Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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Pushups

Murkster
Murkster
Posts: 9
Joined: 2005/12/19
United States
2006/07/09, 10:53 PM
Anybody know what percentage of a person's body weight they're "benching" while doing pushups?
ecle5c
ecle5c
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Joined: 2003/07/10
United States
2006/07/10, 08:17 PM
http://www.bodyresults.com/E2pushupbodyweightpercent.asp

It says about 70%, I would think a little less though.
Bighoss147
Bighoss147
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Joined: 2004/10/06
United States
2006/07/11, 12:28 AM
I've heard it's 55%, though its simply what I've heard. Push ups seem to recruit muscle fibers from all over so while the bench may seem fundamentally similar I think the two are pretty different. I just did my ceremonial 50 pushups + light abs I just do before I go to bed and there is no way I could bench 70% of my body weight for 50 reps, although I do weigh about 200lbs give or take 5.