I NEVER YELL. I HAVE EYE PROBLEMS (SOON TO BE CORRECTED, I HOPE) THAT CAUSE ME TO TYPE IN CAPS SO I CAN SEE AND PROOF WHAT I AM TYPING. I MAKE MANY ERRORS.
I HAD NO BREAKS OTHER THAN RISING AND SMILING.
(THE SMILE WAS NEVER WIPED OFF MY FACE.)
THE NUMBER OF PUSHUPS IS NOT THE FACTOR HERE, IT’S THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT THAT MATTERS. GRANTED, I DID MINE WITHOUT PAUSE OR REST, IN A SPAN OF MINUTES AND PROBABLY NOT 400,BUT 400 PUSHUPS FOR A TEEN, OR ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER, IS A FORMIDABLE TASK.
HAVE YOU EVER ATTEMPTED IT? IN YOUR PRIME COULD YOU HAVE DONE SO? I’M THINKING NO, AND NO. BUT YOUR ARMCHAIR IS COMFORTABLE, YES? THAT’S WHAT COUNTS.
At the start of covid lock downs, well past my prime, I had a decent number of pushups mixed in with other things in a half-hour morning routine. No where near 400. Otherwise, when I was in the best shape I was either putting in long days of physical labor or working out with weight machines.
The article, once one gets past the headline, becomes unclear whether it was 300 or 400, but seems quite clear that they had an hour.
If the players are used to doing reps of 20, that would be 15-20 reps; if 10, 30-40. Our football players would at times be practicing and/or working out twice a day, and they weren’t short practices. It’s only been a couple months since football season, and I think Texas takes football more seriously than Oregon.
I don’t think I could have done it at any point—but I was on the debate team (which didn’t stop me from pulling on dry-chain as a way to fund my way through university). I would have guessed that, given an hour, the football player could have.
Some of the posters are making at least plausible arguments for the other side. Your experience doesn’t closely enough parallel what was asked in my mind to do so,