Professor Does Push-Ups on Upturned Knives

Xie Guanghai, a university professor from Luoyang, central China’s Henan Province, can do 12 push-ups in a row within 40 seconds. He wants to apply for a world record. Already in 1994, Xie achieved two world records – doing 6,012 push-ups in a row, and performing 1,576,500 push-ups in a year.

Oh ya, he also prefers to do push-ups on upturned knives these days. More than that, he claims he’s addicted to it — he cannot help himself.

“Four years ago I started to try these blade push-ups after watching a TV programme where a folk artist climbed up a ladder made of blades,” he explained. “Hopefully I can achieve the record of doing the most push-ups on blades.”

Xie has developed thick calluses on his palms which allow him to do his press-ups without cutting his hands; and he said it took him four years to master his technique of doing press-ups on knives fixed into place on a wooden board. “Along with the growing of my interest in this unusual exercise, the calluses have grown thicker and thicker,” he said.

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