# how many jumping jacks can you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984 "2017-09-22T17:12:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/1 "2017-09-22T17:12:57Z")
don’t guess, OK, actually count. I’m going to say 50 even though I get short of breath by 30 some and I could, of course, do a few more if you offered me money. so I mean how many with good form and not killing yourself. I googled this question earlier this week and some folks were saying 2000 :eek: but I don’t know if they meant all at once. because eek! ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/2 "2017-09-22T18:02:03Z")
I was very tempted to try this. Then I realized I would probably just hurt myself because I wouldn’t stop when I should. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/3 "2017-09-22T18:58:44Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > I was very tempted to try this. Then I realized I would probably just hurt myself because I wouldn’t stop when I should. keep in mind there are risks to sitting still 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/4 "2017-09-22T19:33:54Z")
Oh I’m not sedentary. Just had bad experiences seeing how many of an exercise I can do. For example, the time I ruined my shoulder doing something like this with burpees. Wasn’t even that many. Totally not worth it. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/5 "2017-09-22T20:14:15Z")
I have no idea, but I’m certain I’d get bored before I got too tired to do another. 2000 doesn’t sound out of line to me. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/6 "2017-09-22T21:34:57Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > I have no idea, but I’m certain I’d get bored before I got too tired to do another. 2000 doesn’t sound out of line to me. Ditto for me. I’d rather go bicycling. I can bike for hours; never get bored with it. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/7 "2017-09-22T22:00:15Z")
I can do all of them. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/8 "2017-09-22T22:07:39Z")
oh, sweet mother, I couldn’t even do one burpee. you tried a burpee? are you 28? > [@](#): > > Ditto for me. I’d rather go bicycling. I can bike for hours; never get bored with it. what you want is the “how long can you bicycle thread” :mad: > [@](#): > > I can do all of them. I am putting down zero for you! y’all are very bad at this. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/9 "2017-09-22T22:20:33Z")
0 is close enough to all, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/10 "2017-09-22T23:01:12Z")
At home, or sea level? ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/11 "2017-09-23T00:14:53Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > oh, sweet mother, I couldn’t even do one burpee. you tried a burpee? are you 28? I was 40 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/12 "2017-09-23T01:58:53Z")
My guess would be at least several hundred. Two thousand doesn’t sound terribly crazy to me, but I’m a little out-of-shape at the moment. I can’t find the current world record, but I found one guy in 1979 who did [27,000 in a row.](http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/meet-ashrita-furman-holder-world-records/story?id=12627599) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/13 "2017-09-23T02:23:46Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > I am putting down zero for you! > > y’all are very bad at this. 😛 You can put me down for zero, too. 😃 I don’t think I’ve done a jumping jack since high school gym class, and that was 50 years ago. Well, I could probably do a few if I tried, but I have no inclination to find out.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/14 "2017-09-23T03:17:21Z")
None. My knees didn’t like them before I suffered a torn meniscus last year, and they sure don’t like them any better now. I can do the turned-out ballet version though - eschappe from second to first or second to fourth - with no knee problems, so if I’m in a group class where jumping jacks are called for, I do those instead. I can do at least 20 of those, maybe more. Luckily I only take group workout classes at the small specialty gym where it’s known that I have a bad knee and have many years of ballet under my belt, so that kind of expect that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/15 "2017-09-23T07:20:31Z")
1. I don’t jump, bad ankles. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/16 "2017-09-23T12:36:47Z")
> [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](#): > > None. My knees didn’t like them before I suffered a torn meniscus last year, and they sure don’t like them any better now. > > I can do the turned-out ballet version though - eschappe from second to first or second to fourth - with no knee problems, so if I’m in a group class where jumping jacks are called for, I do those instead. I can do at least 20 of those, maybe more. Luckily I only take group workout classes at the small specialty gym where it’s known that I have a bad knee and have many years of ballet under my belt, so that kind of expect that. 😉 ballet exercises are so hard!!! - I have a season of Miranda Esmonde-White’s workouts and they kick my butt. and I have a lot of arthritis in my knees so I am doing the jumping jacks as well as most cardio on a rebounder/mini trampoline. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/17 "2017-09-23T12:40:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **MoonMoon** : > > I have no idea, but I’m certain I’d get bored before I got too tired to do another. 2000 doesn’t sound out of line to me. I’m completely certain that I’d get bored before I got tired, because the number at which I would get bored is awfully close to zero. I’ve never been a fan of exercise for its own sake: I do things for other reasons, and some of those things I do happen to be exercise, but that’s not why I do them. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/18 "2017-09-23T13:01:55Z")
One. Two if the floor isn’t too unforgiving. After that, my knees and back will be Very Very Angry with me. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/19 "2017-09-23T13:44:26Z")
I do 50 a day as part of my regular workout. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984/20 "2017-09-23T13:58:26Z")
I can’t even remember the last time I did one. Best estimate is that I could do more if I bound my chestal protrusions, since that bouncing is quite painful, but I couldn’t even guess how many before I collapsed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jumping-jacks-can-you-do/796984.md?page=2)