What could go wrong? Well if you took a certain "safe and effective" vaxx, you could stroke out or suddenly and unexpectedly die of something baffling. 🤔
If a healthy young male starts from "scratch", he will need to take months to work up to 100 pushups in a row without a break. Why? It takes twelve weeks to strengthen Sharpy's fibers, the anchors that hold tendons to bone. To overtrain before the tendons anchor down is an invitation to injury.
As my patients aged, they, like me, lost overall strength and fitness capacity. Now someone on Sermorelin and hormone replacement therapy--like RFK is, can "hold the line" against aging for quite a while. So much so that studies show "bio-identical HRT" reduces the risk of death from all causes, and some of that is being able to keep the metabolism primed with exercise. (This should be standard of care for all patients to be measured for hormone levels by 45, and supplemented as needed. I told my daughter and son-in-law, now in their 30s and 40s, to be tested years ago for levels, so they can present accurate data to their integrative providers to establish what their particular levels were as fully functional young adults.)
Jeffrey how old are you, and can you meet this fitness challenge?
100 pushups and 50 pull ups is serious goals. In my senior year of high school, I was Mr Virginia, first place in a statewide fitness contest. I did 150 pushups, but only 23 pull ups. People fully as fit or more than I was did not get close to that but they performed better in running and jumping and other events. A fitness program should test people and then encourage them to improve against their starting condition. I could do 20 pushups with either arm, but I could not run with many who could not do many pushups. Very few will sign up for a fitness challenge with goals that very few could achieve if they trained several hours for years. For my Virginia fitness challenge, I trained two or three hours, multiple days a week, sometimes every day a week, for a year. I did not do the same things every day. If I did the same things every day my performance decreased, if I did different things, alternating what I did, I improved.
Absolutely agree. If we were to have challenges like increasing the number of push-ups and pull-ups by some percent each week, it would be reasonable. For example, beginning at 10 pull-ups, done daily for one week, and increase the number done by 20% each week, that would be doable by most men.
You want to meet people where they are performing, then give them challenges that increase in difficulty and numbers OVER TIME. Who would reasonable insist that a child who is in seventh grade, but reading only on a first grade level, be expected to increase their reading ability to seventh grade in one months time?
Some years ago I trekked across the South of France. In the 13th century, a little known war, a crusade actually, was fought there. (Bet you didn’t learn that in school.) There are multiple fortresses built on the tops of ridges and mountains, barely accessible by my fat arse, at the time, carrying little more than a digital camera. I marveled at how it was that not only had these fortifications been built - but during said war they had been besieged as well- with medieval siege engines dragged up extremely steep hills that I could barely walk up while being completely winded. I wondered how this was. How could men have managed to accomplish that?
I think in the intervening years I have figured it out. Modern man is weak because he eats a diet full of fake GMO lab made shit. Medieval guys who dragged heavy ass siege engines up the mountain didn’t work out in a gym, and didn’t train either, at least not how one does now, and they didn’t eat fake shit either. They’d probably laugh at us for thinking that a few pushups and pull-ups are some kind of hard contest.
I was a fitness instructor who administered hundreds of fitness assessments at an upscale gym in Briarcliff Manor NY. From 1987-1991. One part of the test was as many pushups you could do in one minute. Very few men could do 10. Most buckled after about 10 seconds. It was so bad, that I started offering pushups from the knee, A.K.A. "girl pushups". They would say "NO way", and then proceeded to fall on their face. Only one man I ever tested made it for a whole minute, and probably did forty something. Luckily, pull-ups were not part of the test, because I doubt most could do even one! I did have to give something like The Presidents Test to kids. It was a disaster. I tried to spare their self esteem by telling them that so far I had not had one kid who could do a pull-up, so they shouldn't feel bad if they didn't succeed. I hated giving those tests. I am so impressed with Kennedy's personal fitness, even if he was 30 years younger!
Actually I caught attention of the challenge on the "X"-account of Prof. Homburg - one of the most brilliant critics of our criminal government here in Germany since the beginning of the "pandemic"- crime 5 ys. ago.
He reports on a regular basis to his german followers (220.000) what's the latest news concerning the biopharmaceutical complex (and much more) that's not covered in the legacy media at all...
Of course there is also a focus on what's happening in the U.S. under the leadership of RFK jr. at HHS.
I expected, I could do probably 50 push-ups (no problem) and 10 pull-ups (which I'm not used to at all) and decided to give it a try.
But the latter - boy these are real hard...
So I've begun a workout regimen with a rubber band for starters...
Hope to achieve 50 / 10 (without rubber band) in under two minutes until the end of the year and to go from there...
If you are out of shape just do what youi can. I think, for any "thinking brain", this is obvious. Otherwise plop yourself down in a recliner, in front of the TV with another Big Mac and don't worry about it. This headline shows how desperate and pitiful the plous are to make JFK look bad. Dumb
OTC, NEITHER the unproductive stress nor the stupid 'otherwise' counter offer make any sense...
Consider TaiChi for body tuning and full energy to all parts...
Then sleep at night on a far-infra-red mat to get the immune system's chemistry well dispersed thru the body and provide the temp needed for repair work in cool air and swaddled warmth... also prevents cancer as well --Japanese style-- which the stupid pushup challenges do the opposite...
My husband just turned 60 and he could do this. He doesn’t go to a gym. When we were married I got him off processed food and he dropped 20lbs without dieting and started turning lean and muscular the way men used to look. He does yard work and car work and walks dogs and that’s it. We cook the way we did in the 70s, organic produce, beans, fish and some meat dishes like pork chops and sauerkraut etc. Nothing trendy. It really should start here. Basic food get off the fake flavored garbage and work in the yard and lift tires etc.
To the degree that I could *ever* say NYT was correct about anything I'll offer this observation - Both Sec. Kennedy and Sec. Hegseth are generally fit men who already have fitness routines that are better than most Americans.
Suggestion - Include a person in the public "Challenge" who does not match the same fitness profile as both Pete & Bobby. Someone from the administration who is more like the typical American who is not in shape. The person who this Challenge is supposed to inspire. But with a desire to get fit. This person will connect with Americans more than with fit men who most Americans would aspire to be as fit as. If the Challenge is intended to inspire Americans to get fit again perhaps adding this type of person will be more inspirational, more attainable, more relatable. And more likely to be effective at getting more Americans fit.
Now that I'm done with that icky feeling of acknowledging a smidge of what NYT said has some validity to it, I'll offer this review of my social media posts from 2020. When news of a very bad, deadly virus was spreading across the world in February/March 2020 my social media posts called for people to take control of their own health by eating properly, getting exercise, sunlight, fresh air, proper sleep, socializing - all proven steps to improve our body's immune system.
Social media scolds shrieked "But this is an emergency, there's no time for people to get fit enough to be protected, we must lock down, avoid others, wear masks."
When masks were mandated my social media posts called for people to defy the mask mandates as I called out public officials for demanding that we, "Just wear the damn mask." I suggested public officials would've been better off leading a "Let's Get Fit America" program with the same vigor and enthusiasm, media amplification as they had for masks. With daily/weekly updates of public officials working out, jogging, preparing nutritious meals, setting proper sleep schedules, engaging in healthy social interactions.
As it slipped into we must wear masks until the "vaccines" were introduced that would save humanity, stopping the virus from spreading when it met the vaccinated I recalled my initial comments about taking control of our own health, adopting healthy habits, when I was told it was an emergency and there was no time for people to get fit. I suggested that had everyone, public officials chosen to follow that suggestion enough time had passed and enough more time was to pass before the "vaccines" were introduced that all of those self-help fitness and nutrition practices would've already been paying dividends, improved immune systems across the board that would protect not only from Covid death, but from all causes of death that don't involve acute traumatic injuries.
And as I shared all of this eternal wisdom nobody bothered to listen or care. The narrative was set. Government, Big pHARMa and doctors were going to save mankind. Nothing we could do was going to save us, we all had to do what we were told or we were being selfish and harming others.
Narrative. They won on narrative, not facts. Illusion of story telling, not reality of lived experience.
If the NYT and those setting narrative had any real interest in our health they'd have gone with the "Let's Get Fit America" program. They didn't. They went with the "Wear the damned mask and get the damned jab" programs. They proved they have ill-intent and malevolence for the population. My grudging concession to the NYT I opened with notwithstanding.
I applaud their efforts to focus Americans on fitness. But their "challenge" was off the mark on multiple fronts. First of all, from the footage I saw, they weren't doing push-ups and pull-ups. They were doing half push-ups and half pull-ups, and that's being generous. And they made sure to stay far away from the difficult part of the reps, when mechanical advantage is at its worst. As anyone who's done an honest push-up or pull-up knows, that's when your chest touches the floor and when your chin moves above the bar. It was shameful. I have no problem with compromising form when exercising. So long as it doesn't put you in position for injury, you're benefiting. The problem is once you start MEASURING PERFORMANCE if you don't adhere to standards you're cheating as badly as any pharma researcher. The second issue I have is less clear to the average Joe, but well known in athletic performance circles. Doing high volume push-ups and pull-ups primarily measures muscle endurance. Muscle endurance is nowhere near the top of the list of what matters for most people most of the time. What matters is burst strength and cardio. IOW, how much force can you apply, and how long can you go at high intensity without getting so out of breath you can't perform for crap. We didn't have weights when I was a kid. So, I did pushups. When I was 12 or 13 I could do them near-endlessly, over a hundred strict form. Later we got weights. Later I trained cardio. I was far more effective physically with that training (factoring in the age difference), but could never do nearly as many push-ups and sure as hell didn't care, since it's a useless ability. STRICT pull-ups, unlike strict push-ups and cheat pull-ups, are hard enough they're a good strength exercise for most males. After a point though, you'll have to strap on weights to get any stronger. More reps won't do that - you'll just be able to do more reps.
I was kind of ashamed for them as I watched the half-way down pushups.
Instead they should have corralled a fit Marine to show correct form and offered a challenge of 30 pushups and 12 pullups in single shots. THAT would be plenty challenging for 90% of men.
Yeah, a fit marine would be a great example. AND it'd be nice to see both of them doing pretty strict form, and failing when it happens. They're both fit enough they have nothing to be ashamed of. Why cheat to meet some arbitrary benchmark and look lame doing it? Especially when being able to do a huge number of reps is not useful in normal life or practically any sport, where strength, agility, and cardio matter, but muscular endurance not at all. In life and sports, you're constantly changing positions as in combat sports, basketball, football, tennis, etc. or resting between efforts, like high jump, diving, golf, baseball. When, exactly, does it matter that you can hammer the very same muscle group over and over and over until the lactic acid makes you scream, or that muscle gives out from fatigue? Like, never? Well, there's the push-up/pull-up challenge. Besides that, I thought of ONE, a closely-matched arm wrestling contest. But if one of those arm-wrestlers had been training for muscular endurance instead of strength, he'd have lost in one second, so it doesn't even work there.
'Soy Boys' Need not Apply
It seems it would be too tough for Mamdani for sure.
What could go wrong? Well if you took a certain "safe and effective" vaxx, you could stroke out or suddenly and unexpectedly die of something baffling. 🤔
Excellent point.
NYTrash deliberately misses the point yet again. Birdcage liner - if you hate your bird.
My bird poops on Vanity Fair. Grabbed from the recycle bin. I don't pay for that sort of thing.
Just build yourself up, little by little. After a few weeks, this becomes doable.
If a healthy young male starts from "scratch", he will need to take months to work up to 100 pushups in a row without a break. Why? It takes twelve weeks to strengthen Sharpy's fibers, the anchors that hold tendons to bone. To overtrain before the tendons anchor down is an invitation to injury.
As my patients aged, they, like me, lost overall strength and fitness capacity. Now someone on Sermorelin and hormone replacement therapy--like RFK is, can "hold the line" against aging for quite a while. So much so that studies show "bio-identical HRT" reduces the risk of death from all causes, and some of that is being able to keep the metabolism primed with exercise. (This should be standard of care for all patients to be measured for hormone levels by 45, and supplemented as needed. I told my daughter and son-in-law, now in their 30s and 40s, to be tested years ago for levels, so they can present accurate data to their integrative providers to establish what their particular levels were as fully functional young adults.)
Jeffrey how old are you, and can you meet this fitness challenge?
100 pushups and 50 pull ups is serious goals. In my senior year of high school, I was Mr Virginia, first place in a statewide fitness contest. I did 150 pushups, but only 23 pull ups. People fully as fit or more than I was did not get close to that but they performed better in running and jumping and other events. A fitness program should test people and then encourage them to improve against their starting condition. I could do 20 pushups with either arm, but I could not run with many who could not do many pushups. Very few will sign up for a fitness challenge with goals that very few could achieve if they trained several hours for years. For my Virginia fitness challenge, I trained two or three hours, multiple days a week, sometimes every day a week, for a year. I did not do the same things every day. If I did the same things every day my performance decreased, if I did different things, alternating what I did, I improved.
Absolutely agree. If we were to have challenges like increasing the number of push-ups and pull-ups by some percent each week, it would be reasonable. For example, beginning at 10 pull-ups, done daily for one week, and increase the number done by 20% each week, that would be doable by most men.
You want to meet people where they are performing, then give them challenges that increase in difficulty and numbers OVER TIME. Who would reasonable insist that a child who is in seventh grade, but reading only on a first grade level, be expected to increase their reading ability to seventh grade in one months time?
That is riculous.
Some years ago I trekked across the South of France. In the 13th century, a little known war, a crusade actually, was fought there. (Bet you didn’t learn that in school.) There are multiple fortresses built on the tops of ridges and mountains, barely accessible by my fat arse, at the time, carrying little more than a digital camera. I marveled at how it was that not only had these fortifications been built - but during said war they had been besieged as well- with medieval siege engines dragged up extremely steep hills that I could barely walk up while being completely winded. I wondered how this was. How could men have managed to accomplish that?
I think in the intervening years I have figured it out. Modern man is weak because he eats a diet full of fake GMO lab made shit. Medieval guys who dragged heavy ass siege engines up the mountain didn’t work out in a gym, and didn’t train either, at least not how one does now, and they didn’t eat fake shit either. They’d probably laugh at us for thinking that a few pushups and pull-ups are some kind of hard contest.
jfk started the presidential fitness test. all ages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Fitness_Test
50 mile hike, anyone? legacy continues in jfk50
https://www.jfk50mile.org/history/
Did the 50-miler at the time. In winter, snow on the ground, mostly in the mountains, and by myself. Loved it.
did it once. good experience. probably the best ultra for first timers.
I’m doing a 50k this weekend.
I can’t stand the NYT. They either constantly lie to their readers, or they (the NYT) are that stupid!
I would say both. They lie and their readers are that stupid.
Love your references to history to flesh out the story. Challenge to convert flab to muscle fibre - way to go!
I was a fitness instructor who administered hundreds of fitness assessments at an upscale gym in Briarcliff Manor NY. From 1987-1991. One part of the test was as many pushups you could do in one minute. Very few men could do 10. Most buckled after about 10 seconds. It was so bad, that I started offering pushups from the knee, A.K.A. "girl pushups". They would say "NO way", and then proceeded to fall on their face. Only one man I ever tested made it for a whole minute, and probably did forty something. Luckily, pull-ups were not part of the test, because I doubt most could do even one! I did have to give something like The Presidents Test to kids. It was a disaster. I tried to spare their self esteem by telling them that so far I had not had one kid who could do a pull-up, so they shouldn't feel bad if they didn't succeed. I hated giving those tests. I am so impressed with Kennedy's personal fitness, even if he was 30 years younger!
Actually I caught attention of the challenge on the "X"-account of Prof. Homburg - one of the most brilliant critics of our criminal government here in Germany since the beginning of the "pandemic"- crime 5 ys. ago.
He reports on a regular basis to his german followers (220.000) what's the latest news concerning the biopharmaceutical complex (and much more) that's not covered in the legacy media at all...
Of course there is also a focus on what's happening in the U.S. under the leadership of RFK jr. at HHS.
I expected, I could do probably 50 push-ups (no problem) and 10 pull-ups (which I'm not used to at all) and decided to give it a try.
But the latter - boy these are real hard...
So I've begun a workout regimen with a rubber band for starters...
Hope to achieve 50 / 10 (without rubber band) in under two minutes until the end of the year and to go from there...
If you are out of shape just do what youi can. I think, for any "thinking brain", this is obvious. Otherwise plop yourself down in a recliner, in front of the TV with another Big Mac and don't worry about it. This headline shows how desperate and pitiful the plous are to make JFK look bad. Dumb
OTC, NEITHER the unproductive stress nor the stupid 'otherwise' counter offer make any sense...
Consider TaiChi for body tuning and full energy to all parts...
Then sleep at night on a far-infra-red mat to get the immune system's chemistry well dispersed thru the body and provide the temp needed for repair work in cool air and swaddled warmth... also prevents cancer as well --Japanese style-- which the stupid pushup challenges do the opposite...
Suit yourself...
TTYL
Yup, exactly, people will do what suits themselves, good or bad
Yup, exactly. Suit yourself … good or bad
MJ, could you provide details on the IR mat and sleeping accessories to achieve this goal?
My husband just turned 60 and he could do this. He doesn’t go to a gym. When we were married I got him off processed food and he dropped 20lbs without dieting and started turning lean and muscular the way men used to look. He does yard work and car work and walks dogs and that’s it. We cook the way we did in the 70s, organic produce, beans, fish and some meat dishes like pork chops and sauerkraut etc. Nothing trendy. It really should start here. Basic food get off the fake flavored garbage and work in the yard and lift tires etc.
Look at pictures from Woodstock. They all look like what triathletes look like now. Then look around. Almost everyone is fat. Really, really fat.
It’s the food supply- it’s full of fake lab-made glyphosate-laced GMO crap and it’s killing people slowly and making them fat, sick, and weak.
The way this makes sense is for you to build up to those numbers. Don't aim to get those numbers on day one.
To the degree that I could *ever* say NYT was correct about anything I'll offer this observation - Both Sec. Kennedy and Sec. Hegseth are generally fit men who already have fitness routines that are better than most Americans.
Suggestion - Include a person in the public "Challenge" who does not match the same fitness profile as both Pete & Bobby. Someone from the administration who is more like the typical American who is not in shape. The person who this Challenge is supposed to inspire. But with a desire to get fit. This person will connect with Americans more than with fit men who most Americans would aspire to be as fit as. If the Challenge is intended to inspire Americans to get fit again perhaps adding this type of person will be more inspirational, more attainable, more relatable. And more likely to be effective at getting more Americans fit.
Now that I'm done with that icky feeling of acknowledging a smidge of what NYT said has some validity to it, I'll offer this review of my social media posts from 2020. When news of a very bad, deadly virus was spreading across the world in February/March 2020 my social media posts called for people to take control of their own health by eating properly, getting exercise, sunlight, fresh air, proper sleep, socializing - all proven steps to improve our body's immune system.
Social media scolds shrieked "But this is an emergency, there's no time for people to get fit enough to be protected, we must lock down, avoid others, wear masks."
When masks were mandated my social media posts called for people to defy the mask mandates as I called out public officials for demanding that we, "Just wear the damn mask." I suggested public officials would've been better off leading a "Let's Get Fit America" program with the same vigor and enthusiasm, media amplification as they had for masks. With daily/weekly updates of public officials working out, jogging, preparing nutritious meals, setting proper sleep schedules, engaging in healthy social interactions.
As it slipped into we must wear masks until the "vaccines" were introduced that would save humanity, stopping the virus from spreading when it met the vaccinated I recalled my initial comments about taking control of our own health, adopting healthy habits, when I was told it was an emergency and there was no time for people to get fit. I suggested that had everyone, public officials chosen to follow that suggestion enough time had passed and enough more time was to pass before the "vaccines" were introduced that all of those self-help fitness and nutrition practices would've already been paying dividends, improved immune systems across the board that would protect not only from Covid death, but from all causes of death that don't involve acute traumatic injuries.
And as I shared all of this eternal wisdom nobody bothered to listen or care. The narrative was set. Government, Big pHARMa and doctors were going to save mankind. Nothing we could do was going to save us, we all had to do what we were told or we were being selfish and harming others.
Narrative. They won on narrative, not facts. Illusion of story telling, not reality of lived experience.
If the NYT and those setting narrative had any real interest in our health they'd have gone with the "Let's Get Fit America" program. They didn't. They went with the "Wear the damned mask and get the damned jab" programs. They proved they have ill-intent and malevolence for the population. My grudging concession to the NYT I opened with notwithstanding.
I’d like to see either of them do 50 pull-ups in 10 minutes. That said, it’s definitely a challenge.
using perfect form.
I applaud their efforts to focus Americans on fitness. But their "challenge" was off the mark on multiple fronts. First of all, from the footage I saw, they weren't doing push-ups and pull-ups. They were doing half push-ups and half pull-ups, and that's being generous. And they made sure to stay far away from the difficult part of the reps, when mechanical advantage is at its worst. As anyone who's done an honest push-up or pull-up knows, that's when your chest touches the floor and when your chin moves above the bar. It was shameful. I have no problem with compromising form when exercising. So long as it doesn't put you in position for injury, you're benefiting. The problem is once you start MEASURING PERFORMANCE if you don't adhere to standards you're cheating as badly as any pharma researcher. The second issue I have is less clear to the average Joe, but well known in athletic performance circles. Doing high volume push-ups and pull-ups primarily measures muscle endurance. Muscle endurance is nowhere near the top of the list of what matters for most people most of the time. What matters is burst strength and cardio. IOW, how much force can you apply, and how long can you go at high intensity without getting so out of breath you can't perform for crap. We didn't have weights when I was a kid. So, I did pushups. When I was 12 or 13 I could do them near-endlessly, over a hundred strict form. Later we got weights. Later I trained cardio. I was far more effective physically with that training (factoring in the age difference), but could never do nearly as many push-ups and sure as hell didn't care, since it's a useless ability. STRICT pull-ups, unlike strict push-ups and cheat pull-ups, are hard enough they're a good strength exercise for most males. After a point though, you'll have to strap on weights to get any stronger. More reps won't do that - you'll just be able to do more reps.
my thoughts too Steel man.
I was kind of ashamed for them as I watched the half-way down pushups.
Instead they should have corralled a fit Marine to show correct form and offered a challenge of 30 pushups and 12 pullups in single shots. THAT would be plenty challenging for 90% of men.
Yeah, a fit marine would be a great example. AND it'd be nice to see both of them doing pretty strict form, and failing when it happens. They're both fit enough they have nothing to be ashamed of. Why cheat to meet some arbitrary benchmark and look lame doing it? Especially when being able to do a huge number of reps is not useful in normal life or practically any sport, where strength, agility, and cardio matter, but muscular endurance not at all. In life and sports, you're constantly changing positions as in combat sports, basketball, football, tennis, etc. or resting between efforts, like high jump, diving, golf, baseball. When, exactly, does it matter that you can hammer the very same muscle group over and over and over until the lactic acid makes you scream, or that muscle gives out from fatigue? Like, never? Well, there's the push-up/pull-up challenge. Besides that, I thought of ONE, a closely-matched arm wrestling contest. But if one of those arm-wrestlers had been training for muscular endurance instead of strength, he'd have lost in one second, so it doesn't even work there.