1000 pushups in 24hrs (from Apathy's prop bet)

J.Brown · #1 07-24-2007, 10:29 PM

anyone want to do this tommorrow for fun or as a prop?

i think i am going to do it regardless just for funsies, but it might help a bunch if someone will do it with me and then we can discuss the strategy/soreness on thursday.

cheers. J.

Thremp · #2 07-24-2007, 10:40 PM

I don't think I could do this, maybe if I just bent my arms 90 degrees or something. Sounds horrid [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Rootabager · #3 07-24-2007, 10:46 PM

Did he win this? or has it gone down. I heard about it along time ago and thought i could do it easy, but i hear apathy is in bad shape.

I forgot about it and wonder if he could. I said no.

Subfallen · #4 07-24-2007, 10:49 PM

This will be insanely easy if you are good at pushups. Just do 80 tabata-style on the hour every hour from 8:00AM to 9:00PM.

You will spend ~50 minutes total doing the pushups at a rate of ~3s per pushup.

Thremp · #5 07-24-2007, 10:50 PM

I did this with sit-ups. After a while... you just go numb.

Subfallen · #6 07-24-2007, 10:52 PM

Hmm...well I will try it with you J. Brown. Though I will probably start at 11:00 AM or so.

Rootabager · #7 07-24-2007, 10:54 PM

this is even easier than you think. it's over 24 hours. So he can do them, go to sleep, then wake up and do them again.

Subfallen · #8 07-24-2007, 10:57 PM

Yeah, I can't imagine failing using the full 24 hrs...tho to be fair I used to [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] pushups and at one point did 200 in < 5 mins.

thirddan · #9 07-24-2007, 10:57 PM

was talking to my roommate about this the other day...i think its doable one day...but doing it like 3 days in a row would be insanely tough...

i think by setting limitation on what you can eat/drink and how much sleep you can get would make this more difficult...

J.Brown · #10 07-25-2007, 12:30 AM

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Hmm...well I will try it with you J. Brown. Though I will probably start at 11:00 AM or so.

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cool, i will probably start about the same time and post some updates during the day in this thread, then no updates after 7pm until i get home from poker, so probably 4 am or so, should (hopefully) be done with the push ups by then.

this is just for fun, but as a side note, i will be doing them all (with varied hand positions) very strictly and deep just so i can prove to myself it is doable.

also running a 5k tommorrow as the crossfit wod, which shouldn't hamper things at all, i was worried they were going to prescribe some metcon bench/pullup nightmare and make 1K pushups really miserable.

thanks for doing this with me. J.