If gymnastics was easy, they’d call it football
My little girl challenged a kid from the local championship team to a push up contest:
Five minutes before this, she did 50 push ups and 5 one-armed right handed and 5 one-armed left handed. 48-27 if you must know. Junior wouldn’t participate in the tackling contest because she’s smart.
Oh, and, also, you should apparently subscribe to my nephew’s youtube channel because that is important to him.
December 21st, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Hate to break it to you, Uncle, but it’s a well known fact that because little kids don’t weigh much, stuff like this is actually very easy for them. Muscle mass and age don’t typically keep pace with one another, so the older you get, the more muscle and less mass you need to maintain to be able to keep those sorts of activities at the same levels as when you were younger.
December 21st, 2013 at 8:29 pm
Yes, because no one knows that.
December 21st, 2013 at 11:22 pm
Power to weight ratios.
December 21st, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Yeah, like i said, no tackling contest. It’s good stuff.
December 21st, 2013 at 11:28 pm
The explanation of the discrepancy is obvious.
The boy was pushing himself away from the floor, while the girl was pushing the floor away from herself.
December 21st, 2013 at 11:36 pm
First, congratulations to your daughter Uncle. Second, anyone that has any familiarity with gymnastics won’t be surprised by the results, gymnasts can be so strong as to defy belief. And third, kudos to the football player, he displayed great character.
December 21st, 2013 at 11:41 pm
My grandfather used to say, if when calf is born, you pick it up every day, when it is full grown you’ll be able to pick up the cow.
Every day you skip takes it toll. Works when lifting yourself as well.
December 22nd, 2013 at 12:26 am
Subscribed.
Definitely well done on both their parts.
December 22nd, 2013 at 12:33 am
Stupid comparison and overly sensitive response when people call you on it.
December 22nd, 2013 at 1:02 am
That “power to weight ratio” dodge is a crock. Take two college seniors, same age. One is a champion gymnast, the other a champion football player. In body-weight exercises, the gymnast will outperform the football player approximately ten times out of ten.
December 22nd, 2013 at 1:30 am
Can’t we all get along? Push-ups are not the be all, end all measure of … anything. A pretty good measure of strength, sure. But many fit football players have other gifts. Like not participating, always, in the comfort of a 72 degree, windless environment. Or running into, through or around lots of large, mean men. Or participating in 75 or so intense “plays” every week, again with said large, mean men. Gymnast are great athletes, though often smaller than the average D1 college football player. But many football players (think Adrian Peterson) are spectacular athletes, albeit in different ways.
December 22nd, 2013 at 1:56 am
Oh my goodness people (1st and 3rd poster). This was meant to be cute. Not actually show that UNCs daughter is going to beat up a 14 year old. ChiLL out!
December 22nd, 2013 at 2:39 am
Awesome kids. Both, including the guy who participated.
It’s always good to see a little pride in athleticism about there. We need a whole lot more of that.
December 22nd, 2013 at 2:40 am
With all due respect to both participants in this, you all should look at the form of both parties’ pushups. The girl has a wide arm position and the boy has a close in arm position. As anyone who has done their share of pushups knows, a wide position allows you to recruit your pectorals AND your triceps. A narrow position restricts your pectorals and thus reduces your overall pushing power. Just an observation…
December 22nd, 2013 at 3:17 am
Guys. They’re two kids doing push-ups.
It was a friendly competition.
She smoked him, everyone had fun, everyone THERE was a good sport about it.
Awesome kids! Glad they’re both doing something athletic and having fun with it so they’ll continue. 🙂
December 22nd, 2013 at 9:27 am
I’m with Squeaky on this.
Congratulations to both sets of parents for raising children who want to do something other than sit in front of a screen all day. Congratulations to his parents for raising a young man who can face defeat and friendly mockery with grace and good humor. That will serve him better in life than any amount of upper body strength.
December 22nd, 2013 at 3:27 pm
Except it wasn’t presented as a friendly competition, so it’s easy to read it otherwise.
When you have several readers calling Uncle on something he thought he didn’t mean to write, the problem lies with the writer, not the readers.
Still, good for both of them. They’re both doing something they love, and I hope they keep enjoying it.
December 22nd, 2013 at 3:32 pm
Oh it was all in good fun and friendly. I don’t know that I indicated otherwise.
December 22nd, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Except the title which is in reference to a shirt someone got my kid. The two sports and two athletes are not even comparable.
December 22nd, 2013 at 4:38 pm
Au contraire, the two sports are very comparable. They both require immense physical preparation and work. They both require intense concentration and practice. They both require great coordination, they both require an intense belief that at that moment, on that day, you are better than your opponent.
The sports are different, and require different skill sets, but they are both sports and require many more of the same things!
Having watched two sons play QB at the high school and college level, one of whom would do standing backflips and handsfree walkovers to celebrate TD’s, our admiration for gymnasts is vast.
Bravo to your little girl, and bravo to the young man, who most likely knew he was about to be whupped! Good sports all!
December 22nd, 2013 at 4:42 pm
Hah. I told him he could take consolation in that no gymnast has ever gotten a 5 year, $120M contract.
December 22nd, 2013 at 7:20 pm
So true, greatness is not compensated equally in our world!
December 22nd, 2013 at 7:41 pm
Acctually, if she continues her gymnastics training, she’ll still whoop up on him regardless of age. Pound for pound, gymnasts are some of the strongest athletes regardless of sport. It’s the only sport I recommend for children under 12 years of age, especially for females.
December 22nd, 2013 at 9:44 pm
All I know is that if we’re going to argue that it’s a question of power vs. weight ratio, then if the little lady thought it through and actually competed anyway? That’s a clever lass.
December 22nd, 2013 at 11:26 pm
Indeed, this schoolmate of Olympian gymnast Alicia Sacramone found out the hard way just how strong gymnasts can be:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=g6y3UrPyM-_lsASopYKYDA&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYWDSRjyiuWI&cd=7&ved=0CEIQtwIwBg&usg=AFQjCNEh6-0w1-LOcmea2YYGf6Uaoam5Vg
December 23rd, 2013 at 1:02 am
I don’t know about the rest of you, but this gymnast impresses me.
December 23rd, 2013 at 3:10 am
I bet I could drink them both under the table.
December 24th, 2013 at 12:26 pm
yeah rah rah football players are tough, but watch this
http://www.utrend.tv/v/amazing-girls/
then get Adrian Peterson in some tights and try to duplicate any one of these threes tasks.
just needling guys, but the sports aren’t comparable.