We'll be 'that guy'....and we hate 'that guy', we are down bad this morning
Are you doing pushups or 'pushups'? Looked up a video since 3200 pushups in an hour is ~1 a second and doing a full pushup takes at least 1 second. (Doing 3000 anything in an hour is super impressive, and he followed the rules of the competition and guy is a beast. Also we just tried and hit 200 in a few mins but were gassed so very impressive record)...
But if we are making guesses on DeMuth's performance there is a big difference between:
1) Chest graze floor under control real pushup
2) Chest to fist crossfit style competition pushup
3) Chest to...some arbitrary level between plank and above 90 degrees
I'm going with 1) both in style and in my estimate (coincidentally you guessed identically with my first guess). I really have little to go on. I am okay at Murph in well under an hour (200 but with a weight vest) but am pretty done with pushups at the end. So 300 sounds surmountable given the standards you mention. 600 sounds like the upper limit to aspire to someday. And I'm happier under real control both for my own selfish fitness and safety and also for a bit of intellectual honesty on what I'm really doing. Pounding them out at maximum velocity sounds unpleasant.
Just tried those 'rage pushups' and my elbow tendons are beat - probably need to build up to that.
Never tried this, but do some 'density training' on and off (where you set a timer and go for max reps in the time). Doing 20 reps when fresh and down to 1-2 reps between rests by the end.
Interested to hear the final number and what gives out first, arms or core or something silly like toes
And my elbow tendons are beat heading into this so that pretty much answers the question on if I should even try any of those. Might someday but not this weekend. If you're close enough, you should join us!
I write a substack newsletter about fintech and financial services called the fintech explorer: https://fintechexplorer.substack.com/. Check it out and let me know what you think!
2/3rds of the way there.
We'll be 'that guy'....and we hate 'that guy', we are down bad this morning
Are you doing pushups or 'pushups'? Looked up a video since 3200 pushups in an hour is ~1 a second and doing a full pushup takes at least 1 second. (Doing 3000 anything in an hour is super impressive, and he followed the rules of the competition and guy is a beast. Also we just tried and hit 200 in a few mins but were gassed so very impressive record)...
But if we are making guesses on DeMuth's performance there is a big difference between:
1) Chest graze floor under control real pushup
2) Chest to fist crossfit style competition pushup
3) Chest to...some arbitrary level between plank and above 90 degrees
Our guesses would be:
1) 300
2) 500
3) 900
I'm going with 1) both in style and in my estimate (coincidentally you guessed identically with my first guess). I really have little to go on. I am okay at Murph in well under an hour (200 but with a weight vest) but am pretty done with pushups at the end. So 300 sounds surmountable given the standards you mention. 600 sounds like the upper limit to aspire to someday. And I'm happier under real control both for my own selfish fitness and safety and also for a bit of intellectual honesty on what I'm really doing. Pounding them out at maximum velocity sounds unpleasant.
Just tried those 'rage pushups' and my elbow tendons are beat - probably need to build up to that.
Never tried this, but do some 'density training' on and off (where you set a timer and go for max reps in the time). Doing 20 reps when fresh and down to 1-2 reps between rests by the end.
Interested to hear the final number and what gives out first, arms or core or something silly like toes
And my elbow tendons are beat heading into this so that pretty much answers the question on if I should even try any of those. Might someday but not this weekend. If you're close enough, you should join us!
I write a substack newsletter about fintech and financial services called the fintech explorer: https://fintechexplorer.substack.com/. Check it out and let me know what you think!
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