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How Many Pushups Can You Do?

March 19th, 2007 by ben

This ripped little guy did 10,000 at once … and he’s only six!

Chinese Boy Flexing

Lu Di performed these 10,000 pushups in only 200 minutes at a Kungfu school in Central China’s Henan Province, at least according to the school’s president Shi Yongdi. Here he is in action:

Chinese Boy Pushups

The school decided that he showed so much potential that they waived his tuition for ten years. Talk about a scholarship!

via China Daily

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48 Responses to “How Many Pushups Can You Do?”

on 19 Mar 2007 at 6:22 pm ben

Thank goodness the Chinese media is known for being trustworthy, or I might have questioned the validity of the story a little.

In other news, Anita just informed me that she is practicing to complete 100 knee-bend pushups in 3 hours. Go Anita!
on 19 Mar 2007 at 6:36 pm Anthony

Absolutely impressive…

10 year scholarship. I can eat 10,000 hot dogs in 200 days. I wonder if that qualifies me for anything?

Anthony
Journey Through Divorce
on 19 Mar 2007 at 8:06 pm Nessa

I can’t even get down to the floor.
on 19 Mar 2007 at 8:10 pm BOSSY

Sure - when you weigh fifteen pounds it’s easy to propel yourself into the air. For Bossy - not so much.
on 19 Mar 2007 at 10:41 pm Benedict Herold

I would have been that school.. I would had a prefect body by then missed a chance.. lol… give me the address Ben.. let my kids get benefited…
on 19 Mar 2007 at 11:12 pm skh.pcola

Erm. Almost a pushup per second for over 3 hours? Sorry. I call bravo sierra.
on 20 Mar 2007 at 2:21 am kahea

Heck no! There is no way!
on 20 Mar 2007 at 4:14 am Freelance Cynic

Have you seen some of the things these guys can do though? It’s pretty impessive. Chi power and stuff!
on 20 Mar 2007 at 5:07 am Ryan

I can do a push-up… that is all
on 20 Mar 2007 at 12:02 pm Oriole Magic!

That’s it? A lousy 10,000?

What happened to the days when we used to push our 6 year olds to making something of themselves?!

Why, I did 15,000 push ups when I was 5!

These kids today!
on 20 Mar 2007 at 2:46 pm Free Thinker

You would think that this type of story would get edited before getting out there. Unfortunately, I don’t think all of the 10,000 pushups were legal. I don’t think his nose touched the ground, but his knees definitely did.
on 20 Mar 2007 at 2:56 pm Hammer

That would be 50 pushups per minute, or roughly 1 per second for over 3 hours? I seriously doubt the claim.
on 20 Mar 2007 at 3:07 pm deesnuts

Yeah but he’s balding so it doesnt matter.
on 20 Mar 2007 at 3:24 pm GH#1

This just in…..

LU DI LINKED TO STEROID PROBE:
Lu Di was not available for comment, but his agent has reported, “Lu Di has never used performance enhancing drugs in his entire life….of 6 years.”

But a close source who knows the family reports that it wasn’t just breast milk in those baby bottles.
on 20 Mar 2007 at 3:47 pm Kane

Umm..yeah, ok. The kid looks like a body builder. To build muscle, you need testosterone. A six year old boy has no testosterone. So, either he is a 40 year old midget, or has been supplemented with performance enhancing substances.
on 20 Mar 2007 at 4:04 pm Justin

My baby brother is built like that kid(he could do chin-ups when he was two), while I doubt the pushup claim, the build doesnt mean he is using steroids..
on 20 Mar 2007 at 5:15 pm Dan

Wow! Being able to do 10,000 pushups means this guy is set for life. The market for these folks is booming. Starting salaries are in the six-figure range!
on 20 Mar 2007 at 5:38 pm regulator

i bet the kids behind him were doing the counting. Probably something like this. 1 2 4 7 9 23 345 3000 10000.
on 20 Mar 2007 at 6:39 pm VINSANITY!

“i bet the kids behind him were doing the counting. Probably something like this. 1 2 4 7 9 23 345 3000 10000.”

Yeah asians are so horrible at math… NOT!
on 20 Mar 2007 at 7:21 pm Antik

Special methods by meabs of which every hard-working and purposeful boy\man (even a girl) is able to learn simple techniques to push up well. that’s it!
on 20 Mar 2007 at 8:32 pm CapnCaveman

I believe the kid’s built like that and probably pretty darn strobg, especially for his age, but I don’t believe for a second that he did that many pushups in good form. If he did that many pushups that quickly, they had to be half-assed and sloppy.
on 20 Mar 2007 at 11:12 pm malclave

The comment about the math being off is well taken. However…

What base are we talking about? If base 3, for instance, that corresponds to 243 in 18 minutes… which is still very impressive.
on 21 Mar 2007 at 12:19 am Arnold Schawarenezegerr

I EZ DO PUSHUP 1 MILLION ALL TIME YES I LIKE KID DO PUSHUP HE BE ASSISTANT GOVERNATOR HE EZ NO GIRLY MAN
on 21 Mar 2007 at 12:48 am Mr Ed

what they failed to mention is he did these 10,000 push ups when his belt got caught to the farm tractor drive shaft and bounced him up and down for 200 minutes before it ran out of gas and any one noticed he was stuck under the trailer
on 21 Mar 2007 at 3:43 am JK87

freethinker..since when is hte nose touching the ground hte criteria for a valid push up? It isn’t. the standard criteria is your chest lowered enough that it would touch a tennis ball
on 21 Mar 2007 at 3:49 am JK87

Anthony…50 hot dogs a day for 6 1/2 months? That would get you a nice chauffeured ride to the cemetery. Complete with a nice gathering in your honor.
on 21 Mar 2007 at 4:08 am ken

goods
on 21 Mar 2007 at 7:46 am Joe K

I wish the Million Dollar Man sponsored this event. . . he would have kicked his arms out from underneath him at 9,999, and then Virgil would have tossed his losing ass away.

BTW kid, try to trade that scholarship in for a decent friggin’ haircut, for God’s sake.
on 21 Mar 2007 at 9:46 am SMOKEY

look at all the other kids in the pic that go to the same school, and are forced through the same training. they are totally normal looking, potbellys and all…this kid is clearly “enhanced”.
on 21 Mar 2007 at 10:15 am Sensei Ern

I do 100 sit ups every morning…I sit up in bed, hit the snooze button on my alarm clock and lay back down.

I would do more, but my wife kicks me out of the bed.
on 21 Mar 2007 at 12:12 pm Oriole Magic Isn't Funny

Oriole Magic Isn’t Funny
on 21 Mar 2007 at 3:59 pm legalsoulja

JK87, actually, according to the US Army (of which I am a member) the actual standard for a “proper” push-up is lowering your entire body as a single unit until your upper arms are parallel to your shoulders. But, the bottom line is that this is way too far-fetched to believe.
on 21 Mar 2007 at 4:02 pm legalsoulja

Correction, guess I hit the submit button too fast, “…upper arms are parallel to THE GROUND”. Sorry about that folks, but still impossible if you ask me.
on 21 Mar 2007 at 4:24 pm Swabble

I like DONUTS!
on 21 Mar 2007 at 6:56 pm ben

the documented world record… WORLD RECORD, for anybody ever, is 10,507…

HMMMMMMMM, dooo i believe this storyyyyyy????
on 21 Mar 2007 at 8:48 pm Anita Bath

Hey ben - that’s the record for doing pushups non-stop (without even a 5 second break). While unbelievable, it’s conceivable that this kid took a 5 minute break or two.
on 22 Mar 2007 at 11:28 am Roy Schestowitz

That type of stuff scared the h*ll out of me. I spoke about it with the guys at the gym this morning. Apparently there are much more extreme cases as such.
on 22 Mar 2007 at 6:15 pm Mind_Body_Soul

It is difficult to believe because this website is posting the story. This would be impressive even if it was 5000 pushups. The unfortunate thing is that this kid probably has fused bones due to the high testosterone levels and will have short stature for the rest of his life, and hence his potential to be… has been hampered at least he gets free education for 10 years, and the fact that people like us have taken the time out our busy lives to write about him.
on 24 Mar 2007 at 10:45 pm Julie

Are you guys joking?

Supposing he only did 9000? Supposing those 9000 weren’t all up to military code? So what? He did more push ups than we do (readers of neatorama) collectively in a day.
on 24 Mar 2007 at 10:45 pm Julie

And yes, I realize this isn’t neatorama. Oh well.
on 29 Mar 2007 at 3:15 pm blondie

on word comes to mind:::: OW! That kid is a go getter, wonder if he could run for our next election?
on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:35 am John

It’s possible for that boy to do 10,000 push ups because there’s another chinese boy like him who did 7,500 push ups in front of the video which had been reported in the news.
on 27 Apr 2007 at 2:30 pm Jamez

I have created a pushups training program, where anyone can find his way to come to those 100 pushups at once.

You can check it out on my webpage: http://www.100pushups.info

Stay disciplined you all
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on 04 Oct 2007 at 2:14 pm Dylan Griffith

Okay, 10,000 is seriously pushing it for me, but I have been able to increase my pushup max immensely with the help of the Perfect Pushup

http://www.allegromedical.com/exercise-fitness-c523/perfect-pushup-p539240.html
on 11 Nov 2007 at 7:47 pm koolilke

this kid is a mainac and i dont think he did that cuz i can so like maybe 20 in like 10 minutes so i really dont think they were counting right
on 13 Aug 2008 at 8:00 pm Matthias

wow.. that’s really impressive.
I can only do about 22 push ups. T____T
but I guess that’s normal for my age. [x
on 13 Aug 2008 at 10:30 pm Drew

To Dylan Griffith:

Haha, way to promote your site. Thats viral marketing at its best ladies and gentlemen, disco shit.