When You Do A Push-up, You Lift 65% Of Your Body Weight?

Is this true? If you weight 200 pounds, your pushing up 130 pounds when doing a push up? Or is there a different percentage?

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2 Responses to “When You Do A Push-up, You Lift 65% Of Your Body Weight?”

  1. funguyy on February 3rd, 2010 at 3:19 pm

    thats pretty close.
    you can check it for yourself.
    just get in the pushup position with your hands on a scale.
    i’m 188 and the scale says 125 in pushup position
    when i elevate my feet on a chair the lbs. went up to 145

  2. George A on February 3rd, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    Yes it is true, and if you elevate you feet that percentage goes up

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