How many push ups??
seanoconn
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Lets sort the men from the boys.
How many honest push ups can you do currently?
Video evidence may be required!
How many honest push ups can you do currently?
Video evidence may be required!
Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי
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How many days do i have?
None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0 -
None - being British I do press ups instead
it's a hard life if you don't weaken.0 -
We also need to specify whether we're talking about the proper ones, where the hands are only shoulder width apart, or the wussy ones, where they're further out.Is the gorilla tired yet?0
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ChrisAOnABike wrote:We also need to specify whether we're talking about the proper ones, where the hands are only shoulder width apart, or the wussy ones, where they're further out.
Also each one has to take 3 seconds down, 3 seconds up or it doesn't count. Me? About 20 these days I think :oops: Never been able to do a single handed one either.0 -
:shock:Pross wrote:Also each one has to take 3 seconds down, 3 seconds up or it doesn't count.Is the gorilla tired yet?0 -
Wussy ones. The body must be lowered until at least 90 degree-angle is attained at the elbow and the body is parralel to the ground. The body must then be raised until the arms are straight. This constitutes one push/press up.ChrisAOnABike wrote:We also need to specify whether we're talking about the proper ones, where the hands are only shoulder width apart, or the wussy ones, where they're further out.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
You can take as long as you like baby but I'm not hanging about.Pross wrote:ChrisAOnABike wrote:We also need to specify whether we're talking about the proper ones, where the hands are only shoulder width apart, or the wussy ones, where they're further out.
Also each one has to take 3 seconds down, 3 seconds up or it doesn't count.
If I count twice as many it's your tough luck! Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
Probably about 40. Used to do 40 each morning - but now do 20/25.0
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I used to be able to do 70, with a record of 82. Currently I cannot do a single one due to my ankle.0
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Not a lot... got the skinny arms of a small girl (helps with cycling though right?)0
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As a kid I held the school record of 85 in a minute - nowadays at 47 years old if I can do 30 I am happy and knackered and in pain and regretting having too much to drink and therefore accepting the press up challenge and then I get told off by my wife for damaging my messed up shoulders even more.0
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haven't tried it continuously for a while, currently doing 20-1min rest-20-rest-20-rest-20-rest-15-rest-15, from arms straight to nose/chin on floor. That takes me up to 110, this time last year it was better, up to about 140 but I get bored of it and stop, only to start again later.0
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80 in 2 minutes - last army physical fitness test. then 70 sit ups in 2 mins followed by 1.5 miles in 10 minutes. Im 36 so im a bit slower on the run these days.0
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Nuch the same as Steve - annual BFT: 82 press ups in 2 mins, 8:24 mile and a half, 80 sits up in 2 minutes.
The test is run one thing after another so you may get quite tired towards the end. But at the end of the day, its part of the job.0 -
Fifty and improving
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Google the Army 300 club - essentially its the maximum grades that you can get on your annual BFT: its pretty difficult (nothing massive though - deffo not IronMan standards) but a good thing to aim for to get all round fit.0
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Push ups? Do you mean the proper one handed ones like Sly Stallone does, or the wussy two handed ones that they do in the Parachute Regiment?0
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Will do, thanks.Yossie wrote:Google the Army 300 club - essentially its the maximum grades that you can get on your annual BFT: its pretty difficult (nothing massive though - deffo not IronMan standards) but a good thing to aim for to get all round fit.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
Capoera (sic) press ups are cool - arms spread well wide, as you go down you lean right across to one shoulder then t'other: to actually see what they are instead of my rubbish explanation, Google capoera, but be sure to spell it right not some retardo way I have. Its that Brazilian thing. Blokes who wear t shirts with no sleeves do it, but don't let that put you off, normal people do it as well.0
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Yossie wrote:Nuch the same as Steve - annual BFT: 82 press ups in 2 mins, 8:24 mile and a half, 80 sits up in 2 minutes.
The test is run one thing after another so you may get quite tired towards the end. But at the end of the day, its part of the job.
I'll bring the tone back down to more human levels with my paltry 55 press ups, 50 sit ups and a 10:20 run time
is being a part timer an excuse?0 -
Erm. If I had the arms for it, I'd probably buy a sleeveless t-shirt....or wife beater vest :oops:Yossie wrote:Capoera (sic) press ups are cool - arms spread well wide, as you go down you lean right across to one shoulder then t'other: to actually see what they are instead of my rubbish explanation, Google capoera, but be sure to spell it right not some retardo way I have. Its that Brazilian thing. Blokes who wear t shirts with no sleeves do it, but don't let that put you off, normal people do it as well.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
Can almost smell the testosterone.Tail end Charlie
The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.0 -
MichaelW wrote:Push ups? Do you mean the proper one handed ones like Sly Stallone does, or the wussy two handed ones that they do in the Parachute Regiment?
2 armed - no one is as hard as Sly, no matter who they say they are/waht they do (apart from Chuck Norris that is - I understand that he does press ups using his tongue following a UN sanction aganst him using his arms as he was leaving craters in the ground and the world moving up and down on each press up was affecting global stability.
He started doing them using his beard but the static electricity that was generated was causing electromagnetic interference and everyone initially thought that there was a James Bond styleee baddie trying to take over the internet and get cheap things from John Lewis and Debenhams for their volcano hideaway).0 -
Mmmmmm. I love the smell of testosterone in the morning.Frank the tank wrote:Can almost smell the testosterone.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
Yossie wrote:Nuch the same as Steve - annual BFT: 82 press ups in 2 mins, 8:24 mile and a half, 80 sits up in 2 minutes.
Show off! My best was only ever 9:06...could never break 9mins
Has it always been sit/press ups? Can remember....got out in '99.
Currently can do about 60...just to exhaustion so no time limit0 -
I just did 300 of these as a pre-bed workout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpH0Ymiri8g0
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ALIHISGREAT wrote:I just did 300 of these as a pre-bed workout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpH0Ymiri8g
Oh dear. Just tried that little exercise. The muscles went taught and there is no way that is possible for me. I'll stick to lifting the kids and pints.0
