100 push-ups, 50 pull-ups challenge

I read it, but pretty sure it was like 100 push-ups and 50 pull-ups.

EDIT: Confirmend it, numbers as I quoted to be done in 10 minutes. Maybe they offer an abbreviated version in the body of the article (?)

2nd EDIT: OK, I see you corrected your post.

Since we were talking about this the other day, I gave the push-ups a go. Just straight out how many I could do without stopping. I hit 50.

I do pull-ups all the time and no way and I getting much more than a dozen.

My PR for 1 set of pushups is well over 100, they are not hard to do at all.

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.

Yeah, I agree. I watched the video of these two guys on pull-ups and thought... no rep! no rep! no rep! My best pull-ups in the past ten years was 7, but that was after I trained for them for about three months.

I might try a pull-up tomorrow. I think I can do two chin-ups. Apparently, it doesn't matter whether you do a chin-up or a pull-up, but to me, chin-ups are easier.

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.

You are probably my favorite poster, and you are exactly right. RFK is certainly in great shape but his the pushup and pullup form is pathetic, as is most if not all of the people that do these types of challenges.

one thing I’m not sure about is the form of people who say they can complete this. I’d guess many are fine.

I've always been big on strict form.

When I was 20-25, and probably a little longer, I’d do 3x50 pushups with 60-120 sec between sets. Every once in a while, I’d struggle with the last set.

Never did more than 10 pull-ups in a set, though, so (if rested) I might’ve gotten 100 good pushups in 2 minutes or so and 50 pull-ups in another 7-8, 8-9? FWIW, I think my mile time was around 5:05-5:15 when I could do that.

Hardly any of the world can do 50 strict pull ups in 5 minutes. Thats really hard.

I've trained -and train- martial arts for like... forever.

Barely no one -it's really close to zero people before technique correction- does push-ups with proper form.

If you do -and even being a bodyweight/relative strength exercise- you have needed to develop just a bit of muscle.

That makes the pull-ups harder.

TL;DR Done properly, it's achievable by very, very, very few people. I could not, for sure.

I also suspect I could do it in 10. My pull-up max is around 12-13 as well, but I would do sets of maybe 8 instead of 10. The last few reps of a max set are really taxing, and research shows the last ~5 are "effective reps," so I want to stay away from those.

The muscles involved didn't evolve to oppose gravity with the full body weight for very long. It's that simple.

Pushups are only 64% body weight, and the muscles involved at least indirectly oppose gravity pretty often.

both of them were kipping. just do pullups with good form. these cross fit posers are f$cking morons

100 pushups and 50 pull ups for those training upper body weight should be something like 5x (20 pushups, 10 pull ups, 5 mins rest). Doing more than 15 pullups / 30 pushups in a single set is just kinda dumb imo, especially if you haven't already strengthened your back and shoulders with different grip variations. At that point you should wear a backpack on the front of your chest or a dip belt to add weight and do incline pushups.

I did this 2x today (well technically 150 so 1.5x on the pushups) and yesterday in about in hour before run club to get a good pump going. I usually go back to back days and then take 2 days off.

I probably could do the challenge with good form in maybe 15 minutes with proper form if a crush was there to motivate me.

I wouldn't feel super safe with anything less than 2 mins of rest between sets.

Yeah, very few people could do this. The push-ups would be more achievable, for sure, but I would need to take a break. I can probably do 45-50, max, with strict form. After that my form would go to sh!t.

When I read this it got me thinking about doing pull-ups in grade school gym class. I could crank them out as could a lot of kids. Once I got older I couldn’t reach the same numbers. I assume that the extra weight is the biggest factor and that is greater than the amount of strength gained.

This is a stupid challenge. It’s a recipe for people hurting themselves. This sort of thing should be eased into anyway.

These challenges are usually fairly attainable. 50 pull ups in 5 is like saying "take the 26.2 miles in 2:20 CHALLENGE"! Nearly everyone except exceptional cross fitters and pint size strong dudes (gymnasts, wrestlers) would have to train a lifetime for 50 pull ups. People who are strong can do like 10-15 then need 5 min recovery. It sounds like click bait thing.

I've been doing LOTS of pullups recently. I've done a max set of 15 strict, no swinging, dead hang pullups. I think I could maaaybe do 5 every 30 seconds to get 50 in 5 minutes, but it would be extremely tough. If I was allowed to go 1 inch above a dead hang, this would be a walk in the park.

I can do something like 35 very strict pushups right now. Maybe 50 or so if I didn't get so low and moved my hands out a few inches.

With chin-ups, this is pretty easy. Pull-ups are much harder for me. I've been doing 300 pushups a day for a while in sets of 30 or 40. Push-ups train really quickly. You don't keep getting much stronger, but you rapidly get a LOT better at doing push-ups. I don't know why. I guess it is really an endurance exercise.