Try this pushup fitness/strength test - Submit your top times here!!

This is a stupid test, similar to that you see in physical education classes at my high school. Similar to the "most push ups in a minute" its normally pretty much whoever is most competitive and thinks they are doing it right but arent doing it at all properly......... but for the sake of aiding that competitive edge my best time awhile ago was around 1 minute, i will try it another time and post.

this wasnt easy, quite a shock

lasted 40 seconds and will endeavour to reach 60 seconds

thanks for this. Another stupid test to get me motivated

weighing in at 225 aint easy

Just wasted 4 and a half minutes of my life. Stopped because I felt the same at 4 and a half as I did after 1 minute and didn't want to waste any more time. Weight is in the 160's at 5'10". Much more of a strength oriented athlete than an endurance athlete, unfortunately. This probably corresponds to amount of push ups you can do, right now an all out set sees about 115 clean ones.

We used to do this when I was in the Army years ago except with a twist: we moved back and forth at the shoulder. We held it for 20-30seconds and then pushed up and repeated 20 times. This was only one of many such exercises we did 5 in the morning every morning.

It gets you extremely strong without bulking you up.

We used to do this when I was in the Army years ago except with a twist: we moved back and forth at the shoulder. We held it for 20-30seconds and then pushed up and repeated 20 times. This was only one of many such exercises we did 5 in the morning every morning.

It gets you extremely strong without bulking you up.

35 minutes, then I ripped out 30 reps. It wasn't hard at all.

Semper Fi do or die.

Don't know if it's true of not, but I heard the Wisconsin Women's Cross Country team did something similar to this a few years back.

held it for 60 seconds and that was about it. Pretty tough. I wiegh around 180 and 6'2".

70 seconds. I was shaking like a leaf the entire time. I'm 5'10 and 145 lbs.

75 seconds. Oorah.

Don't know if it's true of not, but I heard the Wisconsin Women's Cross Country team did something similar to this a few years back.[/quote]

Not true. Although we did do some hellish workouts on the track.

87 seconds...arms shook quite a bit.

171 pounds.

(weight 169lbs, height 6'1") 3 sets of 5 minutes w/5 min. rest between. I am on the verge of being put into a straight jacket at my gym for my repertoire of unorthodox workouts. Oh!, the horrors of a life devoid of running... Next week will shoot for 8 minutes. We used to do these when I was in the Merchant Marines. They are warm respite after super slow pushups done to the count of some meathead from Jacksonville- "Dooooowwwwnnnn...(pause 5 seconds)....Uuuuupppp...(pause 5 seconds)...repeat

Great times, you guys beat me though, you annoy me now. I will try it tomorrow I think, I will break my pr.