Blackie Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 and I thought I was bad. its weird, im not fat just unbelivable un fit. i'm too lazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewen Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 True story. Came home from work once, had a cuppa, then went upstairs to log on here on the PC in my lads bedroom. As I walked through the doorway, bang, I saw stars... it felt like someone had blatted me across the nose with an iron bar. I instinctively jumped backwards and fell flat on my arse, totally shocked and in considerable pain. I got to my feet and turned the landing light on...wtf, my son had installed a pull-up bar across his bedroom door frame just low enough for my wife to reach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 True story. Came home from work once, had a cuppa, then went upstairs to log on here on the PC in my lads bedroom. As I walked through the doorway, bang, I saw stars... it felt like someone had blatted me across the nose with an iron bar. I instinctively jumped backwards and fell flat on my arse, totally shocked and in considerable pain. I got to my feet and turned the landing light on...wtf, my son had installed a pull-up bar across his bedroom door frame just low enough for my wife to reach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraGirlie Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 u must have a belly of steel!! Lol yeah I used to! Trying to get it back again, luckily I still have very strong stomach muscles from when I was very fit so find it easy to do 300 situps at a time, should probably join the gym as well though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 depends who is underneath me at the time:d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miko_supra Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 i can do loads. heres a video of myself... http://youtube.com/watch?v=trTuIzmRbFs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 depends who is underneath me at the time:d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl_S Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 I'm 6'4 and weigh 17 stone so my fulcrum weight is much higher than the average person. That said i can still do around 50 pressups but not at any fast rate. Situps on the other hand, i did over 3000 in one sitting once for a competition in the gym. I was allowed as many goes as i liked in a week but i was going on holiday so i needed to make my go count. Nearest behind me was just under 1000 most of them were conventional crunches but some were bench situps with the legs out which are bloody hard. Think i managed around 300 of those bad boys during that "session". Got a steak dinner for 2 at the hilton though Scott =op you own a MiG29? seriously though thats good going, even though I don't understand what fulcrum weight is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl_S Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 i can do loads. heres a video of myself... http://youtube.com/watch?v=trTuIzmRbFs LMFAO.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Hmm this could get boring... amuse yourselves if you don't want to hear it..... The fulcrum or pivotal point of the body during pressups is your feet. The force needed to do a pressup depends on the distance from your feet to your fingers and your weight. Basically force x distance. The taller you are the harder it is to do a pushup even if you weigh the same as a shorter person. The distance from the pivot to the fingers is greater therefor even when the force (force required to lift your weight) is the same with 2 people, the distance that is multiplying it is greater the taller you are. Taller people have a bigger advantage with pulling, shorter people have a bigger advantage with pushing. Dunno if that will help or confuse you more. I know what i mean though lol Scott =op Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 fulcrums etc etc etc Scott =op I think he was taking the piss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I don't do press ups - I push the world down. Quite tempted to find out but I've just done a 10km run down the gym and I think I might be sick if I do any more exercise tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Pah, childsplay. I'm so tough I'm not doing pushups I'm bench pressing the world. I'm a fat bstid now, over 16 stone and 6'4" so struggle to 25. I used to be able to press pretty heavy, (max 95/100kilos) but lack stamina. I'm just starting training again and pressing 55k kilos is tough atm. I get tired running the bath now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I think he was taking the piss oi where did you get that qoute from:d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozz Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I don't do press ups - I push the world down. Quite tempted to find out but I've just done a 10km run down the gym and I think I might be sick if I do any more exercise tonight. lol that will teach me to type slow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 lol that will teach me to type slow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I have a pretty shiny blue car Gaz, you do know you can 'edit' any quote dont you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RICHARDA Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 can reach 60 in 1 minute 2 seconds I can still do this and I am 35 so there is hope. 10 yrs teaching kickboxing does help the old fitness thou. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannhauser Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 In 1988, I did a sponsored press-ups for Tear Fund. I did 10,000 in nine hours four mins. First 2,000 were in sets of fifty -as far as I remember - then sets of thirty for the rest. Mind you, I only weighed about eleven stone at the time. I doubt I could do 50 now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl_S Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 Hmm this could get boring... amuse yourselves if you don't want to hear it..... The fulcrum or pivotal point of the body during pressups is your feet. The force needed to do a pressup depends on the distance from your feet to your fingers and your weight. Basically force x distance. The taller you are the harder it is to do a pushup even if you weigh the same as a shorter person. The distance from the pivot to the fingers is greater therefor even when the force (force required to lift your weight) is the same with 2 people, the distance that is multiplying it is greater the taller you are. Taller people have a bigger advantage with pulling, shorter people have a bigger advantage with pushing. Dunno if that will help or confuse you more. I know what i mean though lol Scott =op I know what you mean- well explained... you into's maths then? Pah, childsplay. I'm so tough I'm not doing pushups I'm bench pressing the world. I'm a fat bstid now, over 16 stone and 6'4" so struggle to 25. I used to be able to press pretty heavy, (max 95/100kilos) but lack stamina. I'm just starting training again and pressing 55k kilos is tough atm. I get tired running the bath now. I bench 50kg on the smith machine at the moment. In 1988, I did a sponsored press-ups for Tear Fund. I did 10,000 in nine hours four mins. First 2,000 were in sets of fifty -as far as I remember - then sets of thirty for the rest. Mind you, I only weighed about eleven stone at the time. I doubt I could do 50 now Oh my god mate. 10,000 in nine hours? what was going through your mind after 5000? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminator Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Just managed 150 in a minute, my keyboard does not have a sit up button though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 What, cock push ups? I can do one, but then that's all you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 In 1988, I did a sponsored press-ups for Tear Fund. I did 10,000 in nine hours four mins. First 2,000 were in sets of fifty -as far as I remember - then sets of thirty for the rest. Mind you, I only weighed about eleven stone at the time. I doubt I could do 50 now I reckon I could manage the 50...in 9 hours four mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoff Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Depends whats below me:D To be honest Ive not done any for ages (you can tell from looking), but when I used to play footy a few years ago I used to do 75 in the morning and 100 when i got back from work. Now I think 10 would kill me:blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 So this fulcrum weight thing explains why I find pressups so damn hard? I can do 17 at best but I'm 2m tall I guess it stacks up with the fulcrum thing cos my arms are longer too so I move my (heavier) body a longer distance and it takes more leverage? Bah. I did a pressup on a set of scales once and it went to about 70kg, is that a reliable measure of how much you are shifting around? Actually surely this could be used with "length of arms" to roughly work out "work done"...? -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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