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Men who can do 40 push-ups are less 96% less at risk of cardiovascular (compared to 10).
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Isn't this categorically false? Hypertrophy training also can increase your strength. Both is best I hear?
Fitness era what say you?
It does not prove that better muscular endurance is better for cardiac health, but ppl who can do 40 push ups are less likely to be overweight, likely to do other exercise and watch there diet.
It is funny how the Air Force is more stringent in it's PRTs than the Navy. Guess that's why we have so many fat chiefs.
Do you have a video of these performed acceptably? Looking at the video in this post, I just can't imagine how that'd look and/or be possible.
those look like military push ups specifically. there's a lot of ways to do a push up
Actually shows a lot of variations later in the video that are great too
I see it as basic hygiene like brushing my teeth and showering. Its been something I've done since freshmen year in high school. Ive always beem more of a cardio focused and never messed with weights until recently so i never really had a gym membership but push ups, sit ups, and running were my thing. That basic physical fitness should be a routine in every able bodied person's life is my context. Maybe not 40 though.
Just dropped and gave the thread 40.
The last 5 were shaky, but I haven't been exercising the way I should be.
The last 5 were shaky, but I haven't been exercising the way I should be.
Doing 40 push-ups doesn't come down to strictly "being in shape". You can visit the gym and focus on building size and still lack the strength to do 40 push-ups. Endurance and strength aren't always linked. I had a friend that looked to be in great shape but couldn't do 15 push-ups or 10 pull-ups. He focused on muscle mass and appearance.
You can condition yourself to doing 40 push-ups in less than a month. It's not difficult if you commit to building up to it. Start slow and increase the number a little bit every other day. Do 10 push-ups on Monday/Tuesday, Wednesday off, and then 15 on Thurs/Friday. You'll get to 40 within 30 days.
You can condition yourself to doing 40 push-ups in less than a month. It's not difficult if you commit to building up to it. Start slow and increase the number a little bit every other day. Do 10 push-ups on Monday/Tuesday, Wednesday off, and then 15 on Thurs/Friday. You'll get to 40 within 30 days.
I'm pretty fit and I still find 40 consecutive to be kind of a challenge. I don't think this is as easy as it sounds on the surface, but it's a great goal to strive for.
With consistency and strength training it's definitely achievable if you're doing a little more each time.
With consistency and strength training it's definitely achievable if you're doing a little more each time.
At least I still have socioeconomic status results on my side vs cardiovascular disease. I think if I could also do 40 pushups I would become immortal, and nobody wants that.
What I think is funny is how the requirements can drop down to 33/min for requalification!
Seriously. Pull ups, not those body momentum ones, but old school gym class pull-ups are harder than people think.
Nah, anyone who has served in the military (Army) knows you gotta hit 75 in 2 minutes during the physical fitness test every quarter
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that range of motion is pretty tiny, isn't it? Like... does that do much? I was always told to go for full range of motion.
Talking specifically about pushups, I always experienced best results by keeping my reps at 20, and adding weight (45 on my upper back). Once you can do 3 sets of 20 with 70lbs of weight, your body weight pushups will be crazy.
In general weight training, I've found that high weight/low reps and low weight/high reps (15-20) are simply different roads to similar results.
Yikes. I guess I'll have a heart attack soon. I can do 20-25 no problem but 40 would be a struggle and my arms would fall off after.
That's like 3% of the entire population lol. 40 proper ones is most definitely not 'easy' for 90% of people.
Early on, 15-30 yeah. After 30, though, the plateau effect is real!
I'd bet that's the ROM that 95% of the posters in this thread hit. If you go to 1:16 in the same video you can see the PTL demonstrating the way you're supposed to be doing them. Most PT tests now are administered by having two test takers buddy up, count for each other, and report their numbers to the PTL. So what happens is you have people breaking form and still getting credit, because you don't want to screw your buddy over.
That's what I thought. I can't imagine what 44 good ones in a minute would look like, that's why I was asking in the first place.
Makes sense.
Sorry, I wasn't very precise. I was talking about strength trainning (be it 5 rep max or 8-12 rep hypertrophy) as opposed to trying to do as many as push ups as possible.
I'm relieved the cutoff is 40, because that's about my limit these days. I'm getting old. Everything is harder than it used to be. But at least I'm all wise now.
Yeah there is a lot of fudging the numbers going on in PRTs, but most people don't care about it too much because while it is easy to cheat the push ups and sit ups, you can't really cheat the mile and a half run. And if you can't pass the run you clearly couldn't pass the push ups and sit ups either.
Before I stopped doing them daily, I was at 35. Honestly, getting to 40 is not easy. My weight hasn't changed since high school so it's not like I'm out of shape either.
People saying it's easy are either in the 1% of people that are very fit or they haven't ever seen a proper push-up like shown in this video. Given the statiscally unlikely scenario of this amount of people in this forum being part of that 1%, i feel safe in saying most people here have no idea what they're talking about lol, especially the ones going "if you can't do it as an adult then lmao". And the legit 1% (it's probably more than 1% since 40 push ups is not some crazy impossible feat of fitness but you get the point) of people that do it with proper form know better than to say it's easy too lol. This thread is funny. I can do it but i've been working out for 8 years non stop now. And i wouldn't say it's easy.
I think you guys are focusing on the wrong half of this comparison. I think it is more to say that someone who can only do 10 push-ups is much more unhealthy than someone who has a baseline level of health demonstrated by the 40. Not if you do 40 push-ups you're some sort of athletic freak. If you can't manage 10, you likely have some sort of underlying medical condition that could be a contributing factor.
Definitely, it takes a lot of physical training to get to that point. When you first start basic training they give you a mock PT test to see where your at, at a physical level. Then over the course of 9 weeks they smoke you to the point of muscle failure every day, then at the end they give you your first official test and the scores are so vastly different it's like two different people
The Army maxes out at 75 reps.
I tried it yesterday and got it. The only break you can take is by arching your back but keeping the weight on your arms. I took a break after 55, then banged out the last 20.
I tried it yesterday and got it. The only break you can take is by arching your back but keeping the weight on your arms. I took a break after 55, then banged out the last 20.