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NO OPEN GYM TILL WEDNESDAY 8am. Full class schedule resumes Monday January 9th 2012. HOWEVER OPEN GYM WILL BE RUNNING AT 8am between the 4th and 7th JAN. Please check the forum the day before the class to ensure the box will be open!!!*

In case you wondered how much weight you move during a push-up, here's a chart from Zatsiorsky's Science and Practice of Strength Training (via).

"Percentages of body weight supported by the hands during push-ups at various postures"

Charles Poliquin has also posted something about the efficacy of push-ups.

“A new study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research identified the percent of body weight you lift with four varieties of the push-up. In a regular push-up, you lift 64 percent of body weight, whereas with a knee push-up, you lift 49 percent. If you’re new to training, performing the push-up with hands elevated on a 24-inch bench will allow you to lift even less than a knee push-up, at 41 percent of body weight. Elevating the feet on the 24-inch bench makes it harder and allows you to lift 75 percent of body weight, still not enough to elicit serious strength gains if you can bench press 225 lbs.”

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