• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Okay. So you’ve categorized yourself by this arbitrary metric. Now what? How is this useful in any way?

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    5 months ago

    I think the thing stopping me from doing 40 squats in a minute is that it might make me dizzy, not that my legs aren’t strong enough or whatever.

  • DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    thats blatantly false im an unfit fuck who eats nothing but ramen all day and cant walk straight because of a knee impediment and i could still do advanced on all but the pushups

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      5 months ago

      So your legs and core are developed from transporting your own body weight, but your upper body is weak from only lifting noodles?

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        5 months ago

        I know you’re kinda just making a dig, but it is skewed really strangely. If you can generally hit advanced without explicitly training except for pushups, then a person who regularly trains upperbody strength should be able to do significantly more on the other workouts unless they were only training upperbody.

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      30 Burpees in a minute isn’t easy. Could be luck and good genetics but if you can make that, I don’t feel like you’re as unfit as you think you are.

      I’m assuming your form is at least close to okay and of course I don’t know you and different body types and all… but I workout regularly and I’m not going to make it to 30 in a minute without my form turning to shit. Not sure I could make it even with shit form honestly.

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      5 months ago

      I feel the same way. I can do the advanced on all counts but I’m super out of shape as well… Not like “round is a shape” out of shape, just generally unfit.

      Being able to do them once is not that hard if you don’t weigh a lot (small people find this sort of thing a lot easier because it’s using body weight as resistance) and have previously built those muscles, but that means exactly nothing about actual overall fitness in the here and now.