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Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:04 am

when you are 6'+ pushups become a bitch, I like this, bookmarked for a summer project

germloucks · Post by **germloucks** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:27 am

Im 5'11". And dont go blaming your poor physical fitness on height ;P

Mastametz · Post by **Mastametz** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:29 am

The taller you are, the more difficult EVERY workout becomes; Longer arms means you have to do a push-up over a larger distance, not to mention with increased weight on those arms, and also more work for your abs to stabilize a longer body.

But alas, my poor physical fitness is due to me sitting on my ass all day long.

Youngmoose · Post by **Youngmoose** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:07 am

Mastametz wrote:QUOTE (Mastametz @ Apr 19 2011, 10:29 PM) The taller you are, the more difficult EVERY workout becomes; Longer arms means you have to do a push-up over a larger distance, not to mention with increased weight on those arms, and also more work for your abs to stabilize a longer body.

But alas, my poor physical fitness is due to me sitting on my ass all day long.

+1

I'm 6'2", push ups and sit ups are the bane of my existence, but they are the best thing to improve my softball swing. I also sit on my ass most of the day. Sigh.

CronoDroid · Post by **CronoDroid** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:15 am

I'm in Category 4 but I'm pretty light, only around 130 at 5'10. It was getting really hard above 30 push ups though, only made it to 31.

takingarms1 · Post by **takingarms1** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:25 pm

germloucks wrote:QUOTE (germloucks @ Apr 19 2011, 06:03 PM) Running is where i fail bad, my average 1.5 mile run sits around the 10:45-11:15 range.

That's almost 7 minute miles, which really is not bad at all. My fastest mile was in high school when I was really fit and was like 6:33. These days I'm happy I can run a 5k in under 25 mins

Icky · Post by **Icky** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:38 pm

TakingArms wrote:QUOTE (TakingArms @ Apr 20 2011, 01:25 PM) That's almost 7 minute miles, which really is not bad at all. My fastest mile was in high school when I was really fit and was like 6:33. These days I'm happy I can run a 5k in under 25 mins

I think standards are different for active duty military personnel...

djrbk · Post by **djrbk** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:57 pm

Re: cardio I'm just happy if I can do a half marathon in under 2 hours, marathon under 4:30 :S

at 6'2" 200lbs as well I agree with the math above. More weight to push a longer distance up. Push ups don't scale well with size, as with chinups/pull ups. Gravity is fighting against large-folk. Its a reversal for things like rucksack marches and BFTs (quarter marathon with something like 60lbs weight) and the what-not which as you get larger the weight is a lesser percentage of your body mass/less of a march in total due to a longer stride.

Week 1 Day 2 of the 100 pushups program starting up tonight after my martial arts AND NEW 300% POPULATED BY WOMEN YOGA CLASSES.

Mastametz · Post by **Mastametz** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:04 pm

djrbk wrote:QUOTE (djrbk @ Apr 20 2011, 10:57 AM) at 6'2" 200lbs as well I agree with the math above.

I'm 6'1" 225. Pushups are hard, yo.

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:23 pm

at 6'3" and 200lbs the easiest workouts for me involve moving things rather than my body. I did yoga for a while and I would be sweating and exhausted while all the girls were barely even working up a sweat.

main area of muscle is my legs, they are like giant trunks of power.