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Better summary "if you can do a push-up sprint and complete 41 pushups in less than 33 seconds without pausing you're in pretty good shape and btw you're 96% le

Better summary "if you can do a push-up sprint and complete 41 pushups in less than 33 seconds without pausing you're in pretty good shape and btw you're 96% less likely to get heart disease in the next 10 years than someone that can't keep that pace up for even 10 pushups." The most important sentence. "For push-ups, the firefighter was instructed to begin push-ups in time with a metronome set at 80 beats per minute. Clinic staff counted the number of push-ups completed until the participant reached 80, missed 3 or more beats of the metronome, or stopped owing to exhaustion or other symptoms (dizziness, lightheadedness, chest pain, or shortness of breath)." This was a combined strength/cardiovascular test. You had to book it. Only the firefighters that

solarmist 8y ago
"metronome set at 80 beats per minute ... until the participant reached 80, missed 3 or more beats of the metronome, or stopped" This is literally a push-up sprint. For comparison the US Army requires 42 pushups over 2 minutes (120 seconds) with any amount of pauses (to meet minimum standards) and maxes out at 71 push ups in 2 minutes. The people I knew who were maxing out their PT tests weren't hitting anywhere near this pace and I suspect only a handful of them could.
- Ntrails 8y ago
  I've never even tried to do pushups at that sort of pace, i was always taught that the lower should be slow/controlled and the raise fast/explosive. It really does sound like something you would need to train pretty specifically for to complete when the reality is that just being fit is the metric for lower risk of heart disease
- tgb 8y ago
  The other detail is what they counted as a pushup. My understanding is the military is pretty strict and most gym-goers aren't. Having your arms out perpendicular to torso is noticeably easier than tucking then in towards your chest and there's a range of places one might stop at. At that pace, I think you'd be doing doing fairly shallow pushups. Or maybe I'm just making excuses for not being able to do this.
  - Mountain_Skies 8y ago
    I wonder about this too. During all of my PE classes in elementary and high school a pushup didn't count unless your nose touched the ground and you came all the way back up. Pushups I see all over the place now, from tv shows to YouTube videos to folks in the gym are incredibly shallow, often only dipping down a few inches from the top position. Just as pullups and chin-ups are different things, perhaps these shallow pushups should have a different name to distinguish them from "to the floor" pushups.
mateo1 8y ago
Another thing to remember is how this is a fact detached from reality. It seems to imply that if you manage to train hard enough, you will have lower chances of dying. But in reality if you are in the "high chances of heart attack" group, the training might be the thing that kills you, which is why being able to do the push-ups is a good indicator of having low chances of heart attack... This type of studies is just useless
Space_Lord_ 8y ago
You get more uprons if you say that doing 40 pushups cures Leukemia though.

solarmist 8y ago

"metronome set at 80 beats per minute ... until the participant reached 80, missed 3 or more beats of the metronome, or stopped" This is literally a push-up sprint. For comparison the US Army requires 42 pushups over 2 minutes (120 seconds) with any amount of pauses (to meet minimum standards) and maxes out at 71 push ups in 2 minutes. The people I knew who were maxing out their PT tests weren't hitting anywhere near this pace and I suspect only a handful of them could.

Ntrails 8y ago
I've never even tried to do pushups at that sort of pace, i was always taught that the lower should be slow/controlled and the raise fast/explosive. It really does sound like something you would need to train pretty specifically for to complete when the reality is that just being fit is the metric for lower risk of heart disease
tgb 8y ago
The other detail is what they counted as a pushup. My understanding is the military is pretty strict and most gym-goers aren't. Having your arms out perpendicular to torso is noticeably easier than tucking then in towards your chest and there's a range of places one might stop at. At that pace, I think you'd be doing doing fairly shallow pushups. Or maybe I'm just making excuses for not being able to do this.
- Mountain_Skies 8y ago
  I wonder about this too. During all of my PE classes in elementary and high school a pushup didn't count unless your nose touched the ground and you came all the way back up. Pushups I see all over the place now, from tv shows to YouTube videos to folks in the gym are incredibly shallow, often only dipping down a few inches from the top position. Just as pullups and chin-ups are different things, perhaps these shallow pushups should have a different name to distinguish them from "to the floor" pushups.

mateo1 8y ago

Another thing to remember is how this is a fact detached from reality. It seems to imply that if you manage to train hard enough, you will have lower chances of dying. But in reality if you are in the "high chances of heart attack" group, the training might be the thing that kills you, which is why being able to do the push-ups is a good indicator of having low chances of heart attack... This type of studies is just useless

Space_Lord_ 8y ago

You get more uprons if you say that doing 40 pushups cures Leukemia though.