What % of your body weight are you actually lifting when doing a pushup.

[Brackis]

Just curious if anyone knew.

 

[Pepsi90919]

50%

 

[jlee]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1626120&enterthread=y&arctab=y
Posted by me, even.

 

[DiZASTiX]

When performing the push-up, you are lifting approximately 60% of your body weight

http://www.bodhizone.com/archives/push-up-your-bench-press

 

[Dissipate]

Why don't you use your head and a little physics to figure it out.

 

[SampSon]

From a quick search on the internet it seems that it's around 60%.

 

[misle]

I got into push-up position with my hands on a scale, and it said that I weighed about 2/3rd my body weight. So, I would assume that you are lifting 60-66.666666667% of your weight.

 

[Atheus]

It also depends on the position of your hands and feet. I used to do pushups with my feet on a bench to increse the weight, and hands further apart is more difficult.

 

[UncleWai]

You are pushing your body up, not really lifting.