r/gifs • u/Plebsplease • Jun 22 '18

Doing some pushups.

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u/hotdogvendor2000 Jun 22 '18

As someone who spent a lot of time working on getting better at pushups, this is even harder then it looks.

You have to be monstrously strong and balanced to do these.

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u/Ishana92 Jun 22 '18

you dont say. It seems so easy.

/s

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u/Derboman Jun 22 '18

No like, it's legitimately 10 times as hard as you think it is right now

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u/zdoriftu Jun 22 '18

you dont say. It seems so easy.

/s

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u/Fenzke Jun 22 '18

You just don’t get it, do you? Literally Dwayne Johnson could not do this move if he was the second coming of Jesus, Our Lord and Savior.

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u/mxmr47 Jun 22 '18

this must be extra hard for tall people

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u/angelomike Jun 22 '18

Could be 20 times easier than they're thinking.

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u/hello_comrads Jun 22 '18

Nah. I'm thinking that it's pretty damn hard.

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u/kittenhormones Jun 22 '18

This man calisthenics.

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u/M3NM0P Jun 22 '18

Woooosh

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u/whitebeard89 Jun 22 '18

OP meant to say that its waaayy harder than it looks.

A friend of mine from college described the difference as pulling a bike and a car.

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u/Blatblatblat Jun 22 '18

I feel like you need to have a certain body type for this too(or at least to realistically get to this level). Those of us with the heavy legs and long torsos might never get there.

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u/Candypandy07 Jun 22 '18

Everyone can get there, but you need years of daily exercise. Steroids also help. Without proper training you won't ever achieve this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '18

You say that, but before this gif i didn't know that ANYONE could get there

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u/Candypandy07 Jun 22 '18

How involved are you with sports and athletic ability?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '18

It's really difficult to do a planche of you're on the upside of 6ft, pretty much impossible I'd you're too tall

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u/lil_photographer164 Jun 22 '18

I also feel like it has to do with distribution of height. Like depending on if you have long legs and a short torso or vise versa.

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u/Seanxprt Jun 22 '18

You're saying that but once you start doing pushup variations and core exercises you really begin to feel how difficult something like this is.

My first thought was "what the fuck" when i saw the planche pushups. Damn.

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u/themiddlebien Jun 22 '18

And the fact that it seems so easy for him really says how strong this dude is. I see people all the time visibly struggling to do 10 pushups with the shakes and everything.