mrmusclepants’s BodyBlog

I was at SDSU today while there was a push up contest going on to promote the U.S. Army. The pushups were a little more difficult than normal because you had to use 2 parallel bars so that everybody’s hand placement was universal. The previous national record was 75 pushups. There was no time limit, and you were allowed to rest with your arms locked out as long as you didn’t bend your knees or drop your stomach down. A bunch of people did 40…50…60… until I finally went. I ended at 82 before my wrist gave out and I had to stop. A few turns later another kid tied me at 82 and we were going to have a tie-breaker, but I had to wait until the guy got back from his 50 minute class. So while he was gone they let me take my turn so he’d be ready to go when he got back. I started out feeling kinda tired but got to 50..60…100…150…200…250…300…all the way until I hit 313 pushups!!! I had a crowd cheering me on, the unit’s commander came out and presented me with a medal, I won an ipod shuffle, had everybody giving me high fives and handshakes…It was the best I’ve felt in a long time. I’m exhausted as all hell, but it was worth every second of it to push myself to my maximum potential and have such a huge group of support for simply exercising my body and will power.