how many jumping jacks can you do?

[GrumpyBunny]

@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.

Same here, though I’m not positive how many eschappe I can do, either. When I got up to try, the cats swarmed and it got dangerous to try to jump.

[P-man]

I’m guessing a few hundred wouldn’t be a problem now. I’m pretty sure when I was, say, 30 I could have gone over a thousand.

[Sicks_Ate]

@Bullitt

You’re a Marine, right? Do you remember them being called bends and thrusts? And with two push ups they were called 8-count bends and thrusts. Fun memories.

And, being 6-8, you need higher basement ceilings.

That seems right…

We used 8-count bodybuilder." Sometimes you’d get some sadistic SOB leading PT and called for 12-count ones…

[Dendarii_Dame]

I haven’t done them in years, but I tried just now and had to stop at 52.

[JackieLikesVariety]

@Dendarii_Dame

I haven’t done them in years, but I tried just now and had to stop at 52.

congratulations! one of the few people do to what I asked in my OP: don’t guess, try. are you surprised by your result?

I’m guessing a few hundred wouldn’t be a problem now.

Pman you get a zero for guessing

[Poysyn]

@Bullitt

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Jumping jacks – the military calls them “side straddle hops”, which I always thought was an odd name. I never heard of that term until boot camp, in 1980. And what the hell is a burpee? Had to look that up. It’s a squat thrust. And the drill instructors called that “bends and thrusts.”

I should get out more often.

Burpees differ from Squat Thrusts as there is no weight, and you go chest down in a push up.

Jumping Jacks are dead easy. I never found them hard, just kind of tedious. Burpees, on the other hand…ugh…

[Dinsdale]

Just closed the office door, emptied my pockets and did 50 at work. In dress pants and shoes. Didn’t time it, but couldn’t have taken more than a couple of minutes. Wasn’t a big deal, but if I had kept up that pace for 100 I would have felt it. Posting now, right after, my pulse is barely elevated. I’m sure I could do 200 if I tried to - probably more. And, if I practiced, could quickly get up past 1000. Not a big workout, just some slightly different muscles.

I used to HATE burpees, but I really hate push-ups as well. Recently worked up to sets of 50 push-ups. Still dislike them.

56 yrs old, in relatively decent shape. Regularly bike 26 miles/swim 1/2 mile. Multiple knee/ankle/foot surgeries.

[Dendarii_Dame]

@JackieLikesVariety

congratulations! one of the few people do to what I asked in my OP: don’t guess, try. are you surprised by your result?

Thanks, and yes, I was surprised; thought I’d have to stop before thirty. And I think if I’d pushed I could have made it to sixty.

[Sicks_Ate]

I just did 100 in about a minute and a half. A little breathy and my heart rate is in the aerobic range. Mostly decided to stop because my calves were pretty burn-y. Probably had a few more in me but as I said above, don’t want to get hurt.

[JackieLikesVariety]

I just did 100 in about a minute and a half.

Just closed the office door, emptied my pockets and did 50 at work.

now we are moving!

[kayaker]

@Dinsdale

Just closed the office door, emptied my pockets and did 50 at work. In dress pants and shoes. Didn’t time it, but couldn’t have taken more than a couple of minutes. Wasn’t a big deal, but if I had kept up that pace for 100 I would have felt it. Posting now, right after, my pulse is barely elevated. I’m sure I could do 200 if I tried to - probably more. And, if I practiced, could quickly get up past 1000. Not a big workout, just some slightly different muscles.

When you close the office door, jump around making noise for a few minutes, then reemerge from your office slightly dishelved, perspiring, well that’s how office rumors begin.

[GuanoLad]

I pride myself on regularly going for walks to keep my fitness up. Except through winter that usually slows down. And before that I was very busy for a whole year and didn’t get many chances to get out much. And the weather’s been so unpredictable even in the nice seasons. And other excuses that mean, when I went for a basic 20 minute walk to the local shopping centre last week, I was so completely exhausted I had to sit down twice before walking back home again.

I am so totally out of “shape”* that I’m not going to even attempt jumping jacks.

I hope I can get my fitness back up again over summer, but I am days away from turning 48, I’m no spring chicken anymore, and I may be reaching limits.

*Never actually been in shape, currently just barely this side of pudgy