What percentage of your body weight are you "benchpressing" when you do a pushup?

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Lifer
May 30, 2002
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
About 70-75%

I have done a few close grip pushups on the bathroom scale. I weigh about 200, the weight registering on the scale was in the 140-150 range. And I do have big legs, and a big upper body.

More than I thought it would be.