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"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 sp
by 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 agoI'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 agoThe 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 agoI 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.