Can you do 40 press ups ?
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Apparently its a good, simple indicator of hearth health, being able to do 10 or more is good news and 40 is exceptional ?
https://www.nhs.uk/news/heart-and-lungs/struggling...
I never really do them but I do go to the gym and lift weights but its a really good exercise and one I think I will do a few of more regularly.
I thought I should be able to and I just tried and did 40 fairly easily with decent form, could have done another 10 or more but there was a hint of tonights tea coming up
large pile of salad with loads of raw onion that seems to have been sat in my throat since 6.30.
Scary that there are plenty of chaps that cant do 10 press ups, I am no athlete and am a bit overweight but that is pretty bad if 10 is beyond you, obviously allowing for muscular or skeletal injuries.
https://www.nhs.uk/news/heart-and-lungs/struggling...
I never really do them but I do go to the gym and lift weights but its a really good exercise and one I think I will do a few of more regularly.
I thought I should be able to and I just tried and did 40 fairly easily with decent form, could have done another 10 or more but there was a hint of tonights tea coming up
large pile of salad with loads of raw onion that seems to have been sat in my throat since 6.30.Scary that there are plenty of chaps that cant do 10 press ups, I am no athlete and am a bit overweight but that is pretty bad if 10 is beyond you, obviously allowing for muscular or skeletal injuries.
J4CKO said:
Scary that there are plenty of chaps that cant do 10 press ups, I am no athlete and am a bit overweight but that is pretty bad if 10 is beyond you, obviously allowing for muscular or skeletal injuries.
I struggle to do two. Mixture of over weight and weak arms. It's weird as my arms put muscle on fairly quickly, but I just can't do them. I was looking at joining the army and you needed to do 40 (I think) in two minutes, similar amount of sit ups. I could do the sit ups pretty much from day one. Press ups I was f
ked. Just couldn't do them to save my life!thebraketester said:
Load of nonsense surely. I could have terrible cardiovascular health and have strong arms and be able to do 40 press ups or more
No?
You could, but there's a correlation between push ups and heart health. There's also one between grip strength and heart health, and ankle bracelets and STDs...No?
I never do press-ups but train in the gym regularly and do some form of exercise at least 6 days a week, a mate recently challenged me to see if I could do 40 (I assume he had seen a similar article) and I could only just about do it, the first 25 or so were pretty easy but after about 35 it got very tough
I presume this is using a body flat, nose to floor form, not the sort of thing where people seem to only have a 2 inch range of motion?
I presume this is using a body flat, nose to floor form, not the sort of thing where people seem to only have a 2 inch range of motion?
J4CKO said:
Scary that there are plenty of chaps that cant do 10 press ups, I am no athlete and am a bit overweight but that is pretty bad if 10 is beyond you, obviously allowing for muscular or skeletal injuries.
I've always struggled to do 10 press ups and I even did back when I was a teenager. I can run six miles a week no problem at all though(did a half marathon a few years ago), I've never been to the gym or lifted weights though and I guess that would help a lot if I did that. I remember working with a chap who could do 50 press ups easily(really quick too) and I thought that it was very impressive because I was so crap at them!
thebraketester said:
Load of nonsense surely. I could have terrible cardiovascular health and have strong arms and be able to do 40 press ups or more
No?
My cardio is generally fairly good - I can easily do a sub 7 minute 2k row, which I've seen claimed as being a good reference for being "fit". But think I'd struggle to do 40 press ups in one go - maybe just about do 30.No?
So these claims are a load of b
ks. Bit like the sitting/standing test which can "estimate how long you will live" - by that standard my mother in law should have died 30 years back, but she's still going fairly well at 91.All these kind of things are rough indicators that are broadly accurate ON AVERAGE. A bit like BMI. BMI is mostly irrelevant if you carry a lot of muscle mass and not much fat, but that is a tiny minority of the population; on average, it is a good indicator.
(I am told that simple old waist size is a decent indicator of various health risk factors.)
FWIW, I expect I could do 40 press ups. But I could probably double however many I can do in about a month if I trained for reps. That is another flaw with this kind of thing - if you train specifically for the test, you make the outcome less relevant!
(I am told that simple old waist size is a decent indicator of various health risk factors.)
FWIW, I expect I could do 40 press ups. But I could probably double however many I can do in about a month if I trained for reps. That is another flaw with this kind of thing - if you train specifically for the test, you make the outcome less relevant!
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