bouv, thats physically impossible the way you described it. If you’re standing on one foot, and your knee and foot are on the ground there is no leverage to lift yourself up. You might as well challenge me to lay flat on my stomach with my fingers laced behind my neck and say start doing push-ups.
The foot and knee of the other leg, Omniscient.
Huh?
If the knees are aligned then they’ll both touch the ground at the same time, either way you’re putting your weight over your knee, and not over your foot. In that arrangement you simply cannot apply any leverage to the floor.
Only when you’re standing straight up are your knees aligned. As you bend down, your knees become unaligned. Your off-knee almost touches the ground, but the knee of the leg supporting you doesn’t.
… that’s the same line that has be confused.
Think think think…
Those leg ups (?) are impossible! I need a crutch…
I can never do pushups without laughing, and it’s almost impossible to do pushups while laughing…
I would try these harder ones, but I’m afraid if I even move one inch out of this chair, my younger brother will barrel into the room and steal the computer.
Sometime in my misspent youth, I took (briefly) a MA class in which we did “judo pushups”. These were a factor in my abandonment of the class. I have a little more sticktoitiveness now, but they still suck.
Start with the “A” position, except with feet spread about 1.5 times shoulder width, and a little further back (a short, fat “A”–how appropriate). Mentally mark the finger diamond Punoq mentioned. Now, touch your nose to the middle of the diamond. As you raise your head, lower your chest to ~1 inch from the floor. Repeat the sequence with your stomach, then hips, then knees. The whole movement should look like a ripple running from your head to your feet; only your hands, feet, and nose should ever touch the floor. Upon return to the “A”–congratulations, you’ve done one! I just did 10, and it confirmed my childish impression that they must be bad for you; if someone else wants to try them…well, I take no responsibility, but I can maybe refer you to a chiropractor afterwards.
Ouch! We do those too!
Have you ever done a 4-man push-up? Better not be the last person up or you’re doomed… :eek:
::sits munching on some carrots watching all the fools trying to do the crazy push-ups::
well okay i’ll give it a shot gets down on the floor aand assumes the position
::bursts in to laughter after 5 falling flat on his face::
woops that didn’t go to well i’m with you from now on welfy
-PurePhreak
owwwwwwwwww ahhhhhhhhhh
the pain the agony look what you’ve done to me christ i can’t laugh sit up or use my abdomen at all and i only did 5 WARNING:to all that come after me it hurts a lot don’t do it i only did 5 and now just don’t spare yourself of course i’m not in the best shape but i can handle some push-ups and these are no average push-ups my friends
I hate push-ups! I’ll do abs all day long, but I hate push-ups.
Even moreso, I hate 8 count squat thrusts! Especially at the end of a long workout.
Did I mention how much I hate pull-ups?
A while back I took a JJ class. Part of the workout involved pushups. We were supposed to do 10-12 of them. But they had different types of ascending difficulty. The easiest were women’s knee push-ups. Then you would do with hands spread apart, on one foot, diamond, … The deal was you were supposed to do the hardest style you could, and do 10. If you did 12, you had to do the next hardest style. I seem to recall they said they could propose a style as hard as you needed to prevent you from doing 12, but I may misremember. (It was a long time ago, and we certainly did not have any studs of iampunha’s caliber in class).
I have no idea what the most difficult form was because I was nowhere near it.
Did I mention that I hate push-ups, and have no intention of trying any of the types you mentioned?