Last year during during an agent screening with the GBI, I did 71 in a minute, vertical fist on the knuckles…but they only counted me for 62, because on 9 of them I didn’t hit the little foam pad they put under my chest. I was kind of ****ed, but not really, because I still raped the competition on that one. BTW, I didn’t get hte job…LOL…but it’s all good, b/c I’d rather go to grad school anyways…
My situps were more impressive, though. I wasn’t used to having someone sit on my toes. I’ve always practiced keeping my feet flat in and in a good unmovable structure, so I’ve developed a good frame. But on the first one I did, with this dude sitting on my toes, I was moving so fast I friggin’ stood up, then had to sit back down and take it slower with a little less enthusiasm, b/c that kills your time:D. The agent overseeing the process laughed and said: “I don’t know what that was, but it was impressive!”
i worked my way up to 76 this june before i started getting the exertion headaches (i think thats in my log actually). they werent timed, but i dont imagine it took longer than a minute. might have been a little over. to be honest my ROM wasnt what id normally accept though … looking down instead of up. i wanted to get to 100 looking down then look up and start all over with the greater range of motion.
[QUOTE=Drake;815275]It also helps if you don’t think about it. I always find myself a nice, far away place when taking the APFT.[/QUOTE]
APFT = Airforce Personnel Fitness Test?
I’m down with the nice-far-away-place sickness all right, but I’ve found it doesn’t always help; my form starts to wonder if I’m not actively checking up on the body parts that are doing the work… it works a treat for isometric exercises, like holding horse stance, iron bridge (my personal favourite ;)) or stretching, but if an arm or a leg has to move, I find I get better results when I’m consciously or semi-consciously controlling my form… I put it down to having spent so much time out of action recently, on top of not being the athletic type in general (I couldn’t do a pushup until I was 16). Just to be able to pump through 30 pushups or 100 sit-ups is still something of a novelty; like my mind doesn’t want to miss being ringside for it every time it happens…
Tried it again over the weekend; big Friday night didn’t help - only got 26 in a minute, 32 at failure… then I spent Sunday fighting off a bout of stomach flu. I’m writing this while weak as a kitten, but all the retching and dehydration of the past 24 hours have really brought out the definition in my obliques.
I’m down with the nice-far-away-place sickness all right, but I’ve found it doesn’t always help; my form starts to wonder if I’m not actively checking up on the body parts that are doing the work… it works a treat for isometric exercises, like holding horse stance, iron bridge (my personal favourite ;)) or stretching, but if an arm or a leg has to move, I find I get better results when I’m consciously or semi-consciously controlling my form… I put it down to having spent so much time out of action recently, on top of not being the athletic type in general (I couldn’t do a pushup until I was 16). Just to be able to pump through 30 pushups or 100 sit-ups is still something of a novelty; like my mind doesn’t want to miss being ringside for it every time it happens…
Tried it again over the weekend; big Friday night didn’t help - only got 26 in a minute, 32 at failure… then I spent Sunday fighting off a bout of stomach flu. I’m writing this while weak as a kitten, but all the retching and dehydration of the past 24 hours have really brought out the definition in my obliques. :D[/QUOTE]
APFT - Army Physical Fitness Test
A lot of pushup skill is the same as MA skill. It becomes muscle memory after a while. I can do them, eyes closed, and know exactly where my form is off. It comes with time, not individual skill.
And you really shouldn’t do pushups or exercise when you’re sick. You’ll make yourself sicker, and you’ll never get remotely close to your max.
[QUOTE=Drake;816059]APFT - Army Physical Fitness Test
A lot of pushup skill is the same as MA skill. It becomes muscle memory after a while. I can do them, eyes closed, and know exactly where my form is off. It comes with time, not individual skill.
And you really shouldn’t do pushups or exercise when you’re sick. You’ll make yourself sicker, and you’ll never get remotely close to your max.[/QUOTE]
Of course. The schedule for the weekend was - party-party-party Friday night, mount another couple of attempt at max-situps-in-a-minute on Saturday afternoon, spend Sunday feeling like I was about to die… the only push-up type activity I was doing then was pushing off the edge of the toilet bowl to ensure I didn’t go in face-first…
[QUOTE=BruceSteveRoy;816593]i am not planning on doing the ‘fitness test’ but i wanted to post my pushups bc i think its funny that my wife beat me. but i won’t admit it to her.
me:5’7, 185 lbs (i’m working on it) 28 yrs old. 47 pushups in a minute.
the wife: 5’4, 112 lbs, 25 yrs old. 49 pushups in a minute.[/QUOTE]
push ups - 83. I coulda done more, but I thought I saw somewhere that we had to come all the way back up… in the challenge we had at work, your chest had to touch a block that was 3 inches off the floor, and I didn’t have to go all the way back up, so I knocked out 105.
push ups - 83. I coulda done more, but I thought I saw somewhere that we had to come all the way back up… in the challenge we had at work, your chest had to touch a block that was 3 inches off the floor, and I didn’t have to go all the way back up, so I knocked out 105.
