Re: (TFT) Goblin port

[Ross Gottlieb <baron43@att.net>]

I don't know how old these "kids" are that you are referring to, but, my 6-year old son, can do 30 fingertip pushups, Max. And about 50-60 regular pushups when he's maxing out. When he does his "official" workout, he does 7 sets of 30 regular pushups in about 15 minutes. But, he is a good athlete!

Jay Carlisle <Jay_Carlisle@charter.net> wrote:

>Getting back to athletics for a bit.
>
>More on the u.s. army's 6-12 conditioning project circa 1970's.
>This is a fitness development program developed for indoors.
>It's divided into age and fitness groupings.
>It has 3 fitness levels for each age group.
>The 6-12 refers to a group of 6 exercises performed over a 12 minuet period.
>There are six groups of 6 exercises in total and the grouping is such that 
>someone is expected to start the first group at the lowest fitness level 'C' 
>for one week and progress a level a week reaching level 'A' of group six in 
>18 weeks.
>Each exercise is performed over a period from 1 to 6 minuets total.
>From my experience with the thing (10 weeks into it) the idea is to complete 
>the 12 minuets without being winded. i.e. very low fST.
>I'd hoped to use the exercise groupings for timing "odd" movements of 
>Figures.
>Of the six exercises in a group each of the six in the group are related to 
>the others in the group.
>All the first exercises are types of "jumping jacks".
>All of the second exercises are types of push-ups. (group 1 is push-ups from 
>the knees, group 6 are clap push-ups)
>The third group are sit-ups.
>Etc.
>I'm not going to be able to extract much in the way of timing single 
>movements from all this, but it will tell me something about the overall 
>fitness level of Units as a whole.
>A Tevis trained Calvary Unit running the actual race only finishes about 
>half the Unit.
>Huw has problems if he out performs the rest of his Unit in reaching the 
>battle ahead of the Calvary.
>What I can glean outta this work is a vague idea of the movements a Figure 
>in good shape ought to be able to perform over a large group of turns w/o 
>expending fST.
>The actual time intervals are somewhat surprising.
>8 seconds per clap push-up, 2 seconds per jack-knife sit-up at 17 to 29 year 
>old level A.
>A "kid" can only do 0.625 push-ups in a TFT turn, even WITH a clap?
>Of course there are 631 reps to be completed over the 12 min. but that's 
>still kinda slow.
>Then again the kid ain't blowing hard afterwards.
>i.e. unlike Euw after his 2 hours, these kids have some reserves to fight 
>with after the effort.
>Opinions from the non-couch potatoe crowd?
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