How many Pounds of Pressure can YOU apply?

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JethroTull

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Hey guys,

This is just a fun little thing I came up with and wondered if anyone has done the same. Don't take this too seriously, but it might be fun to give it a go.

Test your upper body pushing strength using nothing but a bathroom scale.

Place your hands on your scale and push! That's all there is too it. The needle may be a bit wobbly as it's difficult to make it completely steady, but you can still get a pretty accurate number. Step on the scale immediately afterwards to get your bodyweight at the time when you pushed. Record both numbers in this thread. Also, post your max bench to see what kind of correlation there is between benching and scale pushing.

**IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU KEEP YOUR KNEES AND THE TOP OF YOUR FEET FIRMLY PLANTED ON THE GROUND AT ALL TIMES**

Me first:

Lbs of Pressure = 120
Body Weight = 160lbs
Max Bench = 205 for 5 reps, so I'm thinking maybe 210-215 for 1RM?
 
Lol I think he mean on your hands and knees with the scale underneath your hands.

I tried a slightly different method, I did a handstand on the scale.

Lbs of Pressure = 215
Body Weight = 212lbs
 
I guess I need to clarify a little bit...

Directions

1. Put your scale on the ground.
2. Drop to a kneeling position with the top of your feet and your knees planted firmly on the ground.
3. Put both hands on top of the scale and push as hard as you can.
4. Ensure that your knees and feet remain rooted to the ground.

Essentially, it should be done in a kneeling pushup position.

@dcjoey: Haha, doing a handstand on a scale is no different than just standing upright on the scale. It's just going to give you your bodyweight.
 
Derwyddon said:
Pressure: 275
Weight: 158

However, I don't know how accurate this is as it hurts my right knee very considerably to kneel like that, so I might have been able to give a bigger number if that wasn't the case.
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I'm confused. I'm no physicist, but it seems to me it would be impossible to apply more than your bodyweight in this position...otherwise, you'd just be pushing yourself off the ground


unless you're talking about a surge of energy almost like a strike rather than uniformly applying pressure
 
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I balanced the scale on top of my head and it read
2.3 lbs
scale weight is 2.3. lbs

:jump1:
 
it takes 700 lbs to break a cinder block. Been a while but it was a blackbelt test.

But that is a strike not steady pressure.
 
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