Am I a defector?
Road Master
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Political correctness is at work here. When I was a recruit back in '72 I was dropped for 50 push ups. When I was Drill Sergeant ten years later, we were told we had to be fair to both male and female recruits. So the max was 20 push ups for either sex. However the female recruits had too much trouble doing 20 push ups. So the max push ups was dropped to ten push up for both sexes in '83.
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Not trying to call you out, but I guess this is just one of those things I'd almost have to see to believe. I'll give the benefit however, and if you tell me you were going from 90 degrees to elbows locked out almost 2 times per second for 1:45 straight, I'll take your word on it and give props. I remember having some graders that would just flat refuse to count the rep if you were going so fast that they couldn't tell if you were locking out at the top or not.
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When I went for my post record in push ups, there were from memory, no less than 4 graders and a videographer. This wasn't a PT Test. It was what was know as our annual post "Olympics".
During a PT Test, the max push ups needed for 100 points (perfect score) in two minutes was about 80 for the youngest age bracket. The older you were the less push ups were needed for a score of 100 in a age bracket.
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BTW, my nuns in Catholic elementary school would drop boys for 50 push ups at a time. Needless to say, I wasn't a star pupil, but boy can I knock out push ups
My elementary school nuns made my Army Basic Training Drill Sergeants look compassionate.
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I don't mind being called out, as one posted. I've had graders/aholes that refused to grade very fast push ups. I always requested that another soldier have his hand placed under my chest and the grader can keep his eyes on the back of my elbows. If they questioned my form.
When I went for my post record in push ups, there were from memory, no less than 4 graders and a videographer. This wasn't a PT Test. It was what was know as our annual post "Olympics".
During a PT Test, the max push ups needed for 100 points (perfect score) in two minutes was about 80 for the youngest age bracket. The older you were the less push ups were needed for a score of 100 in a age bracket.
When I went for my post record in push ups, there were from memory, no less than 4 graders and a videographer. This wasn't a PT Test. It was what was know as our annual post "Olympics".
During a PT Test, the max push ups needed for 100 points (perfect score) in two minutes was about 80 for the youngest age bracket. The older you were the less push ups were needed for a score of 100 in a age bracket.
http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups.html interestingly, the folks over at Guinness don't have a two minute record and won't accept more than 138 pushups for the one minute attempt.
Road Warrior
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Here is a current list of world record attempts. you are certainly up in that category.
http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups.html interestingly, the folks over at Guinness don't have a two minute record and won't accept more than 138 pushups for the one minute attempt.
http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/pushups.html interestingly, the folks over at Guinness don't have a two minute record and won't accept more than 138 pushups for the one minute attempt.
That being said, even in my prime, I wasn't capable of matching or exceeding 138 push ups in one minute. So I guess I wasn't that fast after all.
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I competed in those military push up contests till 1984. In 1 minute of a 2 minute time limit, I remembered doing 110 push ups. I beat that amount a few weeks later, but I don't remember the exact number. It was between 120-124 push ups in first minute of a two minute time limit.
That being said, even in my prime, I wasn't capable of matching or exceeding 138 push ups in one minute. So I guess I wasn't that fast after all.
That being said, even in my prime, I wasn't capable of matching or exceeding 138 push ups in one minute. So I guess I wasn't that fast after all.
Even on my best day I was never capable of more than a buck twenty five in the allotted two minutes. On more than several occasions I even had graders arguing over my scoring. I would have the grader not score some of my reps for not 'breaking the plane' while the guy with his hand under my chest I was hitting said they were good.
Something with my long arms or my chest made it look like I was not all the way down even with my chest physically bouncing off the ground.
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