Push-ups: First Lady Michelle Obama vs. Ellen DeGeneres

[Tx4obama]

[mia]

1. What's there not to love?

...unless you're a freeper.

Michelle has beautiful arms!

[dballance]

2. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Her!

How can you not love her? She is so great.

[LostinRed]

3. hahaha

She so much more personable than Callista or Ann, who seem like stepford wives

[itsrobert]

4. Actually, Michelle did not do real pushups

On the way down she stopped short of doing a correct push-up. Ellen had a little better form, put she too should have went down a little further. Both would have failed a Military Physical Fitness Test.

[deacon_sephiroth]

6. wouldn't neccisarily have FAILED,

The PTL would have told her to go down further to break the 90 deg. plane. T
She did about 25 in the video, and if she could do that many PROPERLY, she'd have scored an 8.6/10 in her age catagory
(or at least she would in the AF)

[itsrobert]

8. This is true

Yes, I am sure she would have passed when you put it that way.

[MrMickeysMom]

7. Uh-huh... that wasn't what I viewed...

Michelle didn't necessarily go down as far, but she maintained a straight back, which Ellen has having trouble doing.

Michelle demonstrated a better use of her core stabilization.

Ha!

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. ...

talk about failing

[itsrobert]

10. Failing what?

You care to elaborate or you just going to roll your eyes?

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. Sure.

She is the wife of the Commander-in-Chief of the US military...
She has been a tireless promoter of better health and fitness for kids in America...
She and Jill Biden have done more to improve the lot of military families than many others...

But you criticize the First Lady for doing 'girl' pushups, that wouldn't cut it in boot camp.

Hense the 'eye roll'

[itsrobert]

12. I must have missed it, where did I say 'girl' pushups

I said they weren't considered proper push-ups.

Proper form:




I have seen many men do them incorrectly. I am not getting why you are so bent out of shape for me pointing out they were not proper form. I think you need to step back and not take words out of context and put words into people's mouths.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

13. I didn't see either of them agree to do pushups that would pass a military fitness test

I just saw them challenge each other on how many pushups each of them could do (no specifications as to what kind/caliber/style, etc.)

So applying a "military" standard to the situation may be convenient for having a reason to criticize, but in this case, "military" style push-ups were not specified, so it's kinda irrelevant because that wasn't the original agreement. It was just "pushups", not "pushups that would pass a military fitness test".

Just my .02

[DaveJ]

15. Yeah improper pushups takes the fun out of it

I was expecting a real competition. This is not something I could post on Facebook for my Republican father in law to see, because he would say Michelle was cheating.

But Ellen asked Michelle to compete, so I'd give Michelle some slack for an impromptu contest.

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. "I just stopped" "Oh, and I thought it wouldn't look good to

show up the First Lady"

(And how many GUYS would hug after a push up competition?)

Our First Lady is amazing!

[AtomicKitten]

14. Nobody puts Michelle in the corner.