Comments on: How Much Does a Pushup Weigh?

By: Fanstanding

Fanstanding — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:57:25 +0000

Since the posting of this question a couple of studies have been conducted on this topic to include the percentage of bodyweight supported during the incline and decline pushup positions. As a way to add constructive value to this discussion, I have written on the topic, posted video demonstrations, and provided the references for further investigation.

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By: The Smart Alec

The Smart Alec — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:54:35 +0000

Just to point out the apparently not so obvious, the planche and other ‘handstand’ pushups etc. are not actually 100% of your body weight. Why? Because you are not pressing your hands, they remain firmly on the floor, and also you aren’t pressing your forearms. So while the Planche and Handstand push ups are the hardest body weight push up (and they are bloody hard!) you are actually pushing probably ~95%

By: John Smith

John Smith — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:16:02 +0000

the equivalent of a bench press of the pushup is the planche pushup. 100% body weight pushup.

By: John Smith

John Smith — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:14:58 +0000

Why would you want to do a silly thing such as the 100 pushup challenge? Once you’re able to do 50 pushups, they’re not making you any stronger, sure it’s good for endurance, but you should utilize most of your time towards body weight strength training. How do you get stronger when the weight stays the same? That’s easy. When you decrease the leverage, you increase the resistance of an exercise. For example, the regular pushup. How do you make it more difficult? Put your hands as close to your hips as possible without falling forward. In a regular pushup, you only support only about 65% of your body weight. When you put it closer to your hips, your arms now support more weight, maybe about 75% now. People should strive for doing a 100% body weight pushup aka planche pushup. How do you get that last 25%? There are numerous tutorials that describe the exercises required to achieve such a seemingly impossible pushup. That’s what people should work towards.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:35:46 +0000

I was really hoping to find it was like 3 or 4 times your body weight. Guess this is one good thing about being a little over weight though – more to push up.

By: nahh

nahh — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:48:01 +0000

all of you guys have your points and combining them, i came up with…..some of yo guys will be making perfect sense until you say, “yea so when i do a push-up i BENCH…” its exactly your retard mistake, its a PUSHUP…not a BENCH PRESS. you cant switch from one to the other, they are the equivalent of saying a calf press is the same as a squat. but if you really wanted the best estimate around where how much you “bench” when doing a push-up, you’d have to weigh your pushup, weigh your bench and find the right percentage displacement from one to the other. id say around 48 percent, but since you are using more muscles its hard to find an equality between benches and pushed ups.

By: Sinx

Sinx — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:29:16 +0000

I’d like to believe that a pushup is 65% because that would mean that at 82.5kg bodyweight and with a 30kg weight on my back I am doing (82.5 x .65 + 30) = 83.5kg
Hurrah! I can press my own body weight (8 times!)
However since the most I have ever done is 75kg in the bench I would have to say it is nearer 45-50% which would mean I am pressing the equivalent of about 68kg which actually feels far more realistic to me.
Hope this helps anyone interested in the matter.

By: kaneda26

kaneda26 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:41:50 +0000

when you talk about weight, you are really talking about the force that you and the earth exert against each other due to gravity. But this force is the product of mass and acceleration. The faster you push yourself up, the more the push up with ‘weigh’. If you move at a slow, steady speed, the ‘weight’ will approach that of when you are stopped in a pushup position.

By: jake3988

jake3988 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:59:44 +0000

This is why, in order to have the best pushups is to go down as far as possible.

Also, it’s why putting your legs up higher than your hands (I do it on a chair) makes them much more difficult. You push up much more weight. Until, eventually, you’re straight up and down handstand-style and you’re pushing 100% of your weight.

By: Personal Trainer

Personal Trainer — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:46:19 +0000

I never actually measured this. If you don’t know, the Nintendo Wii fit works by using this principle.