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just bet a guy that he could not do that

he took it for 50 im thinking about taking extra action from others

he's in excellent shape... 5 ' 8 " - 185 lbs 12% body fat

typically reps bench at 185 lbs 3 sets of 10

EZ money for me right? im betting he CANNOT do it

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its doable I saw close to it when I was in teh boot camp.

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just buy lottery tickets and post results next time plz

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240 min? little over 4 push up a min? Eeeeee, no I think you take this one down.

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6 hrs i think its close

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he has almost zero chance provided he hasnt been training for something like this specifically.

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he originally offered 3000 in 24 (which i prob would have taken)

then he offered 1000 in 6... which i would have taken

but i countered with 4 (why not?) and he took it

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he originally offered 3000 in 24 (which i prob would have taken)

then he offered 1000 in 6... which i would have taken

but i countered with 4 (why not?) and he took it

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honestly, the more i think this over in my head, even at 6 hrs you take it. as BigAl said, he has not trained for this specifically. he is going to be dying by 3rd hour

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are you gonna be there to make sure that he's doing actual pushups and not girl pushups?

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I guess it's all about the cumulative effect and how fatigued he gets. I'm not in good shape at all and I can do 40 push-ups in probably well less than 2 minutes. This guy ought to be able to do a set of 100 in under 5 minutes (average - the early ones should take less time). If he does 10 sets of 100, that works out to a little over 20 minutes to rest/stretch between sets. That doesn't sound too bad in theory, but it's all about how badly the earlier ones catch up with him by the end.

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absolutely

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when does this commence?

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when does this commence?

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sunday

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does he specifically practice pushups?

i was in his type of shape, but bench really doesn't relate to pushups as well as you'd think. The only way he does this is if he does them a lot on a regular basis.

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that probably won't help him at all. the strain is so different. you need very little muscle mass for 1000 pushups, but one hell of stamina.

it's like 100m vs. marathon.

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offer them 2:1 and put your bankroll on it. he's screwed. no way he'll do 4+ pushups/hour for 4 hours at 5'8'' 185. try 5'4'' 120 w/ special training.

http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups.html

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assuming he hasn't been training specifically for it.

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WTF
1000 pushups on fists: 18:13 minutes, Doug Pruden (CAN), 9 July 2003 at the Body Quest Health Club Edmonton

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1000 pushups seems easy.

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I'm guessing you are going to lose this. If he was eager to get action from you on this, he probably has it in the bag.

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I'm guessing you are going to lose this. If he was eager to get action from you on this, he probably has it in the bag.

[/ QUOTE ]People tend to overestimate themselves, too. I think this is a pretty good bet with the info we have here.

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he's in excellent shape... 5 ' 8 " - 185 lbs 12% body fat

typically reps bench at 185 lbs 3 sets of 10

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Dude's a girly man, easy money.

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surestimate?

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6 hrs i think its close

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he originally offered 3000 in 24 (which i prob would have taken)

then he offered 1000 in 6... which i would have taken

but i countered with 4 (why not?) and he took it

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3000 in 24hrs is free money.

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he originally offered 3000 in 24 (which i prob would have taken)

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but i countered with 4 (why not?) and he took it

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3000 in 24hrs is free money.

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Yeah really. 3k in 24 hours is literally free money for you.

1k in 4 hours MIGHT be possible.

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185 lbs at 5'8" is like really big for someone who is not morbidly obese or a NFL running back, it seems likely that his muscle mass far outstrips his stamina and this seems like an easy win for you...

however there is an issue here that everyone has so far ignored, it is my understanding that steroids and hgh have profound effects on muscle stamina and recovery; and as far as i know there is no prop bet athletic commission that tests for illegal supplements, if the guy you are betting against is confident that he can do this he may have a good reason for it

before the attempt is made you may want to bluff him with the threat of steroid testing and claim that positive results would void the bet in order to gauge his reaction, if the stakes of the bet are high enough you definitely want to lay the groundwork for an actual test being grounds for disqualification should he complete the 1k pushups

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If that 185 was muscle mass he wouldn't be benching so little. OP stated it's not fat so this guy might be just, big-boned? I stand by my post, easy money.

Plus good point about the doping.

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not gonna happen, easy money

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1000 push ups is very hard to do in such a short amount of time. For some reason I think 3000 in 24 might be a better bet since it's more demanding psychologically.

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Many people take the gallon of milk challenge with huge confidence too. Doesn't mean they have any idea of what they can actually handle.

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I nearly completed the gallon of whole milk in an hour challenge. Less than 1 cup away with 5 minutes to go.

Re: the 1000 push up challenge. I think it can be done. I'd bet that I could do it. Back when I used to not work on Sundays, I'd make myself do 2 push ups and 2 sits up for every minute of football that I watched. In 4 hours that would come to 480 pushups and sit ups. It was a work out, sure, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't so fatigued that I couldn't have done double that number and then 40 more to get to 1000.

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1000 isn't that crazy. Given his height/weight/benchstats I'd take him up on the bet here, but it's not as improbable as you might think.

5'10" // 185 // 8% bodyfat // 330 1RM // 185 x 18-20

I'd take myself laying 2:1.

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185 lbs at 5'8" is like really big for someone who is not morbidly obese or a NFL running back, it seems likely that his muscle mass far outstrips his stamina and this seems like an easy win for you...

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If that 185 was muscle mass he wouldn't be benching so little. OP stated it's not fat so this guy might be just, big-boned? I stand by my post, easy money.

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i'm a little under 5'10, about a year ago i weighed 185 and benched 185. I have broad shoulders and look stronger than I am, and I don't look fat/am not fat. 185 was definitely pushing it though.

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I'm guessing you are going to lose this. If he was eager to get action from you on this, he probably has it in the bag.

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Many people take the gallon of milk challenge with huge confidence too. Doesn't mean they have any idea of what they can actually handle.

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Yeah, but those people don't usually offer the prop, they accept it. This whole thing started with the guy coming in and saying "hey, I bet you $50 I can do 4k push ups in a day" and negotiating from there, very strange.

Maybe I am just cynical, but when I left home to be a degen, my father took me aside and said "son, I'm sorry I can't stake you to a proper bankroll, but instead let me give you some advice. One day in your travels you will meet a man who will show you a brand new deck of cards upon which the seal has not been broken. This man will offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But you will not take this bet son, because as sure as you are standing there you will end up with an ear full of cider."

At any rate, Guys and Dolls aside, I am much more leery of prop bets people offer me than of prop bets I offer them.

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I agree but not with physical bets with muscle heads. Easy money for karak imo.

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I'll weigh in here...I've made a similar bet and thought I had it. Me and my buddy bet $50 each, that our semi big 190lb 5'8 friend couldn't do a thousand pushups in 1 hr, right after he did a big chest workout...I lost. He's a freak though and can bench 315 over 15 times so his bodyweight even when he was exhausted wasn't to hard for him. He was a pollack and bought vodka with the cash after and got wasted lol. The moral, it is doable just depends on the person....4 hrs should be nothing.

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Why couldn't you finish? Just pain in your stomach?

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I'm curious what the ideal ratio of sets/reps would be for this. E.g., why would he be more likely to finish 10 sets of 100 with a 20 minute break between sets than 100 sets of 10 with 2 minute break between sets (or vice-versa).

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um 4 pushups a minute is a joke. But for someone who weighs 185, it *might* be difficult. 1000 in two hour would actually require *some* training, but not a lot. 1000 in one hour would require a lot more training, but definitely not super difficult by any standard.