Pushups vs. benchpress

Awl,

You can verify, by doing a pushup on a bathroom scale, that a pushup is
about "equivalent" to benching 2/3 of your bodyweight--a little more w/ arms
collapsed.
But here's the Q:
Why do pushups feel *so much different* than a bp? Peculiarly, in both
ways:
At lighter weights, ie, an inclined pushup, the pushup feels harder.
At the full pushup, the equivalent bench feels harder.

Anyone else experience this?
I know the arguments about ancillary stabilizing muscles, etc., but I don't
know if that explains all.
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:57:19 -0500, "Proctologically Violated©®"
<entropic3.14decay@optonline2.718.net> wrote:

>Awl,
>
>You can verify, by doing a pushup on a bathroom scale, that a pushup is
>about "equivalent" to benching 2/3 of your bodyweight--a little more w/ arms
>collapsed.
>But here's the Q:
>Why do pushups feel *so much different* than a bp? Peculiarly, in both
>ways:
>At lighter weights, ie, an inclined pushup, the pushup feels harder.
>At the full pushup, the equivalent bench feels harder.
>
>Anyone else experience this?
>I know the arguments about ancillary stabilizing muscles, etc., but I don't
>know if that explains all.

I always thought it was the grip and angle of movement.