Pushups and Benchpress?

Question

hey there. if u do a lot of pushups and benchpress, i need your help. just now i did one rep pushup with two people standing on my back. combined together they weight 93kg/ 205lbs. so i did one rep pushup with 93kg/205lbs on my back. and i weight 77kg/170lbs. what do u think? and if it correlates to benchpress, what do u think my one rep max benchpress would be? estimate.thanks. would really appreciate your answers.

Answer 1

Woody and I rarely disagree...but this time I gotta.

First, you gotta redefine strength versus static muscle memory. The two differ. If you do any exercise long enough, your muscle will get familiar with the movement and you will be able to do more. But does this translate to strength?

Simple answer, no.

Anyone who looks at your legs as a stabilizer on a pushup has never examined their bench. The BENCH in and of itself is a stabilizer. Your legs are wide out, and your torso is laying down. Also the way you grip the bar turns your elbows outward, sitting most of the weight on your shoulders, not your chest. If any of you "super bench pressers" dont believe that, turn your elbows in so that when the bench comes down, your elbows scrape your ribs, I bet the weight you press will be cut in half.

Truth be known, the bench press is a better design for tendon damage than it is muscle building. Try to get any of the modern bodybuilders to do fifty pushups...if what they say is true, they should spit them out with no effort. Most of them cant push past twenty five though. "Too bulky" is the excuse.

Strength is measured in alot of ways, and how much weight you can push on a certain machine after ten years of doing it isnt really one of them. The guy that mentioned his 405 pound squat...take him outside and have him run a couple of wind sprints...bet you after two 40 yard runs he comes in dead last every time.

If your motion doesnt translate into another aspect beyond the exercise...it doesnt produce strength. Just numbers. Having big legs does not mean you can run.

Answer 2

push ups is about 65-75% of your body weight = to the bench press.  So if you weigh 200 lbs, doing a push up is like bench press around 140lbs.

Answer 3

You cannot calculate your bench press max rate by doing a push up because in push up, you are using your legs as support and also you need to make your back stable because 2 guys are sitting on you and will affect the calculation for the bench press max rep. Just do bench press to measure it. I think you can lift more on your max rep. If you want to measure your 1 push up max rep then your on the right track.

Answer 4

I've been working out for almost 15 years and I can tell you that doing push-ups with 205 pounds on your back is not the same as doing 205 on the benchpress. As someone has already mentioned, the leg support from the push-ups is the big difference. I can only push 330lbs. on the benchpress once (barely), but I've had 340lbs. of weight on my back and was able to push up with it twice.

Answer 5

u gotta try and see whta your max is . im 5'7  170lb and i been working out for 6 months now. my max when i started was 185lb. now its 275lb so keep it up