[fordgtlover]

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Originally Posted by lord_tris /img/forum/go_quote.gif ... and for my days off i ride my bike about 10miles in about 50ish mins in the hardest gear posse

How are your knees? Apparently this is the single biggest cause of knee injuries in cyclists - pushing too high gears

 

[Kees]

I used to take bets that I can do between two and three hundred push-ups in five minutes without even breaking a sweat.
I always won.
I still can, but now I sweat a little.

Luckily it takes only three push-ups to win that bet.

 

[krmathis]

Maybe 5, or 10 on a good day...

 

[epaludo]

I think i can handle from 30-40. No more than that for sure ...

 

[beerguy0]

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Originally Posted by lord_tris /img/forum/go_quote.gif for my army PT test i do about 70-75 push ups in two mins with no breaks I do about 75-80 sit-ups in two mins and i run about a 14:3ish two mile and for my days off i ride my bike about 10miles in about 50ish mins in the hardest gear posse

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Originally Posted by fordgtlover /img/forum/go_quote.gif How are your knees? Apparently this is the single biggest cause of knee injuries in cyclists - pushing too high gears

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I used to do a lot of miles, and the most important thing is not the gear you push, but the cadence. If you can maintain 90-100 rpm, you should be OK. If you're much below 90, the gear is too big. I know that riding off-road is tough on my knees, mainly because of the low rpm climbing. On the road, where I can keep a good cadence, my knees are fine.

 

[wakeride74]

Damn I need to start working out again!

As far as perfect builds go I think Ryan Reynolds (Amityville remake, Waiting, Van Wilder) is about the size I'd want to be... muscular, very toned but not trying to hulk out or anything.

 

[lord_tris]

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Originally Posted by fordgtlover /img/forum/go_quote.gif How are your knees? Apparently this is the single biggest cause of knee injuries in cyclists - pushing too high gears

My knees are fine its my rib that hurt this morning and i was just on flat land anyway. (broke my rib about 7weeks ago)

 

[Contrastique]

Poeh, like 5, if I push myself to the limit that means...
I do a lot of weightlifting though...like glasses of wine lifting towards my mouth. Don't take this lightly, after a while you can really feel it working

.
But on a serious sidenote, it wouldn't be bad if I would start doing stuff like that. I run a lot of stairs each day but that's about it for me.
Oh and don't know about you guys, but when I look at that pic from Arnold, it always makes me wonder what on earth is hanging in the middle..misproportioned...

 

[milkpowder]

^^ LOL! That's one bit he forgot to train

Anyway, where's the poll?

 

[FallenAngel]

I do pushups on my knuckles (Systema training), usually between 60 and 70 with no breaks. On a bad day, it would be around 50 (I remember because I did 49 on the beach a few weeks ago and fell, but that was after swimming).

My favorite exercise (which I start every workout with) starts by standing minutes on the knuckles in a pushup position for 5 minutes. Then 5 slow pushups - 30 seconds on the way down, 30 seconds on the way up. After that, I try to do about 30 pushups which is usually very hard by the end as the body is already very tired from the strain. Lots of fun

 

[ken36]

Arnold did OK for himself, didn't he?

 

[appophylite]

I can put in about 20-25 in 1 minute without breaks, and if I'm having a good day, 100-120 in 5 minutes sans break. I had a 5th grade teacher who used to be a volunteer fireman and instead of giving us detentions or warnings or time-outs, we got push-ups-->the more severe your punishment was meant to be, the more push-ups. Sometimes, he doled out push-ups just because he felt like it, but after 3 months in class, you got used to them and knew the difference. I think I ended up doing well over 3000 push-ups that year, and I was one of the better behaved kids.

 

[pne]

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Originally Posted by EnOYiN /img/forum/go_quote.gif I can do about a 100 in one time. So I figured that that was quite a lot so I searched for the world record a few years back. Let's just say that I won't ever be able to break it. World Record Push-up.

one of the holders of a lot of the records on there, Doug Pruden, is a local guy. He goes around on the street collecting money for doing pushups..

 

[virometal]

I was at Adam's casa the other day. We were just pal'n 'round, and he busted out 200, with his feet on a stack of dictionaries, in five minutes. Mr. California is a legend in my mind. Said demonstration did nothing to refute that.

 

[gaijin]

Please organize a push up contest at the next head-fi meet.