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    How many joules expended for a push up?

    In a push up, you do not lift the entire body. You lift the head by 50 cm, the arms by 40 cm, the chest by 30 cm … and the toe tips don’t move at all. Assuming that the weight is distributed equally along the length of the body, I therefor added a correction factor of 0.5: 80 kg * 9.8 N/kg *...
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