How many push-ups can you do?

[Superman=#54]

280

[rkmsuf]

You are one whimpy superman then.

[Anthony]

Superman:

now how many can you do without doing it "girly-style" (on your knees)?

[Greyroofoo]

64 in a minute

[Raiders Army]

About 75 in one minute, about 110 in two minutes.

[TredWel]

I estimate 3000.

That's cumulative, over the course of my life.

[GoldenEagle]

I can do about two.

[terpkristin]

I can do about 30-40 if I do them at a "normal" pace.
When I was doing martial arts, our instructors would have us do things like pushups going only "halfway up" and holding, which was certainly much more difficult...

I really need to get back to doing push-ups regularly.

/tk

[Blackadar]

3, on a good day.

[Huckleberry]

http://www.icecreamplanet.com/a.PierresSlideups.jpg

I can do 12 at one sitting. Easy.

[Cringer]

I can do about 30-40 too. I usually do 4 sets of 12 or so, so I think I could get up over 30. I am back down to about the 260 lb. range now for body weight.

Now I am getting energized to work out. My jogging has become much more enjoyable lately, as I now am not sucking wind after a mile.

[Cringer]

http://www.icecreamplanet.com/a.PierresSlideups.jpg

I can do 12 at one sitting. Easy.

excellent. :)

[MikeVic]

... as I now am not sucking wind after a mile.

What are you sucking then?

[Cringer]

What are you sucking then?

Loren

[Zippo]

well, continously probably only 20, but taking breaks in between, I can get a good 80 pushups in there.

[Critch]

Depends on whether your gut has to leave the floor or not.

[jeff061]

One. One is all you need.

[WSUCougar]

"That's none."

[Samdari]

I can push up my 26 pound son about 15 times.

As for my 226 pound ass, forget it.

[Swaggs]

Who cares?

It's really all about how much do you bench?!

[DanGarion]

How about handstand pushups?

[rkmsuf]

Who cares?

It's really all about how much do you bench?!


Pieces or pounds?

[Cringer]

How about handstand pushups?

I keep wanting to combine two threads into one...

How many push-ups can you do while driving to work?
:rolleyes:

[Poli]

None. I am not allowed to do pushups.

[Pumpy Tudors]

One. One is all you need.
I don't think he meant that kind of push-up.

[Coffee Warlord]

Loren

Classic.

And pixplz.

[korme]

I can do about two.
Big time bad asses on this board. I can probably do about 20 before I feel like it's getting hard and would quit.

[jeff061]

I don't think he meant that kind of push-up.


And I was debating whether I should bother ;).

[Fonzie]

And I was debating whether I should bother ;).
One must always bother with The D.

[Samdari]

Big time bad asses on this board. I can probably do about 20 before I feel like it's getting hard and would quit.

I could push up 15 pounds 100 times, big deal.

[Cringer]

I could push up 15 pounds 100 times, big deal.

nice.
:D

[BigJohn&TheLions]

Big time bad asses on this board. I can probably do about 20 before I feel like it's getting hard and would quit.
This was not about what turns you on. You are indeed a sick, sick man.

[vex]

45. VERY out of shape though.

[Aesyrqwe]

Around 60

-Aes

[Superman=#54]

BTW, I can't do 280 in one continous setting. I do my push-ups in sets of 20, over about an hour or so.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

About 75 in one minute, about 110 in two minutes.
Im not as big a PT stud. :( I average about 58-65 in 1 min. and about 70 in 2 min. though I normally stop with 40 sec left.

[vex]

"65 in 1 min. and about 70 in 2 min"

That's a rough 2nd minute :P

[Dutch]

I mustered a personal best of 54 in one minute at my PT test I took in July. Shaking the whole last bit of it like a wet dog. haha. But I did it.

Haven't done a single one since then because of the damned softball injury I suffered 3 days later.

[Pumpy Tudors]

What the hell is this "PT test" you're talking about? Is this a Pumpy Tudors test? How did I not know about this, and is that why I walk funny?

[Dutch]

What the hell is this "PT test" you're talking about? Is this a Pumpy Tudors test? How did I not know about this, and is that why I walk funny?

Hmmmm, I was shaking like a wet dog to pass my Pumpy Tudor's test. That's just wrong.

[thetrilogy]

Push Ups do nothing for you.

The question should be, 'How many pull-ups can you do?'
And I mean with your forearms facing you. OK tuff guys.

[jeff061]

None. Can't do jack for push ups, pull ups or any of that.

I'm still an intimidating physical presence though so I'm ok with that :).

[FrogMan]

I can do about 30-40 if I do them at a "normal" pace.
When I was doing martial arts, our instructors would have us do things like pushups going only "halfway up" and holding, which was certainly much more difficult...

30 at a slowed down pace is about my max right now, never been very good with push-ups.

Since TK brought up the martial arts instructors, mine makes us do 10, then we have to stay 6 inches of the floor for a count of 10, then we do another 10, then another count of 10 at 6 inches off the floor, then another 10, well you see the drill... I usually can do the first two sequences of 10 and sometimes last through the second count of 10 before I bite the dust... Also to take into account that these pushups usually come after we've done 15 "popcorn jumps" (basically 2 feet jump in the air, drop to the floor to pushup position, do one pushup and jump back up with 2 feet in the air), so we've already done 15...

I still love karate though, don't get me wrong :)

FM

[FrogMan]

The question should be, 'How many pull-ups can you do?'
And I mean with your forearms facing you. OK tuff guys.
Seriously, that used to be my most hated test when I was a hockey referee. They had you make these pull-ups and a guy was in charge of making sure you were not balancing your weight AT ALL. I think I once did 10...

FM

[Anthony]

what do you mean "balancing your weight"? i used to be very good at pullups when i was in high school. i used to practice in my house by jumping up and holding on to my bedroom door-frame and would pull myself up by my fingertips (very, very hard). i'd do a couple of those, strengthening my hands and forearms.

one day during gym we all had to do pullups and were being tested on how many we could do. everyone topped off at 5 or so. i shattered everyone's mark by doing 28 (then someone else beat that number cuz it's easy to do something when you have a specific number in mind that you have to beat rather than competing against yourself which i was forced to do). when i was done our gym teacher got everyone's attention and made everyone applaud for me. it was a great moment for me, especially while i was doing it and once i hit like 15 people were whispering "woooah, what the hell..." and "no way man" in shock.

i don't know how many i can do now, i think i try to stay away from pullups cuz i don't want to not be able to do as well as i did when i was younger and be reminded at how much i let myself go and how much older i've got.

[FrogMan]

what do you mean "balancing your weight"? i used to be very good at pullups when i was in high school. i used to practice in my house by jumping up and holding on to my bedroom door-frame and would pull myself up by my fingertips (very, very hard). i'd do a couple of those, strengthening my hands and forearms.

Once you've done a few, you can sort of start "wavering" from front to back a little which makes it easier to do a few more than when your body is kept very straight.

hmm, pull by the fingertips, ouch...

FM

[Anthony]

yup...i either was too cheap to buy a pullup bar or was to lazy to get one.

[vtbub]

0, zip, none

[Karlifornia]

Not too many, usually...unless your mom is under me.

[Neon_Chaos]

One. One is all you need.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. :D Tenacious D referrences rock.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

I mustered a personal best of 54 in one minute at my PT test I took in July. Shaking the whole last bit of it like a wet dog. haha. But I did it.

Haven't done a single one since then because of the damned softball injury I suffered 3 days later.
Just get a medical profile to avoid doing PT. :)

[Vince]

i used to practice in my house by jumping up and holding on to my bedroom door-frame and would pull myself up by my fingertips (very, very hard)
I did that a few times as a kid -- then I broke a door frame and bruised the living hell out of my tailbone. Haven't done it since.

[Joe Canadian]

I don't really see the point of seeing how many push-ups you can do in a certain amount of time... because then you're not doing the excersise properly. I can do 74 good push-ups...

[BigJohn&TheLions]

I can do about 20 "good" push-ups before my wrist starts telling me that it is a really bad idea. I got a plate and 6 screws in it so that all the little bones are kept in place. A year ago I still couldn't do one. (it's been three years ago today, 8/10 when I crushed the wrist. the doctor used the term "powdered" to describe the bone...)

[Dutch]

Just get a medical profile to avoid doing PT. :)

That's what I'm on, until the 18th of August. :)

[Dutch]

I don't really see the point of seeing how many push-ups you can do in a certain amount of time... because then you're not doing the excersise properly. I can do 74 good push-ups...

The only point that I'm aware of is to get a very standard way to getting A LOT of PT tests done by the military over the course of a year. If you just tell people to do 50 "good" pushups....well, "good" means different things to different people and the ammount of time you have means different things. So the military (at least the AF) just says, screw it, you have 1 minute....go.

But the rest of the year, you should be striving to do proper workouts.

[Bo Jackson's Hip]

What do you Military guys get on your PT tests. My highest ever was about 275. I maxed the pushups and situps, but then only got 75 points on the 2 mile run.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

What do you Military guys get on your PT tests. My highest ever was about 275. I maxed the pushups and situps, but then only got 75 points on the 2 mile run.

About the same. Need to work on that 2 mile run too. I usually barely pass the run, but still passing. :)

[Dr. Sak]

Big time bad asses on this board. I can probably do about 20 before I feel like it's getting hard and would quit.

Thats because your fat ass probably gained about 30 lbs during your freshman year from drinking.

[Raiders Army]

What do you Military guys get on your PT tests. My highest ever was about 275. I maxed the pushups and situps, but then only got 75 points on the 2 mile run.
Over 290 every time. A couple times I've gotten over 300, but that was when I was much younger. :)

Maxing push-ups and sit-ups is the smart way to go to get over 290. Pretty much every push-up or sit-up is a point. Every six seconds on the run is a point. I'd rather do five more push-ups than run 30 seconds faster.

[Schmidty]

Like 40 at a time, but I have a 14-inch penis. How big is YOURS, HMMMMMMMMM????????????????????????????????????

[Dutch]

Like 40 at a time, but I have a 14-inch penis. How big is YOURS, MMMMMMMMM...........................

WTF?

[Schmidty]

WTF?

You got me pegged, ya big lug. :eek:

[Sun Tzu]

I've never tried to do more than 100 at a time. I usualy have a good amount of energy left when I hit 100...but it just never occured to me to actualy max out on pushups. I max on the bench at 260...which is pretty good considering I weigh 160.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Over 290 every time. A couple times I've gotten over 300, but that was when I was much younger. :)

Maxing push-ups and sit-ups is the smart way to go to get over 290. Pretty much every push-up or sit-up is a point. Every six seconds on the run is a point. I'd rather do five more push-ups than run 30 seconds faster.
I'd give anythign to go down another 30 secs on my run, Id also give ups some of my PU and SU to pass the tape test with flying colors instead of sucking my gut in.
:D