Author Topic: Pushups! A test of BS! (Read 560 times)

Capt. Pork · « **on:** March 20, 2004, 12:51:22 PM »

I have a friend who's been training for about a year and a half pretty intensely.

Before that year and a half, however, he was a daily pot smoker regular drinker and all around lethargic bucket o' crap.

He's 5'6'' about 150 and now claims to be able to do 70 pushups in a minute. He lives 3000 miles away so I can't prove or disprove his claim in person... Do I call BS on him?

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2004, 12:56:27 PM »

Year and a half of training, with his weight and height - its easily possible.
-SW

Tarmac · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2004, 12:57:47 PM »

If he's been training for that long, then he's probably telling the truth. I did 52 pushups in a minute for a police test with only about 2-3 months of training. A few other guys at the test were pounding out mid 60's.

Nilsen · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2004, 12:59:52 PM »

verymuch depends on how he does his pushups.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2004, 01:05:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen10
verymuch depends on how he does his pushups.

Well, I think he does them pretty legitimately, from what I've seen, but this guy does have a long history of greatly exageratting things in his favor. In highschool he claimed to have driven his dad's stock 1989 peugot at 165 mph and later, claimed to have dated a 6 foot model--although I've never seen him with a girl in our 13 years of knowing each other.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2004, 01:08:26 PM »

Shouldnt be a problem. In highschool I played football and we trained a lot. I was a big defensive lineman and could do about that number of pushups in a minute, but then I could benchpress over 330lbs... Damn I'm weak and outtashape now.

Nilsen · « **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2004, 01:09:42 PM »

1,5 years is alot of time but 70 in one minute sounds like BS to me, and with his history of BS ..

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #7 on:** March 20, 2004, 01:18:16 PM »

A second is a long time. But if the guy has a history of being a BS artitist then I would have to see it myself to believe him.

Nilsen · « **Reply #8 on:** March 20, 2004, 01:41:13 PM »

wonder how long it takes to be a sniper

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #9 on:** March 20, 2004, 01:54:16 PM »

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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
A second is a long time. But if the guy has a history of being a BS artitist then I would have to see it myself to believe him.

Well, about 5 months ago he claimed he could do 100 in two minutes, I bet him 20 bucks he couldn't and he promptly shut his mouth.

A stock 80s peugot 4-door doing 165? Calling that BS would be like calling David Duke white.

Nilsen · « **Reply #10 on:** March 20, 2004, 02:08:44 PM »

and who is David Duke?

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #11 on:** March 20, 2004, 02:19:07 PM »

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and who is David Duke?

He is an KKK racist white supremacist guy who ran for political office in the US congress, thankfully he was deaeated.

However another KKK alumni and racist is currently in the senate, Robert C Byrd, the Democratic senator from west virginia.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #12 on:** March 20, 2004, 02:22:34 PM »

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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
However another KKK alumni and racist is currently in the senate, Robert C Byrd, the Democratic senator from west virginia.

A white supremacist democrat... I love it.

I wonder how many pushups he could do.

Nilsen · « **Reply #13 on:** March 20, 2004, 02:23:26 PM »

oh...one of those idiots. To many of those around. I know one from norway, and he is still playing this game i think.

Sandman · « **Reply #14 on:** March 20, 2004, 03:03:58 PM »

It's possible.

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