Fingertip push ups fact or fiction....

[mj-hi-yah]

One of the students in our school was telling us the other day that doing fingertip push ups can MAKE YOU GO BLIND!!! :xtrmshock He was saying that he heard that it affects a nerve that goes to the eye. I had never heard this before and do those push ups all the time. :uhohh: Has anyone else ever heard of this?

 

[Cruentus]

One of the students in our school was telling us the other day that doing fingertip push ups can MAKE YOU GO BLIND!!! :xtrmshock He was saying that he heard that it affects a nerve that goes to the eye. I had never heard this before and do those push ups all the time. :uhohh: Has anyone else ever heard of this?

My mom told me that it can also make your palms hairy.

Yours,

Stifler

 

[mj-hi-yah]

My mom told me that it can also make your palms hairy.

Yours,

Stifler

LOL :lol: sure we're talking about the same thing here?

 

[Bammx2]

can I do "finger tips" till I only need glasses?!

 

[Littledragon]

One of the students in our school was telling us the other day that doing fingertip push ups can MAKE YOU GO BLIND!!! :xtrmshock He was saying that he heard that it affects a nerve that goes to the eye. I had never heard this before and do those push ups all the time. :uhohh: Has anyone else ever heard of this?

Is this the joke of the day thread?? LOL

Nope thats not true at all.

Tarek

 

[white eagle]

I know that you can go blind doing other thingsBut push ups Mmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[MA-Caver]

That does it! That just plain tears it! I'm giving up exercise! I've already got glasses, no need to make my eyes worse huh??

 

[Touch Of Death]

One of the students in our school was telling us the other day that doing fingertip push ups can MAKE YOU GO BLIND!!! :xtrmshock He was saying that he heard that it affects a nerve that goes to the eye. I had never heard this before and do those push ups all the time. :uhohh: Has anyone else ever heard of this?

I think that person was making a joke about the uses of your fingert tips but I have heard that streatching can bring on alzheimers because the act of stretching releases the same chemicals found in abundance with the alzheimer patients.
Sean

 

[mj-hi-yah]

I think that person was making a joke about the uses of your fingert tips but I have heard that streatching can bring on alzheimers because the act of stretching releases the same chemicals found in abundance with the alzheimer patients.
Sean

Sean GET OUT! really????? Not sure what to believe anymore. Because I used to practice yoga :uhoh: , oh well at least I won't be aware of the Alzheimer's! :lol:
Anyway, I'm not kidding with this question, because he is a fairly serious person and was dead serious when he told the class...I'll hopefully see him Tuesday night and ask him where he heard that.

 

[mj-hi-yah]

That does it! That just plain tears it! I'm giving up exercise! I've already got glasses, no need to make my eyes worse huh??

Hee hee he...no not all exercises....just that exercise. Looks like I'll have to try and find a source for ya guys on this...you're all very funny though!:lol:

 

[Tripitaka of AA]

I'm going to assume that "this guy" was referring to the kind of press-ups that require two people ... although traditional theory has always been that it was only certain "solitary" exercises that brought on blindness.

Of course, he could have been using a metaphor... suggesting that too much focus on one exercise can cause "tunnel-vision" and lead a student down a "blind alley". You will let us know what he says, won't you...

 

[8253]

Thats funny lol :uhyeah:

 

[mj-hi-yah]

I'm going to assume that "this guy" was referring to the kind of press-ups that require two people ... although traditional theory has always been that it was only certain "solitary" exercises that brought on blindness.

Of course, he could have been using a metaphor... suggesting that too much focus on one exercise can cause "tunnel-vision" and lead a student down a "blind alley". You will let us know what he says, won't you...

I should have foreseen this, but some of you people are so bad :uhyeah: ...here's what I'm going to try to do...I'll send him this link and see if he'd be willing:apv: join this conversation himself...if not :idunno: maybe I should have this thread nuked :shock:

 

[Littledragon]

One of the students in our school was telling us the other day that doing fingertip push ups can MAKE YOU GO BLIND!!! :xtrmshock He was saying that he heard that it affects a nerve that goes to the eye. I had never heard this before and do those push ups all the time. :uhohh: Has anyone else ever heard of this?

Just how old was this guy?? :uhohh:

 

[mj-hi-yah]

Just how old was this guy?? :uhohh:

He's I think 25...and a very good person - he teaches history to Jr High kids. He is responsible and reliable. I just sent off the link to him...so now we wait!

 

[Littledragon]

He's I think 25...and a very good person - he teaches history to Jr High kids. He is responsible and reliable. I just sent off the link to him...so now we wait!

Hmmm... But really that is not true on what he said lol.

 

[7starmantis]

Not any kind of expert here, but in all my time as a paramedic, a lab technologist and now in Physical Therapy school, I've never heard anything like that before. Don’t know if that helps, but I don’t really see how it could be true.

I could be very wrong though, I guess....
7sm

 

[Cruentus]

I think that person was making a joke about the uses of your fingert tips but I have heard that streatching can bring on alzheimers because the act of stretching releases the same chemicals found in abundance with the alzheimer patients.
Sean

What are we talking about again?

[goes back to the butterfly stretch]

 

[mj-hi-yah]

Not any kind of expert here, but in all my time as a paramedic, a lab technologist and now in Physical Therapy school, I've never heard anything like that before. Don’t know if that helps, but I don’t really see how it could be true.

I could be very wrong though, I guess....
7sm

That's good to know I really like doing that type of push ups your info is constructive. I promise I'll let you all know if it's for real or not.:idunno:

 

[terryl965]

Mj-hi-yah in my 40+ years in the Arts I've never heard of that and I have been doing finger push-ups for all those years. I do wear glasses now but I think that is because of age not the push-ups.... GOD BLESS AMERICA