{"id":654,"date":"2014-05-15T12:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T00:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2014-05-15T12:36:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T00:36:43","slug":"how-do-push-ups-compare-with-bench-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/how-do-push-ups-compare-with-bench-press.php","title":{"rendered":"How do Push ups compare with Bench Press?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/how-do-push-ups-compare-with-bench-press.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is going to be a short succinct post.<\/p>\n<p>Basically a regular push up is about 65% of your body weight &#8211; this is established &#038; if you don&#8217;t believe it get some scales.<\/p>\n<p>If your legs are raised its 75% of body weight so for me at about 220 lbs a push up is about 154 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>If I put on my 66 lb weight vest then a push up is 220 lbs. OK that&#8217;s an average kind of bench certainly nothing special.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped benching when I switched to KB training but I yearn the stimulation of super heavy weight. I used to bench 400lbs on the machine loaded with extra plates for 5 sets of 6 reps.<\/p>\n<p>So the final step is the get a power pushup from lifeline &#8211; which I just ordered off ebay for under $100 including shipping to New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>With this thing I can take my chest strength back to where it once was 400 lbs+.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/images\/PowerPushup.JPG\" alt=\"power pushup\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet This is going to be a short succinct post. Basically a regular push up is about 65% of your body weight &#8211; this is established &#038; if you don&#8217;t believe it get some scales. If your legs are raised its 75% of body weight so for me at about 220 lbs a push up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[564,562,563],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-press-up","tag-push-up-weight","tag-pushup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}