Most guys in my box would be able to complete this in reasonable time. Even the chicks here can do it (with band/knees). But we’re an incredibly buff and ripped box so there is that’s.
I bet zero runners could do it.
I could when I was running and easily. I’m old now and barely run but I’ll do it again and post a video.
I tried it today and finished the 50/100 in 8:02. The problem is doing 150 reps of anything correctly in 300 seconds is very tough.
I did the pull ups in sets of 15/15/10/10 and agter each pullup set I did 25 pushups. I think that was optimal for me. Killed my shoulders though. They were blown up.
Is it weird as a 46 year old well adjusted normal adult that I'm tempted to actually try this one? I do pushups and pullups as part of my regular strength routine, so it's not like this would leave for sore for 3 days. Maybe I'll give it a shot this week and report back. I've got full confidence doing it in 10 minutes, just how fast would be the big question. And maybe "fast" is like 8 minutes. But it's doable.
if you're posting on letsrun you're not well-adjusted
this thread has devolved into the typical "use the right form" banter, of which there is none. There's no competitive league that can define a "correct" pushup or pullup, it's just an exercise.
There are advantages and disadvantages to strict form. With pushups, freezing the midsection isolates the upper body, but is less functional. Dead hang in pullups eliminates certain reflexes, but makes others easier to include in the next rep.
It's pointless to argue about because the challenge is idiotic to begin with. The way you do pushups and pullups should depend on what result you want from them. That sets your baseline # of reps to work with.
I’m big into this challenge, but I do it in the format of pull-ups-pushups with no pushups done until you have finished the pull-ups. My personal record is 6:20, but that was with spotless form on both the pull-ups and pushups (chin above bar, arms locked out at bottom, chest to fist height plate on the ground, arms locked out at top.) I suspect I could finish it with perfect form in around 4:30 if I alternated pull-ups and pushups instead of doing them one by one, but my ultimate goal of my training is to be able to do it in 5:00 with perfect form keeping the correct order. For reference, I have done 31 perfect pull-ups in a row, a 151.5 pound weighted chin-up, 245 bench press, 60 chest to ground pushups, all at 155, so this challenge is much harder than you think. The majority of incredible sub-5 times are by people who would finish it in close to 7:00+ if they did it in the correct format and did full ROM.
this thread has devolved into the typical "use the right form" banter, of which there is none. There's no competitive league that can define a "correct" pushup or pullup, it's just an exercise.
There are advantages and disadvantages to strict form. With pushups, freezing the midsection isolates the upper body, but is less functional. Dead hang in pullups eliminates certain reflexes, but makes others easier to include in the next rep.
It's pointless to argue about because the challenge is idiotic to begin with. The way you do pushups and pullups should depend on what result you want from them. That sets your baseline # of reps to work with.
Using strict form, I could complete the challenge in under 10 minutes, but not 5.
The pull-ups would definitely be the toughest part. My pull-up max is 12, so my strategy would be to do sets of 10 to avoid reaching full exhaustion early on. I can recover pretty well in 45-60 seconds, so 5 sets of 10 should be feasible. Even if I’m only getting 8 on the fifth set, I could knock out the remaining reps with one extra set within the 10-minute timeframe.
For the push-ups, it wouldn’t be a problem for me to do 5 sets of 20.
I think you're right that it would be tight for you.
If your pull-up max is 12 (and that probably takes at least 24 seconds real form), you aren't going to be coming back and doing sets of 10 with only 45-60s rest.
Using strict form, I could complete the challenge in under 10 minutes, but not 5.
The pull-ups would definitely be the toughest part. My pull-up max is 12, so my strategy would be to do sets of 10 to avoid reaching full exhaustion early on. I can recover pretty well in 45-60 seconds, so 5 sets of 10 should be feasible. Even if I’m only getting 8 on the fifth set, I could knock out the remaining reps with one extra set within the 10-minute timeframe.
For the push-ups, it wouldn’t be a problem for me to do 5 sets of 20.
I think you're right that it would be tight for you.
If your pull-up max is 12 (and that probably takes at least 24 seconds real form), you aren't going to be coming back and doing sets of 10 with only 45-60s rest.
Thanks for your feedback, but it sounds like you misread what I wrote. My strategy wouldn't be to do my max effort in the first set. It would be to do 10 in that first set and then go from there.
When I said I can recover pretty well in 45-60 seconds, that wasn't a guess. I do it regularly in my training.
this thread has devolved into the typical "use the right form" banter, of which there is none. There's no competitive league that can define a "correct" pushup or pullup, it's just an exercise.
There are advantages and disadvantages to strict form. With pushups, freezing the midsection isolates the upper body, but is less functional. Dead hang in pullups eliminates certain reflexes, but makes others easier to include in the next rep.
It's pointless to argue about because the challenge is idiotic to begin with. The way you do pushups and pullups should depend on what result you want from them. That sets your baseline # of reps to work with.
You've obviously not been in the military.
you're obviously one of those fools who think the military is some kind of fitness expert.
They are bureaucrats who regulate up reams of nonsense. Do it this way, it says right there in the book. Order and uniformity.
this thread has devolved into the typical "use the right form" banter, of which there is none. There's no competitive league that can define a "correct" pushup or pullup, it's just an exercise.
There are advantages and disadvantages to strict form. With pushups, freezing the midsection isolates the upper body, but is less functional. Dead hang in pullups eliminates certain reflexes, but makes others easier to include in the next rep.
It's pointless to argue about because the challenge is idiotic to begin with. The way you do pushups and pullups should depend on what result you want from them. That sets your baseline # of reps to work with.
A push-up is a push-up, the same way a powerlifting deadlift requires a certain technique to be valid.
I've seen regional level boxers train. Yes, "only" regional level. But, keep in mind: boxers. These guys train like psychos.
They do like 500 situps and hundreds of push-ups since they are...15, BEFORE the actual drills. Daily.
Wrestlers and grapplers have ungodly relative strength and sets of pull ups are like brushing their teeth to them.
99% of the population can't complete this challenge.
Pushups would be far easier than the pull-ups. Used to do 5x60 pushups in college and did 113 in two minutes once (took 3rd in an Army pushup contest). In high school used to do 3x(10 pull-ups, 25pushups, and 25 dips) after cross country practice. Don't think I i ever could have handled 50/50 in 5 minutes due to the pullups.
Using strict form, I could complete the challenge in under 10 minutes, but not 5.
The pull-ups would definitely be the toughest part. My pull-up max is 12, so my strategy would be to do sets of 10 to avoid reaching full exhaustion early on. I can recover pretty well in 45-60 seconds, so 5 sets of 10 should be feasible. Even if I’m only getting 8 on the fifth set, I could knock out the remaining reps with one extra set within the 10-minute timeframe.
For the push-ups, it wouldn’t be a problem for me to do 5 sets of 20.
If you only can do 12 pull ups at max its imposible that you get 5 series of 10 pull ups with 45-60" rest. Be real
this thread has devolved into the typical "use the right form" banter, of which there is none. There's no competitive league that can define a "correct" pushup or pullup, it's just an exercise.
There are advantages and disadvantages to strict form. With pushups, freezing the midsection isolates the upper body, but is less functional. Dead hang in pullups eliminates certain reflexes, but makes others easier to include in the next rep.
It's pointless to argue about because the challenge is idiotic to begin with. The way you do pushups and pullups should depend on what result you want from them. That sets your baseline # of reps to work with.
A push-up is a push-up, the same way a powerlifting deadlift requires a certain technique to be valid.
No. Are you illiterate? Main theme of my post went right over your head.
Powerlifting is a professional competitive sport, with rules of competition. Pushups are an exercise. You will not win money, not even a medal, only develop physically in some way as a result.
Competitive standards are there to make sure there can be a comparison between performances. Invariably, this drives "correct" form away from what is actually functional, because simplified movements are far easier to standardize than a complex movement.
You might as well insist "running" means hopping from one foot to the other and coming to a complete stop between hops. No, that's just hops 'n stops. Might be a useful exercise in some way, but the functional activity is running. Pushups and pullups are at best like sprint drills, something that might help but only a complete clown would try to brag about.
A push-up is a push-up, the same way a powerlifting deadlift requires a certain technique to be valid.
No. Are you illiterate? Main theme of my post went right over your head.
Powerlifting is a professional competitive sport, with rules of competition. Pushups are an exercise. You will not win money, not even a medal, only develop physically in some way as a result. (...)
Dude, chill.
I only know what my Muay and boxing trainers count as a push-up and what they don't.
I can always crank out at least 10 pullups on demand, but would not even attempt 50 in 5 minutes. Once you get that first set done, you won't be ready for a meaningful 2nd set until that 5 minutes is just about up. So you'd have to be already capable of 25 or 30 in one set.
Unless you have some kind of midget hercules gymasty body type, that's higher fitness by far than 50 pushups in even 1 minute. There is just no comparison, the pushups are a decorative addition to this pullups challenge.
+1
vanishingly few people could do 50 honest pullups in 5 minutes. the only way to do that is with crossfit-style kipping 'pullups' and add some RFK-style cheating where you don't actually complete the pullup to the bar or the drop to full extension, just bob up and down a bit and call it a rep.
at 65 I can do the 100 pushups in 5 min easily, probably about 20-23 pullups as 11 first set, 6 second, 4, 2, fail.
Beat me. I was just under 8:20. I was on pace for the first 3:30 and then fell apart Hull style. People saying the pushups would be easy need to give it a try.