What's harder?

[Lumberg]

Push ups or bare barbell (45#) bench presses?

 

[spatts]

 

[kingc_79]

push ups...i can rep an empty bar way more times than i can do a push up

 

[c3ntrifug3]

I think Push-ups are around of your body weight so unless you weigh 64 pounds or less...bar is going to be easier

 

[revexrevex]

ITt is 65 - 80 depending on distribution of mass, or atleast thats what my physics book said

 

[sinjinsmythe33]

when you do a conventional push up some of your bodyweight is supported by your feet. read somehere that you are only pushing %50 to %60 of bodyweight. cadence, length of your arms, hand and foot placement would affect it i suppose. then again, look at herschel walker!! bands would make push ups more challenging.

 

[Liftbig]

lol, pushups by far. i hate those damn things.

 

[Lumberg]

Ok so a puch up is basically liek bench pressing 65 percent of your bodyweight

so unless you weigh 45/.65 70 lbs the bar is going to be easier.

 

[Liftbig]

umm....yes.

 

[Lumberg]

but it is possible that you are just so good at puch ups....or have some kind of mechanical advantage....that the bar actually feels heavier?

 

[Exodus]

no............. i dont see how thats possible. the pushup is so much more awkard than a bench press.

X

 

[WalkingBeast]

I could probably press the bar a thousand times it seems but push-ups maybe 60 at a time much harder and Im only a buck eighty five

 

[Lumberg]

Haha I totally fooled you guys!

You thought I was serious!

Nobody could be that stupid!