jaylectricity: With his boner?

You only need to do one. One is all you need.

jaylectricity: With his boner?

Really he can only do one.

Why is it that every time I see someone claiming to be super awesome at pushups -- they're always half-assing them? Extend those arms, kid.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-impressed-by-feats-of-very-st r ong-little-bo,27131/ (new window)

Under the priest?

Father-of-the-Year behind the camera

Whoa. Watch those core muscles pop when he flexes. Once his baby fat is gone, he's going to have a serious six pack.

Wish I had started earlier. Maybe not THAT early, but earlier.

what was harder was him having to drink all 4 bottles of wine first

Great. Just what the world needs. ANOTHER cocky farking Italian.

Uh, how's that the hard way? It just LOOKS hard. Not to mention it's significantly easier to be stronger with his proportions.

When he starts doing inverted push ups with his feet on the wall and his hands on the bottle tops, THEN I'll be impressed.

Mr Guy: Uh, how's that the hard way? It just LOOKS hard. Not to mention it's significantly easier to be stronger with his proportions.

I'll give you the body weight thing, but it actually would be pretty tough. He's having to stabilize on four narrow, very unsteady surfaces. It doesn't just look hard. It enforces perfect form, no shaking, no shifting of weight, etc.

He didn't go full extension, though. Little slacker.

Did...did he just say I am drunk?

jigger: http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-impressed-by-feats-of-very-st r ong-little-bo,27131/ (new window)

Thanks for that link. I laughed at that.

The narrator gave me the he be ge bes.

Mr Guy: Uh, how's that the hard way? It just LOOKS hard.

I wouldn't call push-ups on bottles "harder". Same force needed, more control. I'd say "more painful"

Mr Guy: When he starts doing inverted push ups with his feet on the wall and his hands on the bottle tops, THEN I'll be impressed.

Different muscle groups. They're not easy, but its a completely different exercise from push-ups. This would be more of a shoulder press, using pectorals primarily for balance.

Comparing that to an push-ups on bottles is comparing an overhead press to a bench press.

StupidFly: Mr Guy: Uh, how's that the hard way? It just LOOKS hard.

I wouldn't call push-ups on bottles "harder". Same force needed, more control. I'd say "more painful".


I'd say that the pain involved influences the difficulty of something. Painless, easy. Painful, difficult.

Mr Guy: Uh, how's that the hard way? It just LOOKS hard. Not to mention it's significantly easier to be stronger with his proportions.

When he starts doing inverted push ups with his feet on the wall and his hands on the bottle tops, THEN I'll be impressed.

How about inverted pushups without the wall? (alas no bottles) Link (new window)

Pffft... that's nothing compared to the world's strongest toddler, Liam Hoekstra! Due to a genetic condition he doesnt even have to work out to be buff! (Yes I know there are serious downsides to that)

The Original "World's Strongest Kid"

Helicopter parents are usually going for doctor or engineer, not carnival sideshow.

I like my pushups like I like my women

Bent over the couch!

Actually I'm a fan of the high foot pushups, with my feet over the edge of my couch so when I hit full extension my body is level

About 50 of those in a group is all I can do (5 sets of 10 reps) before my arms are torched. 100 normals seem much easier

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GET A FULL EXTENSION ON THOSE ARMS, NUMBNUTS!!!!

Exactly what I was thinking!

/as I sit here eating my Wendy's Chili and Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger
//while looking longingly at the Frosty I will have for dessert

He's not balancing on those foot ones he put his big toe inside them I'm sorry this is not a feet at all. His hands are smaller so the surface area of the lip of those bottles are almost taking up his entire palm. This isn't a feat by any stretch, more showing balance but since we only see this clip and not how many times he fell off you really can't say.

The grunts and voice of camera man is very scary.

adamscr: I like my pushups like I like my women

Bent over the couch!

Actually I'm a fan of the high foot pushups, with my feet over the edge of my couch so when I hit full extension my body is level

About 50 of those in a group is all I can do (5 sets of 10 reps) before my arms are torched. 100 normals seem much easier

Don't you have to be somewhere in about 26 minutes?

They might be okay for a kid, but not really the hardest way to do pushups. There are adults with a lot more body-weight that can do one-handed pushups, explosive pushups with a clap or even two, close "grip" pushups, judo pushups, etc. The one I've seen that seems the hardest is the extended pushup where your hands are positioned way in front of your head (I know this uses different muscle groups, but just saying that that is a more impressive feat).

And in terms of stabilizing on the bottles, yeah that is a little tricky but I think most serious push-ups now often use things like rotating grips, using the tips of one foot with other crossed over, etc. to create the need for similar stabilizing.

I think it's cool the kid is doing it, it's a lot better than most kids and many adults, but it isn't really in the amazing category. I also worry a bit about kids being pushed into strength exercise at a young age, but I suppose there are certain kids who are driven to do these things.

Mr Guy: Uh, how's that the hard way? It just LOOKS hard. Not to mention it's significantly easier to be stronger with his proportions.

When he starts doing inverted push ups with his feet on the wall and his hands on the bottle tops, THEN I'll be impressed.

My eleven year old daughter puts her feet on the barre, above her head, and does push-ups. It makes me feel tired and noodle muscled to watch it.

Submitted First With a Better Headline: Mr Guy: Uh, how's that the hard way? It just LOOKS hard. Not to mention it's significantly easier to be stronger with his proportions.

I'll give you the body weight thing, but it actually would be pretty tough. He's having to stabilize on four narrow, very unsteady surfaces. It doesn't just look hard. It enforces perfect form, no shaking, no shifting of weight, etc.

He didn't go full extension, though. Little slacker.

No, scale it up. It'd be like an adult balancing on those old fashion multi-gallon milk jars, or doing push ups on pyramids.

It's definitely no harder than a swiss ball push up. Hell, now I'm tempted to go home and get out three regular wine bottles, and see if as a grown adult it's even particularly difficult to scale up.

StupidFly: Mr Guy: When he starts doing inverted push ups with his feet on the wall and his hands on the bottle tops, THEN I'll be impressed.

Different muscle groups. They're not easy, but its a completely different exercise from push-ups. This would be more of a shoulder press, using pectorals primarily for balance.

Comparing that to an push-ups on bottles is comparing an overhead press to a bench press.


Yeah, I'll give you that, but that's pretty much what it would take for that "balancing" act to be impressive for me. You need the platforms not to be almost as big as you are to impress me... Even the discomfort of pushing on the tops would go away due to the mass involved and the fact the rings he's pushing on are easily as large as the row of his knuckles. It'd like be like me doing a push up on 4x4 blocks sitting on inverted ceramic 5 gallon pots.

i bet i could kick his ass...

I could take him

Until he can do them with no hands, I don't care.

TNel: The grunts and voice of camera man is very scary.

Yes. There is a new voice for my nightmares, now. Great.